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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…
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Archived news stories published on 30 March 2009 [chronologically, reverse order]
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Hubble telescope captures views of mammoth stars
Hubble telescope captures views of mammoth stars — Two of our galaxy's most massive stars, until recently shrouded in mystery, have been viewed by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space…
Scientists study fusion to search for an energy solution
Scientists study fusion to search for an energy solution — Scientists at UC San Diego's Centre for Energy Research (CER) know we need to scale up successful fusion processes to produce…
Chandrayaan-1 starts observations of the Moon
Chandrayaan-1 starts observations of the Moon — The Indian Space Research Organisation's lunar orbiter Chandrayaan-1 released a probe that impacted close to the lunar south…
Timing is everything when it comes to childhood asthma
Timing is everything when it comes to childhood asthma — Children who are born four months before the peak of cold and flu season have a greater risk of developing childhood asthma…

Superbug risk to war wounded

— 12:08 GMT | Health

Soldiers who survive severe injuries on battlefields such as those in Iraq and Afghanistan can be at risk from developing infections of their wounds with multidrug resistant bacteria. The potentially lethal microbes include superbugs such as methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Klebsiella species and Escherichia coli…

New high-throughput screening technique makes probing puzzling proteins possible

— 12:05 GMT | Health

Understanding the tens of thousands of proteins that compose the human proteome has emerged as a key challenge of this century, and research efforts to date have already enabled major advances in drug discovery and understanding basic biology. But many potential avenues have been blocked by lack of information about how the majority of these proteins function…

Action video games improve vision

— 12:03 GMT | Health

Video games that involve high levels of action, such as first-person-shooter games, increase a player's real-world vision, according to research published in Nature Neuroscience…

Getting down to cancer basics

— 12:00 GMT | Health

Researchers have identified a new cancer gene - one that is common to many cancers and affects the most basic regulation of our genes. The new example - a gene on the X chromosome called UTX - is found in 10% of cases of multiple myeloma and 8% of oesophageal cancers…

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