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CHICAGO (Reuters) - A substance that forms in patients with all-metal artificial hips turns out to contain the common lubricant graphite, a discovery that could help in designing longer lasting implants, researchers said.Such "metal-on-metal" hips were developed to be more durable than ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Astronomers have found a pair of Earth-sized planets orbiting a star similar to the sun, though neither are believed to be suitable for life, scientists on NASA's Kepler telescope team said on Tuesday.The discovery follows confirmation earlier ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Use of chimpanzees in government-funded medical research should be strictly limited, reserved only for studies where no suitable alternative is available or where testing in people would be unethical, a U.S. expert panel said on Thursday.The Institute of Medicine, ...
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's commodity-rich Sumatra and Kalimantan regions are among areas at high risk of flooding in December, the state weather agency said on Monday.The agency said the country's rainy season is expected to peak in December and January.The rainy season ...
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Almost 80,000 years before humans began using chemical sprays to control insect pests, Africans were using mattresses made from bug-repelling plants to ensure a good night's sleep.The finding, published in the journal Science on Friday, derives from 77,000-year-old plant ...
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Almost 80,000 years before humans began using chemical sprays to control insect pests, Africans were using mattresses made from bug-repelling plants to ensure a good night's sleep.The finding, published in the journal Science Friday, derives from 77,000-year-old plant bedding ...
GENEVA (Reuters) - The United States called on Wednesday for closer international cooperation to prevent terrorist groups from developing or using biological weapons, a threat it said was growing.Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said countries must strengthen their ability to detect and ...
MOFFET FIELD, California (Reuters) - The most Earth-like planet ever discovered is circling a star 600 light years away, a key finding in an ongoing quest to learn if life exists beyond Earth, scientists said on Monday.The planet, called Kepler-22b, joins a ...
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Elan Corp Plc has signed an agreement with Britain's Cambridge University to create a research center focused on therapies for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, the Dublin-headquartered biotech group said on Sunday.Elan, whose main research facility is in San Francisco, will ...
GENEVA (Reuters) - La Nina, a weather phenomenon usually linked to heavy rains and flooding in the Asia-Pacific and South America and drought in Africa, has re-emerged and is likely to persist into early 2012, the World Meterological Organization (WMO) said on ...
