Saturday, May 9th, 2009
Washington, May 9 (ANI): When President Obama delivers his long-promised speech to Egypt on June 4, he will make his plans clear on how he would treat the Muslim nation far differently from what the Bush administration did.
Although Obama can't completely ignore Egypt's poor human rights record and decades of ...
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Friday, May 8th, 2009
Washington, May 8 (ANI): Researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, have created an "astro-comb" to help astronomers detect lighter planets, more like Earth, around distant stars.
In most cases, extrasolar planets can't be seen directly-the glare of the nearby star is too great-but their influence can ...
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Friday, May 8th, 2009
Washington, May 8 (ANI): Hoping to some day develop new tools for diagnosing mental health disorders and monitoring the progress of their treatments, scientists have now turned to uncovering new information about the mind by studying brains while they are at rest.
Researchers at Oregon Health and Science University are running ...
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Thursday, May 7th, 2009
London, May 7 (ANI): A group of scientists have identified three genes that specifically mediate the metastasis, or spread, of breast cancer to the brain and how.
Researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) have found that COX2 and HB-EGF - genes that induce cancer cell mobility and invasiveness - are ...
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Thursday, May 7th, 2009
Washington, May 7 (ANI): The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an immense international telescope project under construction in northern Chile, reached a major milestone when two ALMA antennas were linked together as an integrated system to observe an astronomical object for the first time.
The milestone achievement, technically termed "First Fringes," ...
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Thursday, May 7th, 2009
Washington, May 07 (ANI): A new study by researchers in Australia has shown that consumers are more likely to identify healthy food when they see colour-coded traffic light nutrition labels.
Some governments are trying to improve the quality of nutrition information that consumers have access to in supermarkets by adding labels ...
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Thursday, May 7th, 2009
Washington, May 6 (ANI): An analysis by a team of Swedish and German scientists quantifies for the first time the opportunities of effectively using both "green" and "blue" water to adapt to climate change and to feed the world population to tackle future food crises.
If the overall water resources in ...
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Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
Washington, May 6 (ANI): When President Barack Obama meets both Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari and Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai here today, he will stress that both are facing the same enemy and need to overcome their mistrust to ensure that joint efforts against the Taliban are not hampered. ...
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Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
Chennai, May 5 (ANI/Business Wire India): Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd. (M and M), part of the US 6.7 billion dollars Mahindra Group, today introduced the Flyte as its first two-wheeler offering across all markets in India.
This is part of the company's strategy following the acquisition of the ...
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Monday, May 4th, 2009
Abu Dhabi (UAE), May 3 (ANI): Michael Clarke's commanding performance as a player and leader in Australia's 3-1 series victory over Pakistan in Dubai and Abu Dhabi has confirmed him as the leader-in-waiting.
Handed the reins for his first ...
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