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First-light For Africa's Giant Eye: First Color Images From SALT
Five years after groundbreaking, the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) project has released its first color images, marking the achievement of 'first light' and the successful debut of SALTICAM, a $600 000 digital camera built for SALT at the South African Astronomical Observatory. SALT is the largest optical telescope in the southern hemisphere, and equal to the largest in the world. SALT can detect objects as faint as a candle flame on the moon. [Scary] Pregnant woman says 'maternal instinct' helped her kill attack
FORT MITCHELL, Ky. - A pregnant woman who killed her attacker said a maternal instinct helped her fight off the woman who investigators believe was after her unborn child."I do believe that I fought harder because it was for my child,"Sarah Brady told ABC's "Good Morning America"in interviews aired Sunday and Monday. "It is a maternal instinct to protect your child to the very end."Katherine Smith, 22, died Thursday after luring Brady to her apartment to pick up a package supposedly delivered to the wrong address. When Smith pulled out a knife and attacked the pregnant woman, Brady fought back, striking Smith on the head with an ash tray and stabbing her three times with her own knife, police said. Brady, 26, said she didn't know Smith before the two met at Smith's apartment and can't be certain why Smith wanted to kill her."I really am not sure what was going through her mind,"Brady told ABC. "The only thing I thought was that she was going to kill me and my child and that is the only thing that ran through my mind." Young Leukemia And Lymphoma Patients Live Longer Today Than In Years P
A new analysis has found that adolescents and young adults who were recently diagnosed with blood-related cancers have better long-term survival rates than those who were diagnosed in the 1980s. Mapping The Neural Landscape Of Hunger
The compelling urge to satisfy one's hunger enlists structures throughout the brain, as might be expected in a process so necessary for survival. But until now, studies of those structures and of the feeding cycle have been only fragmentary -- measuring brain regions only at specific times in the feeding cycle. Thought-reading Computers, Sleep, And Molecular Imaging Advance Stroke
Advanced technologies such as molecular imaging, sensory substitution devices, and programs that translate brain signals to a computer monitor are accelerating the pace of stroke research. And even an old-fashioned technique -- a good night's sleep -- helps patients remember new motor skills, according to new studies. Genetic Diversity In Honeybee Colonies Boosts Productivity
Honeybee queens tend to be promiscuous to produce genetically diverse colonies, report two Cornell researchers in Science. Such colonies are far more productive and hardy than genetically uniform colonies produced by monogamous queens, they report. Can Engineered Immune Cells Stop AIDS?
Researchers in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering are exploring a way to manipulate the body's natural defense system, using modified "lentiviruses"to reprogram bone marrow cells, directing them to produce specific antibodies. Intel Moves on Graphics Project
Recent Intel recruitment indicates the company is ramping up to put together a high-end graphics team. Plus: Super Bowl inspires an HDTV surge. In Gadget Lab. [Odd] A Romanian couple has named their son Yahoo as a sign of gratitu
Daily Libertatea said on Thursday Cornelia and Nonu Dragoman, both from Transylvania, met and decided they were meant for each other following a three-month relationship over the net.They married and had a baby this Christmas, whom they decided to name after one of the worldwide web's most popular portals."We named him Lucian Yahoo after my father and the net, the main beacon of my life,"Cornelia Dragoman was quoted as saying. Two Studies Find Evidence That Sunlight May Have Beneficial Influence
Two new studies in the February 2 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute have found that sun exposure may have a beneficial influence on some types of cancer. One study found an association between sun exposure and increased survival from melanoma, a potentially deadly form of skin cancer for which sun exposure is a risk factor, while the other found an association between sun exposure and a reduced risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
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