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Astronomy & Space news
 | India's mini space shuttle to blast off on test runIndia was making final preparations Sunday for the launch of its first model space shuttle, as it bids to join the race to one day make rockets as reusable as airplanes. |
 | Space shuttle tank to be hauled to Los Angeles museumA massive space shuttle external propellant tank will be squeezed through the streets of Los Angeles to join a display of the retired orbiter Endeavour at the California Science Center. |
Pages astronauts followed to land on moon sell for $175,000Three pages with the step-by-step computer procedures that U.S. astronauts followed to land the Apollo 11 lunar module on the moon's surface in 1969 have sold at auction for $175,000. | |
Technology news
 | Privacy fears: Panel has advice for drone operatorsA panel of privacy experts and technology companies organized by the Obama administration has issued guidelines for using drones without being overly intrusive. |
 | 3-D printing hair structures opens up fascinating design space(Tech Xplore)—Scientific research into stuff—what things are made of, what they could be made of, what everyday applications could expand into groundbreaking applications with everyday materials—is very much alive and turning up surprising results. |
 | Google piecing together a modular phoneGoogle showed off a modular Android-powered smartphone it said is on track to hit the market next year. |
 | Solar Impulse plane leaves Oklahoma for DaytonAn experimental, solar-powered aircraft took off from Tulsa in the midwestern US state of Oklahoma early Saturday, kicking off the latest phase of its record-breaking quest to circle the globe without consuming a drop of fuel. |
 | Solar Impulse plane lands in Dayton from OklahomaA solar-powered plane landed in Dayton, Ohio on the latest leg of a record-breaking trip to circle the globe without consuming a drop of fuel. |
 | Apple, Google locked in battle for supremacyAt the top of the corporate world, Apple and Google are in a back-and-forth battle to be number one. |
 | Now imagine your smartphone as a digital microscopeHere is a delightful thought, that you can look at the world of tiny things in nature and all surroundings using just your smartphone camera and nothing else. |
Utah lawmaker wants opt-in requirement for pornA Utah lawmaker who succeeded in having pornography declared a public health crisis intends to continue his crusade through a bill that could require porn filters to be placed on the Internet. | |
3-D candy-maker billed as world's first arrives in New YorkNow there's yet another market for 3-D printer-enthusiasts: candy. | |
 | New NYC buses have Wi-Fi but no tech to avoid those on footThere are some nifty features on New York City's sleek new fleet of more than 2,000 buses, the first of which began hitting the streets this past week. |
 | Apple chief Tim Cook meets Indian PM ModiApple chief executive Tim Cook met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi Saturday, launching a new version of the Indian leader's eponymous app on a visit aimed at pushing the technology giant's expansion plans. |
Medicine & Health news
World report on fertility treatments reveals high use of intracytoplasmic sperm injectionThe editor-in-chief of one of the world's leading reproductive medicine journals has attacked the rising use of intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) for the treatment of infertility, following publication of the latest world report on assisted reproductive technologies (ART) today. | |
After Ebola, World Bank creates pandemic insurance planThe World Bank announced Saturday a new program to mobilize funds quickly against virulent disease outbreaks after the world was caught unprepared in the 2014 Ebola disaster in West Africa. | |
One-third of heart failure patients do not return to workOne-third of patients hospitalised with heart failure for the first time have not returned to work one year later, reveals a study in nearly 12 000 patients presented today at Heart Failure 2016 and the 3rd World Congress on Acute Heart Failure by Dr Rasmus Roerth, a physician at Copenhagen University Hospital in Copenhagen, Denmark. | |
How does obesity cause disease in organs distant from those where fat accumulates?Barcelona, Spain: Obesity is on the rise throughout the world, and in some developed countries two-third of the adult population is either overweight or obese. This brings with it an increased risk of serious conditions such as heart disease, stroke, cancer and osteoarthritis. Many of these conditions do not appear to affect the parts of the body where the excess fat accumulates, but rather to involve body systems that are remote from the fat accumulation. Now an international group of scientists has taken an important step towards understanding the links between obesity and the related, yet physically distant, diseases it causes, the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics will hear today. | |
Watch that temper! Americans turn to pros to curb angerBernard Minor spent 26 years behind bars for murdering a drug dealer who owed him $400. Now, the ex-con spends his days teaching others to keep their rage in check, one of the swelling ranks of America's anger therapists. | |
In Rwanda, a phone text can save a babyUsing an old mobile phone, health worker Floride Uwinkesha logs the latest local pregnancy, part of efforts in Rwanda to boost maternal health through a monitoring programme in isolated rural areas. | |
Zika-related microcephaly cases reach five in ColombiaFive infants have been born with Zika-related microcephaly in Colombia since officials began monitoring the outbreak of the mosquito-borne virus, the country's health authorities said Saturday. | |
Web-based tool will provide individualized care plan for osteoarthritis patientsResearchers at UMass Medical School are developing a web-based, decision-support tool for osteoarthritis patients that will provide individualized, evidence-based information in real time to guide optimal knee and hip care, including joint replacement. Patricia Franklin, MD, MBA, MPH, professor of orthopedics & physical rehabilitation, has been approved for a $6.4 million funding award by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to create the care plan, which will be based on evidence gathered from a national total joint replacement database led by UMass Medical School called Function and Outcomes Research for Comparative Effectiveness in Total Joint Replacement (FORCE-TJR.) It is the most comprehensive U.S. database on total hip and knee joint replacement patients and their surgical, patient-reported outcomes. | |
Research Center looks at video game as tool for food allergy complianceElizabeth McQuaid, Ph.D., a staff psychologist from the Bradley Hasbro Children's Research Center, is leading the Phase II trial of an interactive software game developed to help children with food allergies better manage allergy symptoms, social situations and proper food avoidance. | |
 | Congress warming to idea of medical marijuana for veteransCongress is showing an increased willingness to let VA doctors talk to veterans about medical marijuana in states where it's legal, although final approval is far from certain. |
 | China arrests 135 for illegally buying, selling vaccinesChina has arrested 135 people in 22 provinces for illegally buying and selling vaccines, in the latest scandal shaking the Chinese public's confidence in vaccine safety. |
 | Trying to get jump on Zika preparations with money in limboBeg, borrow and steal: Zika preparation involves a bit of all three as federal, state and local health officials try to get a jump on the mosquito-borne virus while Congress haggles over how much money they really need. |
Green hopes as Australia legalises medical cannabisJai Whitelaw was 10 when he first took medical cannabis, given to him by his mother in a bid to treat the debilitating epilepsy that saw him endure up to 500 seizures a day. | |
 | Elderly book end-of-life talks once labeled 'death panels'The doctor got right down to business after Herbert Diamond bounded in. A single green form before her, she had some questions for the agile 88-year-old: about comas and ventilators, about feeding tubes and CPR, about intense and irreversible suffering. |
Biology news
 | Salmon sickness detected in farmed Canadian fishResearchers led by a Canadian government scientist have diagnosed potential heart and skeletal muscle inflammation in farmed salmon from British Columbia province, the Canadian fisheries ministry announced Friday. |
 | Saving devils, in a single disease-free corner of TasmaniaDrive over one narrow isthmus in Tasmania, and then another, and you'll reach the last place on Earth where wild Tasmanian devils live apart from a contagious cancer that threatens the fearsome marsupials' existence. Conservationists are doing everything they can to keep it that way. |
 | To claw or not to claw? NY cat proposal sparks frisky debateFor many decades, declawing cats has been a routine veterinary procedure, but this is no simple pedicure. There's anesthesia, pain medication and the amputation of the cat's toes back to the first knuckle. |
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