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Many people belived that japan quake was happened because of super moon. Is there any scientific evidence ?

Half of men in the general population may be infected with human papillomavirus or HPV, the human wart virus that causes cervical and other cancers, strengthening the case for vaccinating boys against HPV, U.S. researchers said on Monday. U.S. vaccine advisers have been weighing whether boys...

The Beacons of Light ~ Re-minders from Home February 15 2011 ~ Magnetic Whip ~ Magnetosphere Whiplash The Beacons of Light Re-minders from Home are presented Live on the internet, transcribed and posted here on the 15th of each month. The next Lightworker VirtualLight Broadcast will be on...

Scientists should dial down expectations about breakthroughs from mapping the human genome because it will take years to make sense of all the information, a leader of the mapping project says. Ten years after the first full sequence of the human genome was published, medicine has not been...

A tiny, translucent water flea that can reproduce without sex and lives in ponds and lakes has more genes than any other creature, said scientists who have sequenced the crustacean's genome. Daphnia pulex, named after the nymph in Greek mythology who transforms into a tree in order to escape...

Japanese scientist Shinya Yamanaka was Friday honoured with a Spanish award worth 400,000 euros ($544,000) for his pioneering work on cell reprogramming. Yamanaka won the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Biomedicine, the foundation announced. The former orthopedic surgeon made...

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Ernest McCulloch, a Canadian researcher who was part of a team that first proved the existence of stem cells more than five decades ago died this week at the age of 84, his colleagues said Friday. McCulloch and his research partner James Till together created the first...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – As the ocean floor plunges off southwestern Puerto Rico, it reveals coral reefs dotted with bright-blue sea squirts and a multitude of other organisms whose existence has given hope to scientists who strive to save the island's threatened ecosystems. The organisms are an...

Alok Jha London Guardian Jan 13, 2011 World governments should prepare a co-ordinated action plan in case Earth is contacted by aliens, according to scientists. They argue that a branch of the UN must be given responsibility for “supra-Earth affairs” and formulate a plan for how to deal with...

Washington’s Blog Jan 12, 2011 Everyone agrees that the number of cavities have plummeted in the U.S. over the last couple of decades, after water fluoridation was introduced (that is why health officials call water fluoridation “one of the ten greatest public health accomplishments of the...

01-11-2011 02:54 AM 'World governments should prepare a co-ordinated action plan in case Earth is contacted by aliens, according to scientists. Scientists argue that a branch of the UN must be given responsibility for "supra-Earth affairs" and formulate a plan for how to deal with...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. – Scientists whose genetics-based research became a lightning rod in the debate over protecting the Great Lakes from Asian carp have made their case in a newly published article that says at least some of the dreaded invaders have gotten beyond an electric barrier meant to...

Samples of DNA can give a high-probability estimate of someone's hair colour, a finding that will be a boon for forensic scientists, according to a new study published on Tuesday. DNA taken from blood, sperm, saliva or skin cells can determine with more than 90-percent accuracy whether a person...

JAKARTA, Indonesia – Fossils of a giant stork have been discovered on a far-flung Indonesian island that has been home to many extreme-sized creatures — from tiny human-like "hobbits" and dwarf elephants to the world's largest-known rats and lizards. Authors Hanneke Meijer and Rokus Due wrote...

Richard Brodie "Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme " Publisher: Hay House 2009-05-15 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 1401924689 | PDF | 6 MB Virus of the Mind is the first popular book devoted to the science of memetics, a controversial new field that transcends psychology, biology...

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/818...ted-in-uk-port A mysterious object has been spotted in waters near Liverpool in England's northwest, sparking speculation it could be a shark. The object, seen at the Albert dock in Merseyside, has raised questions about the effect England's freezing...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – An astronomer argues that his Christian faith and his peers' belief that he is an evolution skeptic kept him from getting a prestigious job as the director of a new student observatory at the University of Kentucky. Martin Gaskell quickly rose to the top of a list of...

Video Information Dr. Russell Blaylock M.D. is a retired neurosurgeon and author whose trailblazing research has tirelessly documented the fact that there is an epidemic of neurological disorders in the western world which are directly connected to toxins in our environment, and how this...

Asteroids may leave impact craters and occasionally wipe out entire species, but planetary scientist Elisabetta "Betty" Pierazzo also wants to know what happens to Earth's seas and skies. Her work at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Ariz., has revealed not only how deep impacts altered...

In the universal scheme of things there lies, somewhere between energy and matter, sub-microscopic energy particles called Somatids. They are found in all things inlcuding humans, animals, fruit and veg, the sap of plants, and even in lifeless organic matter like rock and ashes. They are...