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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.

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.

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.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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 ...

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.

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.

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.