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The Hubble telescope was in the middle of testing and calibration of its new instruments, installed by astronauts during a service mission in May. Hubble managers decided that the Jupiter impact event was rare enough and important enough to pause testing to get a look.
Jupiter was supposedly hit by a rogue object several days ago [...]

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Bumblebee population decline may be in for even more bad news. With the decrease in the bee populations, it has been found that there is a high likelihood of increased bumblebee inbreeding. Researchers have provided the first proof that inbreeding reduces colony fitness under natural conditions by increasing the production of reproductively inefficient ‘diploid’ males.
Males [...]

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Students of the Johns Hopkins biomedical engineering program have been working on something interesting. They have demonstrated a practical way to embed a patient’s own adult stem cells in the surgical thread that doctors use to repair serious orthopedic injuries such as ruptured tendons. They believe that the procedure, which doesn’t change the surgical procedure [...]

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Yesterday I read an article about how humans can give Swine Flu to Pigs. Irony at its finest. Today I see the headline that it is even more dangerous than before and fully expected it to be about pigs getting swine flu, but alas I am mistaken.
A new in depth study of the “H1HN1″ [...]

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Plants that reproduce sexually, compared to those that reproduce in an asexual manner appear to have a much better defense against insect attacks.
In research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists from North Carolina State University and Duke University discovered that sexually produced evening primrose plants withstand attacks from plant-eaters like [...]

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If you are one of those that slip a swear word into every sentence just for the hell of it, you may be doing yourself quite a favor by doing so. A study appearing in the August 5 NeuroReport suggests that four-letter words may help alleviate pain.
“Swear words are unique,” says Timothy Jay, a [...]

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