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Swedish doctors transplant wombs into nine women

Jan 14, 2014

The Swedish research team practices before the operations to transplant wombs at Sahlgrenska Hospital in Goteborg, Sweden. (AP-Yonhap News) STOCKHOLM (AP) ― Nine women in Sweden have successfully re...
Hong Kong suffers in smog as pollution problems rise

Jan 13, 2014

A general view of Hong Kong (AFP-Yonhap News) HONG KONG (AFP) ― The new year has revived old problems for Hong Kong as a murky smog blankets the usually glittering skyline, fueling complaints from l...
Virgin Galactic spaceship makes third powered test flight

Jan 12, 2014

Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo, a six-passenger, two-pilot spacecraft aiming to make the world’s first commercial suborbital spaceflights later this year, conducted its third rocket-powered test flig...
Mars rover photos featured at U.S. museum

Jan 8, 2014

This image provided by NASA, shows rover tracks disappearing toward the horizon in a sea of sand between the craters Endurance and Victoria on the Meridiani Plains. (AP-Yonhap News) WASHINGTON (AP) ...
Long shots: Galaxies from 13.2b years ago

Jan 8, 2014

This undated image shows galaxies in the Abell 2744 cluster, and blue galaxies behind it, distorted and amplified by gravitational lensing. (AP) WASHINGTON (AP) ― The Hubble Space Telescope has peer...
One-way trip to Mars? Sign me up, says Frenchwoman

Jan 8, 2014

Mars One CEO Bas Lansdorp holds a press conference to announce the launch of astronaut selection for a Mars space mission project, in New York, on April 22. (AFP) PARIS (AFP) ― A comfortable, middle...
Earth appears to be an oddity, astronomers say

Jan 7, 2014

The image of the Earth, taken by the Apollo 8 astronauts on Dec. 24, 1968. (AFP) WASHINGTON (AFP) ― Astronomers call them super-Earths, and they are abundant outside our solar system. But the more e...
Eating nuts caused tooth decay in hunter-gatherers: study

Jan 7, 2014

WASHINGTON (AFP) ― Eating nuts and acorns may have helped hunter-gatherers survive 15,000 years ago in northern Africa but the practice wreaked havoc on their teeth, researchers said Monday. Ferment...
Vast water reservoir beneath Greenland ice

Dec 23, 2013

PARIS (AFP) ― A vast store of water equivalent in area to Ireland lies beneath Greenland’s icesheet, and it may provide answers to one of the big riddles of climate change, scientists reported on Sun...
Cat-mouse game might explain how felines got tame

Dec 17, 2013

NEW YORK (AP) ― A cat-and-mouse game played out in a Chinese village some 5,300 years ago is helping scientists understand how wild felines transformed into the tame pets we know today. In fact, it ...
Iran sends second monkey into space

Dec 15, 2013

TEHRAN (AP) ― Iran said Saturday it has successfully sent a monkey into space for a second time, part of an ambitious program aimed at manned space flight. Iran’s state TV said that the launch of th...
Astronaut may get Christmas wish for spacewalk

Dec 15, 2013

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) ― Space station astronaut Rick Mastracchio may get his Christmas wish for a spacewalk or two because of a broken cooling system. Mastracchio, an experienced spacewalker,...
Actor’s science contest asks: What is color?

Dec 12, 2013

MINEOLA, New York (AP) ― Alan Alda, the actor-turned-part-time professor, has a new question for scientists to consider: How do you explain color to an 11-year-old? The television and film star best...
U.S. issues rules for removing antibiotics from farms

Dec 12, 2013

WASHINGTON (AFP) ― In response to concerns about the rise in drug-resistant superbugs worldwide, U.S. regulators Wednesday issued voluntary guidelines to help cut back on antibiotics routinely fed to...
Viewing news of trauma worse than experiencing it

Dec 11, 2013

WASHINGTON (AFP) ― After the Boston marathon bombings, people who spent six hours a day scouring media for updates were more traumatized than those who were actually there, a U.S. study suggested. T...