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Scientists confirm Voyager 1 probe is in interstellar space

20.09.2013 15:40
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Scientists have been debating for more than a year whether NASA's 36-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft has left the solar system and become the first human-made object to reach interstellar space. By a fluke measurement, they now know definitively it has. "We made...

Herbal stimulant khat to be banned in UK

20.09.2013 14:45
The government has announced that the herbal stimulant, khat, is to be banned and treated as a class C drug like anabolic steroids and ketamine. Khat is a plant which is chewed and used in the UK's Somali, Yemeni and Ethiopian communities. The move comes after the government's official drugs...

Weight rule on surgery is 'putting off inevitable'

20.09.2013 13:54
A health board has been criticised for insisting seriously obese people to go on a weight reduction programme before undertaking non-urgent surgery. The National Obesity Forum said the policy is expensive and could yield few benefits. Smokers will also need to complete a course on...

Building a Liver From Stem Cells

20.09.2013 13:48
This is SCIENCE FRIDAY. I'm Ira Flatow. Up now, one more step toward the holy grail in stem cell research: growing transplantable human organs in the laboratory. Reporting in the journal Nature, researchers say they have created, in the lab, the first steps toward a functional human liver, and...

Health officials warning of bad pomegranate seeds

20.09.2013 13:42
The Champaign-Urbana Public Health District wants you to be on the lookout for pomegranate seeds that have been linked to an infectious disease. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed at least 127 people across eight states have become sick from Hepatitis A after eating certain...

Elephant kills British man in India, police say

20.09.2013 13:18
A British man has been killed by a wild elephant while on safari in southern India, according to police there. The tourist, who has not been named, was killed by an elephant he had been trying to photograph while on a jungle tour in the state of Tamil Nadu, officers told the BBC. The Foreign...

Twitter's public offering comes at a time of heightened investor interest in IPO market: 131 IPOs so far in 2013:

13.09.2013 18:24
NEW YORK (AP) -- Twitter has redefined the way we communicate, get news and share tidbits of our lives. It has even been credited with starting a revolution or two. The company, based in San Francisco, announced Thursday that it intends to sell stock to the public for the first time. Naturally, it...

How to blow up a pterosaur

13.09.2013 18:01
Pick up comparably sized bones of a bird and a mammal, and the latter will weigh a lot more than the former. Both actually have hollow bones, but although the major bones of the tetrapods (the amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals) have a hollow core, in birds the walls of the bone are very thin...

Your mind-reading skills are more impressive than you might think,

13.09.2013 17:58
When I raise my index finger on entering my local bar in the Netherlands, by some mysterious process a bottle of La Chouffe is brought to the table. This is a trivial example of mind-reading. That last sentence might read like an oxymoron, but mind-reading is commonplace; and like many things we...

Woolly mammoth extinction due to warming climate

13.09.2013 17:55
A team of British and Swedish scientists just published a new study indicating that changing climate -- not humans -- played a major role in the extinction of the woolly mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius. Additionally, the team's analysis of ancient DNA revealed that Eurasia was colonised by woolly...
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