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Women too often tested for osteoporosis, researchers report

Jan 19, 2012

Many women who get screened for osteoporosis may not need it, according to a study that suggests current guidelines result in too many unnecessary tests, increasing costs and sometimes spurring unnecessary treatment. Osteoporosis, a loss in bone density that can cause breaks and injuries, develops i
Scientists confirm rocks fell from Mars

Jan 18, 2012

WASHINGTON (AP) -- They came from Mars, not in peace, but in pieces.Scientists are confirming that 15 pounds of rock collected recently in Morocco fell to Earth from Mars during a meteorite shower last July.This is only the fifth time in history that scientists have chemically confirmed Martian
US may be behind Mars probe failure: Russia

Jan 17, 2012

MOSCOW (AFP) - Russia on Tuesday said the failure of its Phobos-Grunt probe for Mars could have been caused by radiation from US radars, in its latest allegation of Western interference in its space programme."There is such a theory," Yury Koptev the head of the scientific committee of state technol
UK scientists find lost Darwin fossils

Jan 17, 2012

LONDON (AP) — British scientists have found scores of fossils the great evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin and his peers collected but that had been lost for more than 150 years.Dr. Howard Falcon-Lang, a paleontologist at Royal Holloway, University of London, said Tuesday that he stumbled up
Why faces of primates differ dramatically from one another?

Jan 16, 2012

A new study gave evolutionary clues to the question of why the faces of primates so dramatically different from one another. UCLA biologists working as "evolutionary detectives" studied the faces of 129 adult male primates from Central and South America. Credit: Stephen Nash"If you look at New World
Scientists identify receptor for tasting fat

Jan 16, 2012

(MCT)A new study for the first time identified a human receptor tasting fat, suggesting that some people may be more sensitive to the presence of fat in foods.The study conducted by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis was published online in the Journal of Lipid Rese
Russian space probe crashes into Pacific

Jan 16, 2012

MOSCOW (AP) _ A Russian space probe designed to boost the nation's pride on a bold mission to a moon of Mars came down in flames Sunday, showering fragments into the south Pacific west of Chile's coast, officials said.Pieces from the Phobos-Ground, which had become stuck in Earth's orbit, landed in
Doomed Russia Mars probe eyes fiery crash

Jan 15, 2012

MOSCOW (AFP) - Russia's space agency on Sunday called off all predictions of the likely crash site of its ill-fated Mars probe only hours before the 13.5-tonne spacecraft was due to begin its fatal descent.Roscosmos said on its website that fragments of the stranded Phobos-Grunt voyager would probab
Tiny frog claimed as world's smallest vertebrate

Jan 13, 2012

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A frog that can perch on the tip of your pinkie with room to spare has been claimed as the world's smallest vertebrate species, out-tinying a fish that got the title in 2006. But the discoverer of another weensy fish disputes the claim.A tempest in a thimble, some might say.
Milky Way teeming with 'billions' of planets

Jan 12, 2012

This handout picture from the European Southern Observatory is an artist`s impression on how planets are more common than stars in the Milky Way. The new study provides evidence that there are more planets than stars in our own stellar neighbourhood. (AFP)PARIS (AFP) -- The Milky Way is home to far
Company announces low-cost DNA decoding machine

Jan 12, 2012

NEW YORK (AP) _ A biotechnology company announced it has developed a machine to decode an individual's DNA in a day for $1,000, a long-sought price goal for making the genome useful for medical care.Life Technologies Corp. said Tuesday it was taking orders for the technology, which it expects to del
El Gordo: A 'fat' distant galaxy cluster

Jan 11, 2012

An extremely hot, massive young galaxy cluster -- the largest ever seen in the distant Universe -- has been studied by an international team using ESO's Very Large Telescope in the Atacama Desert in Chile along with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Atacama Cosmology Telescope. The new
Government to keep watch on falling satellite

Jan 10, 2012

As a Russian Mars probe that stalled in orbit may fall to the Earth sometime next week, the government announced Tuesday that it would broadcast its location real time on the websites of related agencies and via Twitter until its crash.The 13.2-ton probe named Phobos-Grunt, launched last November, w
Hawking: Mankind must colonize space

Jan 10, 2012

(AP)British physicist Stephen Hawking says mankind faces the threat of nuclear annihilation and should build colonies on Mars and beyond.Hawking made the remarks on a radio program to mark his 70th birthday, responding to questions submitted by listeners, The Daily Telegraph reported Friday."It is p
Global warming delays natural patterns of glaciation, researchers say

Jan 10, 2012

Unprecedented levels of greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere are disrupting normal patterns of glaciation, scientists said.The Earth's current warm period that began about 11,000 years ago should give way to another ice age within about 1,500 years, according to the study published online Jan.