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[Doctors and lawyers fight over ownership of meteorite from asteroid belt - 07 Feb 2010 Late last month Marc Gallini got out of his chair in his medical examination room when a chunk of meteorite smashed through the roof and hit the spot where he would have been sitting, had a patient not just cancelled his appointment.... [Anne Hathaway and the joy of particle physics - 07 Feb 2010 The thinking person's movie star Anne Hathaway is on a tireless quest to present herself as the thinking person's thinking movie star, as she discourses on particle physics in GQ. You might recall that her previous longterm boyfriend was Raffaello Follieri, who told her he was "the chief financial officer of the Vatican". Back then, interviewers would get the lecture about charity work being ...... [Residents see the light and form solar support group - 07 Feb 2010 One man's idea for a solar energy plant on the Hay Plains is now a community-led initiative.... [Hubble shows Pluto 'going redder' - 04 Feb 2010 Nasa scientists say that dwarf planet Pluto, on the edge of our solar system, is becoming increasingly red.... [Monarch butterflies reveal a novel way in which animals sense Earth's magnetic field - 27 Jan 2010 Building on prior investigation into the biological mechanisms through which monarch butterflies are able to migrate up to 2,000 miles from eastern North America to a particular forest in Mexico each year, neurobiologists have linked two related photoreceptor proteins found in butterflies to animal navigation using the Earth's magnetic field....	[Pupils shown fun of science - 29 Jan 2010 FIRST year pupils at an East Lothian secondary school have taken part in a programme of events designed to make them consider a career in science.... [Quantum theory via 40-tonne trucks: How science writing became popular - 16 Jan 2010 Richard Feynman was arguably the greatest post-war American physicist. He worked on the Manhattan Project to build an atomic bomb and won the Nobel Prize for his work on the theory of quantum electrodynamics which, by describing how light interacts with matter, explains pretty much all everyday phenomena, from the way that sunlight glints on a lake to the attraction that glues together the atoms ......	[Funding of Labour home care cancer plan questioned by critics - 08 Feb 2010 A Labour plan for every cancer patient to have one to one care in their homes has been called into questioned by opposition parties who said the Government has failed to explain how it will be funded.... [Emergency admissions due to child diabetes 'shocking' - 08 Feb 2010 More than 3,300 children are admitted to A and E each year for complications caused by diabetes, figures showed today.... [Industrial cleaner linked to increased risk of Parkinson's disease - 07 Feb 2010 Workers exposed to tricholorethylene, a chemical once widely used to clean metal such as auto parts, may be at a significantly higher risk of developing Parkinson's disease, according to a new study.... [The 10th Delhi Sustainable Development Summit - 05 Feb 2010 The Delhi Sustainable Development Summit is a unique high level global forum organised by TERI for the analysis and debate on some of the most crucial environmental and climate change challenges being faced by humanity at large.... [DNA test reveals the origins of the species of Charles Darwin - 04 Feb 2010 Charles Darwin's ancient ancestors were among the first group of Homo sapiens to leave Africa, a DNA analysis has revealed.... [3-D scaffold provides clean, biodegradable structure for stem cell growth - 03 Feb 2010 A natural material derived from crustacean shell and algae supports the growth of human embryonic stem cells.... [Genetically-Modified Tomato Stays Fresh For SIX WEEKS - 02 Feb 2010 What's Your Reaction' Tomatoes genetically modified to stay fresh for 30 days longer have been developed by scientists. The breakthrough could apply to other fruit - including bananas - after the chemicals that make it go soft were identified.... [New Species of Tyrannosaur Discovered in Southwestern U.S. - 01 Feb 2010 A new species of tyrannosaur has been discovered in the Bisti/De-na-zin Wilderness of New Mexico. Bistahieversor was different from other tyrannosauroids in having an extra opening above its eye, a complex joint at its "forehead," and a keel along its lower jaw; it also had more teeth than its distant relative T. rex.... [Paul Ehrlich, 1908 - 01 Feb 2010 The German scientist who discovered a cure for syphilis became known before that as a co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine.... [Dog genome researchers track paw prints of selective breeding - 18 Jan 2010 Researchers gave identified 155 regions on the dog genome that appear to have been influenced by selective breeding. Although dogs have been domesticated for 14,000 years, their spectacular diversity originated over the past several centuries through intense artificial selection....


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