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| Phoenix Mars Lander Explores Site by Trenching |
| Thursday, August 21, 2008 - NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander scientists and engineers are continuing to dig into the area around the lander with the spacecraft's robotic arm, looking for new materials to analyze and examining the soil and ice subsurface structure. |
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| Sperm Whales in Gulf Seemingly Unaffected by Distant Seismic Sounds |
| Thursday, August 21, 2008 - A six-year study on sperm whales in the Gulf of Mexico - designed to learn more about their abundance, migration patterns and behavior - suggests that long-range seismic sounds associated with oil and gas exploration and production don`t significantly affect the whales` movement at distances greater than five kilometers, or about three miles. |
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| Scientists uncover molecule that keeps pathogens like salmonella in check |
| Thursday, August 21, 2008 - Scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found a potential new way to stop the bacteria that cause gastroenteritis, tularemia and severe diarrhea from making people sick. |
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| New clues to air circulation in the atmosphere |
| Thursday, August 21, 2008 - Air circulates above the Earth in four distinct cells, with two either side of the equator, says new research. The new observational study describes how air rises and falls in the atmosphere above the Earth's surface, creating the world's weather. |
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| Research shows pollsters how the undecided will vote |
| Thursday, August 21, 2008 - As the American Presidential election approaches, pollsters are scrambling to predict who will win. A study by a team of researchers at The University of Western Ontario, Canada, and the University of Padova, Italy, may give pollsters a new way to determine how the undecided will vote, even before the voters know themselves. |
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| Helping the medicine go down |
| Thursday, August 21, 2008 - Getting little Doug and Debbie to take a spoonful of medicine is more than just a rite of passage for frustrated parents. Children's refusal to swallow liquid medication ? and their tendency to vomit it back up ? is an important public health problem that means longer or more serious illness for thousands of kids each year. In the case of HIV and AIDS pediatrics, missing a dose can be a life or death scenario. |
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| NIST WTC 7 Investigation Finds Building Fires Caused Collapse |
| Thursday, August 21, 2008 - The fall of the 47-story World Trade Center building 7 (WTC 7) in New York City late in the afternoon of Sept. 11, 2001, was primarily due to fires, the Commerce Department`s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced today following an extensive, three-year scientific and technical building and fire safety investigation. This was the first known instance of fire causing the total collapse of a tall building, the agency stated as it released for public comment its WTC invest |
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| 25 year old message in a bottle reunited with its owner |
| Thursday, August 21, 2008 - As an eleven year old boy in 1985, Donald Wylie tossed a bottle into the Orkney sea, with a message asking its finder to track him down. Almost a quarter of a century later, Donald will be reunited with the bottle which eventually washed up hundreds of miles away on the West Sands in St Andrews |
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| Robots Detect Behavioral Cues to Follow Humans |
| Thursday, August 21, 2008 - Robots can be ironic. Even though they might not have emotions of their own, they can still detect and respond to humans` emotions. A recent study has shown that, by picking up on human emotional traits, as well as a variety of other conscious and unconscious behavioral cues, robots may be able to act more naturally and accurately with humans. |
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| 'Clock ticking' on global warming: UN climate chief |
| Thursday, August 21, 2008 - Time is running out in the fight against global warming, the UN's top climate change official warned as a new round of UN talks got started here Thursday. |
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