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California lawmakers advance right-to-die legislation
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10 years ago
By JUDY LIN From Associated Press June 04, 2015 6:31 PM EST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) California lawmakers advanced a right-to-die bill Thursday, giving hope to those who want the nation's most...
Researchers May Have Solved 'Missing Link' Mystery in Origin of Life
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10 years ago
How did life on Earth begin? It's been one of modern biology's greatest mysteries: How did the chemical soup that existed on the early Earth lead to the complex molecules needed to create...
7 Food Label Claims That Are Meaningless
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10 years ago
original article here. Food labels can be utterly confusing. One one hand, they contain vital information about nutrition and contents, and on the other hand, they contain marketing ploys...
Mapping the Grand Canyon's Gruesome Legacy of Death
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10 years ago
One of Americas mightiest sights is also a mighty destroyer. Since the mid-1800s, some 770 people have died in the Grand Canyonand due to inconsistencies in the record, the real number is...
Exoplanets & the Search for Habitable Worlds
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Hundreds or thousands of years from now, when people look back at our generation, they will remember us for being the first people who found the Earth-like worlds. - Sara Seager The question of...
140 Million Suns! Monster Black Hole Weighs In
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10 years ago
A heavyweight black hole in the heart of a distant galaxy has the mass of 140 million suns, according to new measurements. A vivid video by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory describes...
NASA Awards $100,000 To Winning Robot Challenge Team
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10 years ago
NASA has awarded $100,000 in prize money to the Mountaineers, a team from West Virginia University, Morgantown, for successfully completing Level 2 of the Sample Return Robot Challenge, part...
Finally, A Cure for the African Sleeping Sickness!
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10 years ago
Scientists working to eradicate African Sleeping Sickness have discovered that the tsetse fly has a weakness for the color blue-- they are attracted to the color blue, which may help to make...
German hospital says quads born to 65-year-old doing well
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German hospital says quads born to 65-year-old doing well BERLIN Doctors say quadruplets born prematurely a month ago to a 65-year-old woman in Germany are doing well and gaining...
Brothers paralyzed after injecting oil to copy muscular bodies
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10 years ago
Brothers paralyzed after injecting oil to copy muscular bodies A pair of brothers living in Peru who idolized the stars of a popular reality TV show injected their bodies with oil to...
NASA releases first Pluto flyby images
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10 years ago
livefyreEmailNASAPlutoSurface.jpgCloseup image of Pluto. (NASA-JHUAPL-SwRI)NASA has released the first images taken during New Horizons historic flyby of dwarf planet Pluto.We have got a whole...
BBC - Is your bar-be-que killing you?
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10 years ago
Original article-- lots of clickables to learn more!!! BBC In the who'd a thunk it category, Is your bar-be-que killing you? In a sense, it may be contributing to your ill health... ( Hey,...
Where Only America Has Gone Before
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Today (July 20th) marks the 46th anniversary of Neil Armstrong becoming the first man to land on the moon. With the famous words Thats one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind,...
'Impossible' rocket drive works and could get to Moon in four hours
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'Impossible' rocket drive works and could get to Moon in four hours The British designed EM Drive actually works and would dramatically speed up space travel, scientists have confirmed...
HOSPICE NURSE REVEALS the Top Five Regrets People Make on their Deathbed
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10 years ago
For many years I worked in palliative care. My patients were those who had gone home to die. Some incredibly special times were shared. I was with them for the last three to twelve weeks of their...
College to Stop Students Health Coverage Over Contraception Flap
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10 years ago
An evangelical Christian college in suburban Chicago is refusing to buckle under Obamacare's controversial contraception mandate, and Friday stops providing students health insurance.The decision...
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