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McDonald's recalls Shrek glasses due to potential cadmium risk — The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) just announced…
Hogchoker - the new Internet star — A small flatfish living along the coast of North America is the…
Cancer deaths are projected to double by 2030 — Cancer deaths are projected to double in the next two decades.…

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Wasps clock faces like humans — Face recognition in golden paper wasps may be an adaptation to…
Entangled diamonds vibrate together — Objects big enough for the eye to see have been placed in a weirdly…
How animals predict earthquakes — Animals may sense chemical changes in groundwater that occur…
New Icelandic volcano eruption could have global impact — Hundreds of metres under one of Iceland's largest glaciers there…

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News | Archive (25 May 2010) [Page 7]

Archived news stories published on 25 May 2010 [chronologically, reverse order]
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Apple launches iPad
Apple launches iPad — Apple introduced iPad, a revolutionary device for browsing the web, reading and sending email, enjoying photos, watching…
Black hole hunters set new distance record
Black hole hunters set new distance record — The stellar-mass black holes found in the Milky Way weigh up to ten times the mass of the Sun and are certainly not be taken…
Mars rover Spirit starts a new chapter
Mars rover Spirit starts a new chapter — After six years of unprecedented exploration of the Red Planet, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit no longer will be a…
The first of many asteroid finds for WISE
The first of many asteroid finds for WISE — NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has spotted its first never-before-seen near-Earth asteroid, the first…

Preventing cells from getting the kinks out of DNA

— 10:04 GMT | Health

Many standard antibiotics and anti-cancer drugs block the enzymes that snip the kinks and knots out of DNA - DNA tangles are lethal to cells - but the drugs are increasingly encountering resistant bacteria and tumours…

STEREO, SOHO spacecraft catch comet diving into sun

— 10:01 GMT | Astronomy

Solar physicists at the University of California, Berkeley, have captured for the first time the collision of a comet with the sun…

Research on self-healing concrete yields cost-effective system to extend life of structures

— 09:58 GMT | Technology

Efforts to extend the life of structures and reduce repair costs have led engineers to develop 'smart materials' that have self-healing properties, but many of these new materials are difficult to commercialise. A new self-healing concrete developed and tested by a graduate student at the University of Rhode Island, however, may prove to be cost-effective…

Obesity remains an economic issue, Seattle obesity study finds

— 09:55 GMT | Health

Ensuring access to healthy, affordable foods is a top priority in tackling the obesity epidemic in the United States. Over the course of the last six months, the Institute of Medicine, United States Department of Agriculture, The White House and First Lady Michelle Obama have taken an interest in improving access to affordable and nutritious foods…

Nile delta natural gas potential is significant

— 09:52 GMT | Environment

An estimated 223 trillion cubic feet (tcf) (mean estimate) of undiscovered, technically recoverable natural gas are in the Nile Delta Basin Province, located in the Eastern Mediterranean region…

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