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Key Milestone In Antifungal Treatment For Severe Asthma
University of Manchester researchers announced today that they have reached a key milestone in theirstudy of the antifungal treatment of asthma. [Funny] A referee has sent himself off in an English amateur league ma
Andy Wain had to abandon the Sunday league match between Peterborough North End and a Royal Mail side in the 63rd minute after throwing down his whistle and marching up to confront North End's keeper. The Colossal Cosmic Eye: ESO's VLT Captures Image Of Spiral Galaxy NG
A new colour image of the beautiful spiral galaxy NGC 1350, shaped as a colossal cosmic eye, has just been released. It is based on data collected with the FORS2 instrument on the Very Large Telescope and shows an amazing number of details. The image is completed by a map of the Fornax Cluster of Galaxies. Robo Builders: Fabbed Housing
According to a British rag, the first prototype of a robot-built house will be erected in California this spring. Not a builder in sight (or is that on site?) when the two-story concrete and gypsum pre-fab shell goes up in 24 hours. In Beyond the Beyond. Jan. 13, 2004: Duck!
How close to doom did we really come when an asteroid's path seemed to head for Earth in a collision course? Film at 11. Compiled by Tony Long. Rapid Warming Caused Vegetation Changes
Fossil leaves buried 55 million years ago show, for the first time, that rapid warming not only changed animal communities, but plant communities as well; and that the ancient warm spell may be representative of global warming's effects in Earth's future, according to an international team of researchers. [Ironic] An Italian pensioner committed suicide after his wife fell in
Recalling the end of Romeo and Juliet, the 70-year-old man, Ettore, who had sat by his wife's bedside for four months after she slipped into a coma following a heart attack, finally gave up hope and gassed himself in the garage of his family home.Less than a day later, his wife, Rossana, woke up in her hospital bed in Padua and immediately asked for him. Gene Variants Predict Bleeding After Heart Surgery
Duke University Medical Center researchers have found that the presence of specific variants of genes that control clotting and the contractility, or "tone,"of blood vessels can double the ability of physicians to predict those heart surgery patients at greatest risk of bleeding after surgery. More Bass, Less Space
A new subwoofer design delivers booming bass from a slim, compact tube, bringing low-end punch to places it's never been before. TVs, iPod docks and desktop speakers could sound as rich and spacious as your home stereo. By Dan Orzech. Mountain Winds May Create Atmospheric Hotspots
Rapidly fluctuating wind gusts blowing over mountains and hills can create "hotspots"high in the atmosphere and significantly affect regional air temperatures. Such winds can create high-frequency acoustic waves and could stimulate a 1000-Kelvin spike in a short period of time.
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