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Scientists Can See What's On Your Mind

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(March 11) -- Mind-reading devices are still a thing of science fiction, but scientists can now peer into the brain and pinpoint complex memories. In the latest issue of the journal Current Biology, ...

Miracle Baby Undergoes Hypothermia, Cheats Death

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(March 12) -- Bronson Staker was only 17 months old when he was pronounced dead in a Utah hospital. But he's full of life today, thanks to an experimental procedure. Bronson's remarkable ordeal start ...

Scientists Mount Push to Block Ivory Sale

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(March 12) -- Next week, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, or CITES, will decide whether to allow two African nations to sell their stockpiled ivory. In anticipation, a gro ...

Actress Glenn Close Has Genome Mapped

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(March 11) -- Glenn Close has played a manipulative aristocrat, a Dalmatian-skinning mastermind and is now best known as a high-stakes litigator. She writes a blog about celebrity dogs, is on her thi ...

Hurricane Season Could Be 'Extreme,' Forecaster Says

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(March 11) -- AccuWeather.com, which just issued its early hurricane season forecast, not only believes that the 2010 season will be more active than last year, but the private company sees the poten ...

UN Puts Climate Change Panel in Hot Seat

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(March 11) -- The United Nations is putting its own Nobel Prize-winning climate change panel under the microscope. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon announced Wednesday that the U.N. had launched an ind ...

Obama May Need Heat Shield at Space Summit

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(March 9) -- Tax Day may seem an odd choice to kick off a campaign for controversial changes to NASA that will require billions of taxpayer dollars, but that's the date the White House has in mind. T ...

Chile Earthquake Moved Entire City 10 Feet West

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(March 8) -- Last month's earthquake did more than kill hundreds and devastate a large swath of Chile. It also hurtled the entire city of Concepcion 10 feet to the west, according researchers at the ...

Drinking Alcohol May Help Women Stay Thin

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(March 8) -- Women around the world are lifting their glasses to the news: Moderate drinking may help keep the pounds off. That finding comes from a new study published in the March 8 issue of the Ar ...

Body's First Line of Defense Depends on Sunshine Vitamin

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(March 8) -- Your body's first line of defense can benefit from an ample dose of the sunshine vitamin, according to a new study that examined the link between vitamin D and human immunity. Estimates ...

Proof of Man-Made Global Warming Grows 'Stronger'

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LONDON (March 5) -- Climate scientists have hit back at skeptics with the publication of a new paper that says the case for man-made global warming is now "stronger than ever." An international team ...

Indonesian Villages Cash In on 'Hobbit' Craze

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RAMPASASA, Indonesia (March 7) - I started hearing the offers soon after arriving at the Liang Bua cave in the mountains of Flores island. "You want to see a living hobbit?" a guard at the cave whisp ...