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14 hrs ago | KansasCity.com

Scientist may be forced to NYC terror ties hearing

Siddiqui has reported seeing her children in her jail cell and has stated she died after being strip-searched.Prosecutors accuse Siddiqui of having ties to al-Qaida and say she grabbed a U.S. Army officer's M-4 rifle in Afghanistan, pointed it at an Army captain and cried "Allahu akbar," Arabic for "God is great." They say she fired at U.S.

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Related Topix: Brandeis University, Psychology, Science

22 hrs ago | Odessa American Online

Nuclear engineering grant

UT Permian Basin's nuclear engineering program received notice last week that it successfully obtained a $100,000 grant from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for the HT3R reactor program.

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Related Topix: Nuclear Energy, University of Texas of the Permian Basin, Purdue University

Sat Jul 04, 2009

UPI

Study: H1N1 flu spreads inefficiently

Influenza A H1N1, the swine flu virus, has so far spread from person to person less effectively than other seasonal flu viruses, U.S. researchers found.

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Medicine, Influenza, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Fri Jul 03, 2009

MediLexicon

Scientists Investigate Severity And Spread Of New H1N1 Swine Flu Virus

Main Category: Swine Flu Also Included In: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Flu / Cold / SARS Article Date: 03 Jul 2009 Scientists in the US and the Netherlands discovered what most doctors already suspected: the new H1N1 swine flu virus causes more severe infection than seasonal flu, but the two groups disagreed on how easily it spreads, ...

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Related Topix: Cambridge, MA, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Health

Kansas City Star

Missile experts see Soviet parts in NKorean rocket

With concerns rising about a possible North Korean long-range missile test this weekend, two independent scientists say the rogue regime may be using an old Soviet ballistic missile to boost a rocket capable of reaching the West Coast of the United States.North Korea is not known to have nuclear warheads and faces years of research and testing ...

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Related Topix: North Korea, World News, Asia, Seattle Metro

Thu Jul 02, 2009

McClatchy DC

Congress' apology for slavery just proves it's hard to say sorry

Lawmakers here are learning the hard way that trying to apologize for historic injustices isn't as easy as saying "I'm sorry." The Senate found that out two weeks ago when it passed a resolution calling on the U.S. to apologize formally for more than three centuries of enslavement and segregation of African-Americans. Senators thought they'd done ...

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Related Topix: US News, African-American, John Lewis, US Politics, US House of Representatives, Democrat, US Military, US Army

Wed Jul 01, 2009

The Modesto Bee

DNA's repair system studied in hopes of better cancer treatments

For a human cell, this is a scary world. Each of the 60 trillion or so cells in the average person's body is damaged tens of thousands, perhaps a million, times a day, scientists say.

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Related Topix: Biology, Startups, The DNA Repair Company, Cambridge, MA

PhysOrg Weblog

Computer-Guided Nanoparticle Therapy Destroys Tumors

Gold nanoshells are among the most promising new nanoscale therapeutics being developed to kill tumors, acting as antennas that turn light energy into heat that cooks cancer to death.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Nanotechnology, UC San Diego

Tue Jun 30, 2009

KVIA-TV El Paso

Obese Get Higher Doses of Radiation for X-Rays

People who are overweight and obese are usually given higher-than-normal doses of radiation in order to obtain usable X-ray images, even though the long-term effects are unknown, new research contends.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, The X-Rays, Radiology, Medicine

Mon Jun 29, 2009

Physics Blog

New biomarker method could increase the number of diagnostic tests for cancer

A team of researchers, including several from UCSF, has demonstrated that a new method for detecting and quantifying protein biomarkers in body fluids may ultimately make it possible to screen multiple biomarkers in hundreds of patient samples, thus ensuring that only the strongest biomarker candidates will advance down the development pipeline.

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Related Topix: Cambridge, MA, UC San Francisco

TMCnet

New Anklebot May Help In Rehabilitation Of Stroke Survivors

A new Anklebot offering, a revolutionary product developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and funded by the Department of Veteran Affairs, promises a new ray of hope for the rehabilitation of patients recovering from the effects of stroke and a host of other neurological disorders.

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Related Topix: Stroke, Medicine, Health

Sun Jun 28, 2009

Jerusalem Post

US professors: Support for Israel eroded

Unwavering support for Israeli policy has eroded dramatically both on American college campuses and within the United States as a whole, according to a group of American university professors who on Sunday concluded an academic exchange program here, sponsored by the Yitzhak Rabin Center.

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Related Topix: Israel, World News, Middle East, Georgetown University

The Vail Trail

Vail Symposium rethinks humanity

Father Thomas Keating and Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi discuss war and its effects on humanity during the Vail Symposium's Rethinking Humanity event Tuesday in Wolcott.

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Related Topix: Vail, CO, Snowmass, CO

Sat Jun 27, 2009

CareerJournal

Inventor to Receive MIT Prize

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology expects to name Chad Mirkin, creator of a range of sensitive diagnostic tests for diseases, as the winner of the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize, a premier award recognizing invention.

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Related Topix: Inventions, Science / Technology, Nanotechnology, Chemistry, Science, Northwestern University

Fri Jun 26, 2009

Media Matters for America

Fox still peddling debunked cap-and-trade cost figure

EMBED SUMMARY: Fox News advanced the debunked conservative claim that Democrats' cap-and-trade plan will cost American families $3,100 per year.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, John Boehner, Republican, US House of Representatives

WorldChanging

New EPA Analysis of Waxman-Markey: Consumer Electric Bills 7% Lower in 2020 Thanks To Efficiency

The EPA has posted its detailed analysis of the American Clean Energy and Security Act here .

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Related Topix: Environmental Law, Law, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Alternative Energy, Science / Technology, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy

Thu Jun 25, 2009

AsianWeek

Chinese American Hero: Chih-Kung Jen

Name in English: Chih-Kung Jen Name in Chinese: [ ] Name in Pinyin: Ren Zhigong Gender: Male Birth Year: 1906-1995 Birth Place: Hexi Village, Shanxi Province, China Philanthropy: Yes Pioneer in Microwave and Physics Research Profession : Physicist, Professor Education: B.S., Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; M.A., Radio ...

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Related Topix: World News, China, Asia, Asian-American, Chinese-American, Travel, China Travel, Physics, Science, University of Pennsylvania

Pharmaceutical Online

TARIS Biomedical Launches With $15M In Funding To Develop...

TARIS Biomedical, a specialty pharmaceutical company pioneering the field of drug-device convergence for targeted therapies, launched today and announced it has secured $15 million in Series A financing.

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Related Topix: Venture Capital, Emerging Technology, Financial Services, Investment Services, Medicine, Interstitial Cystitis, Health, bladder cancer, Pain

Wed Jun 24, 2009

Free Republic

EPA's own research expert 'shut up' on climate change

Environmental Protection Agency officials have silenced one of their own senior researchers after the 38-year employee issued an internal critique of the EPA's climate change position.

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Related Topix: Environmental Law, Law, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Global Warming, California Institute of Technology, San Jose, CA

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Chad Mirkin Receives $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize for Invention

Northwestern University researcher Chad Mirkin , one of the world's leaders in nanotechnology research and its application, has been awarded the prestigious 2009 $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize.

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Related Topix: Inventions, Science / Technology, Nanotechnology, Northwestern University, Chemistry, Science

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