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• 60-Year-Old Woman Wants to Get Pregnant: What Are the Risks?

  02-07-2016 23:18
  A 60-year-old women in England whose daughter died wants to use her eggs to get pregnant, and give birth to her own grandchild, but would such a pregnancy come with risks? In general, older women are at higher risk for complications during pregnancy compared with younger women.
  
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• Juno Probe Will Run Hellish Radiation Gauntlet at Jupiter Monday

  02-07-2016 22:10
  
  The Juno spacecraft's long-awaited arrival at Jupiter Monday (July 4) will be a baptism by fire. If all goes according to plan Monday night, Juno will slip into orbit around the giant planet and get its first taste of the solar system's most intense radiation environment — a region where huge swarms of electrons are accelerated to nearly the speed of light by Jupiter's magnetic field, which is 20,000 times more powerful than Earth's. "Once these electrons hit a spacecraft, they immediately
  
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• The lion herding sheep in Russia's Dagestan

  02-07-2016 21:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  This lion's role on a farm in northern Russia will surprise you.
  
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• Advanced colorectal cancer: Anti-interleukin-1 alpha antibody MABp1 improves outcomes significantly over placebo

  02-07-2016 20:44
  A novel anti-interleukin 1-alpha antibody has shown a significant impact on symptoms, and a high level of safety and tolerability in patients with advanced colorectal cancer, according to phase III data.
  
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• Juno mission: British rocket engine ready for Jupiter task

  02-07-2016 18:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  When the US space agency’s latest probe to Jupiter tries to enter into orbit around the planet on Tuesday, it will be relying on a British rocket engine.
  
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• Australian senator Xenophon emerging as kingmaker in tight election

  02-07-2016 17:36
  By Matt Siegel ADELAIDE, Australia (Reuters) - As Australians cast their ballots in a tight election on Saturday afternoon, senator Nick Xenophon worked up a sweat while preparing kebabs at a Greek restaurant in his hometown. "Nick, if you no get across the line tonight, I give you a job," owner Yianni Tsagariolis shouted in a thick Greek accent, drawing laughter from Xenophon supporters who had gathered at the restaurant. Australians went to sleep without knowing who will be prime minister, but
  
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• Can feeding B.C.'s orcas help save them? Anglers aim to find out

  02-07-2016 14:00 via cbc.ca
  
  A group of fishermen in British Columbia say the federal government has given them the green light for a project they say is designed to feed endangered killer whales. But it's a unique plan not everyone supports.
  
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• State of play

  02-07-2016 11:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  UK science is one of the biggest winners from Britain's membership of the EU. Now it stands to lose the most from Brexit.
  
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• Dead whale towed off Los Angeles beach ahead of holiday

  02-07-2016 06:23
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The reeking carcass of a dead humpback whale was towed back out to sea some 24 hours after washing up at a popular Los Angeles County beach Friday.
  
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• Report: Static electricity caused Hawaii lab explosion

  02-07-2016 04:36
  
  HONOLULU (AP) — A laboratory explosion at the University of Hawaii that resulted in a researcher losing her arm was likely caused by static electricity, according to an independent investigation.
  
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• Investigators: Lab explosion caused by electrostatic charge

  02-07-2016 01:14
  HONOLULU (AP) — Investigators are saying a laboratory explosion at the University of Hawaii that resulted in a researcher losing her arm was likely caused by an electrostatic charge.
  
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• Walking meetings could brings longer and healthier lives to office workers

  02-07-2016 00:35
  Changing just one seated meeting per week at work into a walking meeting increased the work-related physical activity levels of white-collar workers by 10 minutes, according to a new study. The study suggests a possible new health promotion approach to improving the health of millions of white-collar workers who spend most of their workdays sitting in chairs.
  
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• Technique from biology helps explain the evolution of the American car

  02-07-2016 00:35
  Researchers have taken a unique approach to explain the way in which technologies evolve in modern society. Borrowing a technique that biologists might use to study the evolution of plants or animals, the scientists plotted the "births" and "deaths" of every American-made car and truck model from 1896 to 2014.
  
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• E. coli: The ideal transport vehicle for next-gen vaccines?

  02-07-2016 00:35
  Researchers have developed an E. coli-based transport capsule designed to help next-generation vaccines do a more efficient and effective job than today's immunizations. The research highlights the capsule's success fighting pneumococcal disease, an infection that can result in pneumonia, sepsis, ear infections and meningitis.
  
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• Copper-induced misfolding of prion proteins

  02-07-2016 00:35
  Researchers have described with single-molecule precision how copper ions cause prion proteins to misfold and seed the misfolding and clumping of nearby prion proteins.
  
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• Trauma induces more alcohol craving than stress among veterans with PTSD and co-occurring alcohol dependence

  02-07-2016 00:34
  Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and alcohol dependence (AD) are two of the most common and debilitating disorders diagnosed among American military veterans. AD and PTSD often occur together, and this co-occurrence has a worse prognosis than either disorder alone. Alcohol craving is related to relapse, but the relationship between PTSD symptoms, craving, and relapse is not well understood. This study is the first to explore the effects of trauma-induced and stress-induced imagery on alcoho
  
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• Routine eye exams lead to high rate of change in vision status or care

  02-07-2016 00:33
  Do you really need to get your eyes checked -- even if you haven't noticed any vision problems or eye-related symptoms? More than half of routine eye examinations in asymptomatic patients lead to a change in vision prescription or other changes in care, according to a study.
  
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• Injectable biomaterial could be used to manipulate organ behavior

  02-07-2016 00:33
  Ideally, injectable or implantable medical devices should not only be small and electrically functional, they should be soft, like the body tissues with which they interact. Scientists set out to see if they could design a material with all three of those properties.
  
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• Researchers identify human fingerprint on Indo-Pacific warm pool growth

  02-07-2016 00:32
  Scientists have provided the first quantitative attribution of the Indo-Pacific warm pool (IPWP) warming and its expansion over the course of the past 60 years, examining human influences and natural contributions.
  
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• It's Official! NASA Pluto Probe to Fly by Another Object in 2019

  02-07-2016 00:16
  
  NASA's New Horizons Pluto probe isn't done exploring the far outer solar system just yet. NASA has approved a mission extension for New Horizons, which performed the first-ever flyby of Pluto in July 2015. The spacecraft is now set for a Jan. 1, 2019 flyby of a small object called 2014 MU69, which lies about 1 billion miles (1.6 billion kilometers) beyond Pluto in the dark and frigid Kuiper Belt.
  
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