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  • Find how fit you are for your age

    A researcher at New York's Albert Einstein College of Medicine has demonstrated a technique to measure the health of human genetic material in relation to a patient's age. Dr. Gil Atzmon hopes that the dissemination of this technique that measures telomere length will lead to the development of a "genetic thermometer" to assess a patient's health in relation to other individuals of the same ...

  • Russian rocket wreckage threatens Ecuador satellite

    The Ecuadorian Civil Space Agency issued an alert Wednesday about a possible collision of its Pegaso satellite, launched last month, with the wreckage of a Russian rocket. "ALERT: Possible collision of NEE-01 PEGASO and remains of Russian rocket," appeared Wednesday on the Twitter account of the space agency known as EXA. EXA's director, astronaut Ronnie Nader, published a notice from the ...

  • Over 10 new oil fields found in Siberia

    Space imaging studies have revealed over 10 new oil deposits in Krasnoyarsk territory in Siberia, a scientist said. "The method of space imaging quantum-optical filtration allows us to identify the boundaries of deposits," said Valery Rostovtsev, associate professor of Tomsk Polytechnic University's geology and prospecting department. "We can see four deposits near Bely Yar in the Tomsk ...

  • UN urges collective efforts to achieve water secure world on Day for Biological Diversity UN urges collective efforts to achieve water secure world on Day for Biological Diversity

    22 May 2013 150 Unless greater efforts are made to reverse current trends, the world will run out of freshwater, the United Nations said today marking the International Day for Biological Diversity and urging stronger scientific alliances to understand and protect natural resources. "We live in an increasingly water insecure world where demand often outstrips supply and where water quality ...

  • Researchers Map Genome Of Two Important Spruce Tree Species

    The genomes of two of the most economically important forest trees in the world were released by Canadian and Swedish scientists. In Canada, the conifers supply raw materials for the forest industry, accounting for $23.7 billion of the nation's economy in 2011, while the gross output of the Swedish forest industry was $29.7 billion in 2009. Between them, the ...

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Cronos [Blu-Ray]

Cronos [Blu-Ray]

Why has immortality been such an appealing topic for art for so many ages? Is it because we fear death and what lies beyond and we will do anything to avoid dealing with those questions? Maybe it is because, especially in the past century, modern medicine has found and continues to find so many ne ... ...

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  • Across America 2013 Solar Impulse Sets World Record For Longest Zero-Fuel Flight

    Image Caption: Across America 2013 - 2nd leg from Phoenix Sky Harbor to Dallas Forth Worth. B. Piccard and A. Borschberg after the landing. Credit: Solar Impulse |Revillard| ...

  • Small Plant-Eating Dino Sheds Light On Ancient Ecosystem

    Image Caption: This is a life reconstruction of the new small-bodied, plant-eating dinosaur Albertadromeus syntarsus. Credit: Art by Julius T. ...

  • NASA Hosts Google+ Hangout Today With Space Station Astronauts

    with the three recently returned International Space Station astronauts from 3-4 p.m. EDT on Thursday, May 23. This event will connect the ...

  • Rules for writing block that metaphor

    New Yorker , usually culled from the pages of lesser publications, under the heading: "Block That Metaphor!" It's sound advice, on the whole. There's nothing necessarily wrong with mixed metaphors, if they are well mixed: by flooding his china shop, Foulkes almost comes up with an evocative image, though he rather spoils it with the flat-hooved bull. But they are usually the ...

  • Russia Set to Evacuate Drifting Polar Research Station SP-40

    MOSCOW, May 23 (RIA Novosti) - Russian Natural Resources Minister Sergei Donskoi ordered preparation of an evacuation plan on Thursday for the country’s North Pole 40 (SP-40) drifting polar research station, due to the break-up of the ice floe it is located on. The break-up of the ice floe poses a threat not only to the station itself and the 16 scientists working there, but could also ...

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