NORWICH, England (UPI) — A British scientist says he’s developed a mathematical model that suggests the odds of finding life on another Earth-like planet are very low. University of East Anglia Professor Andrew Watson said an evolutionary limit is the habitability of Earth-like planets that will end as their star brightens. Scientists say the future […]

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CLEVELAND (UPI) — U.S. biologists say a Swinhoe’s soft-shell turtle — thought to be extinct in nature — has been found in northern Vietnam. Vietnam researchers, sponsored by the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo and the Cleveland Zoological Society, identified the only known specimen living in the wild of the critically endangered giant soft-shell turtle Rafetus swinhoei. […]

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OTTAWA (UPI) — Canada became the first country to declare the widely used chemical bisphenol A unsuitable for use in baby bottles and set a ban mechanism in motion Friday. Health Minister Tony Clement and Environment Minister John Baird made the announcement in Ottawa, and said there will 60 days of public consultations before further […]

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MEMPHIS (UPI) — A U.S. study has revealed the basis of childhood leukemia resistance to the anti-cancer drug methotrexate. Scientists at the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital say their findings provide new insights into the genomic basis of methotrexate resistance and differences in methotrexate response. The researchers said their study — the first analysis of […]

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MINNEAPOLIS (UPI) — U.S. scientists say they’ve made a discovery that might lead to new treatments for central nervous system maladies such as Parkinson’s disease. Researchers led by Karen Mesce and Joshua Puhl of the University of Minnesota discovered it’s possible the human nervous system — within each segment of the spinal cord — might […]

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I am sharing this to all of you guys esp. to those who are using Windows XP..I am still using till now..I guess this is just a very important info..here it is!! Users Fight to Save Windows XP By JESSICA MINTZ, AP Technology Writer Mon Apr 14, 7:49 AM ET SEATTLE – Microsoft Corp.‘s operating […]

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This is quite interesting to share about!! got it in yahoo tech news..bloggers were badly attacked by trojan virus last month, so I believed that these tips are very useful..done some of it last month..it really worked.. here it is!! Wed Apr 2, 2008 11:46AM EDT The last time I wrote a piece on how […]

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WASHINGTON (UPI) — The U.S. space agency announced Tuesday it is extending the Cassini-Huygens mission — scheduled to end in July — by two years. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said the spacecraft’s stunning discoveries and images of Saturn have revolutionized our knowledge of that planet and its moons. The two-year extension will include […]

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EVANSTON, Ill. (UPI) — Quantum computing is currently mostly fodder for science fiction writers, but U.S. scientists say they’ve moved one step closer to realizing that technology. Northwestern University Professor Prem Kumar said he and his colleagues recently demonstrated one of the basic building blocks for distributed quantum computing: using entangled photons generated in optical […]

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FORT COLLINS, Colo. (UPI) — U.S. hurricane experts William Gray and Philip Klotzbach say they expect a busy 2008 Atlantic hurricane season, with as many as 15 named storms. The Colorado State University scientists in their April forecast said they also anticipate an above average probability of major hurricanes making landfall in the United States. […]

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