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Tuesday, 22 July 2008 |
As reported by many news sources (but incorrect in their information), NASA announced on July 21, 2008, that the U.S. space agency has no plans to purchase the H-2 Transfer Vehicle (HTV) from Japan. In fact, NASA has stated it will "depend on [U.S.] commercial resupply of cargo delivery to the station."
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Tuesday, 22 July 2008 |
The International Astronomical Union recently recognized Makemake as a dwarf planet and classified it as a plutoid. Makemake, the celestial body, was named after Makemake, the bird-man god of Easter Island.
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Tuesday, 22 July 2008 |
According to a Japanese newspaper, U.S. officials with NASA are negotiating with officials of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) about the purchase of several unmanned cargo vehicles, called H-2 Transfer Vehicles, which would be used to re-supply the International Space Station.
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Monday, 21 July 2008 |
British researchers at Cambridge University have used brain scans, for the first time, to see differences in the brains of OCD patients when compared to the brains of people without the psychological brain disorder. Such brain scans could one day help to earlier and more accurately diagnosis obsessive-compulsive disorder in humans.
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Monday, 21 July 2008 |
A new U.S. study shows that postmenopausal women had increased risk of strokes if they sleep less than six hours a night or more than nine hours.
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Sunday, 20 July 2008 |
The Cochrane Collaboration reviewed the use of the breast self-exam (BSE). It based its conclusions on two studies that together gathered data from 388,535 Chinese and Russian women. The CC study found that the BSE does not help, and actually harms women.
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Sunday, 20 July 2008 |
According to a July 16, 2008 press release by the Harvard School of Public Health, the U.S. tobacco industry, which includes the largest U.S. tobacco company Philip Morris/Altria, is systematically manipulating the menthol content of cigarettes in order to attract new adolescent and young adult smokers.
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Saturday, 19 July 2008 |
According to a press release of the Japanese space agency, a “halo” has been photographed by the Terrain Camera onboard its SELENE (Kaguya) spacecraft, which shows the exact location of the NASA Apollo 15 Moon landing. Skeptics of the NASA Apollo missions to the Moon four decades ago may have to eat moondust!
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Saturday, 19 July 2008 |
On July 18, 1969, 39 years ago, the three astronauts aboard the NASA Apollo 11 spacecraft were winging their way to the Moon for humankind's first manned landing on an extraterrestrial body. Their remarkable journey is recorded in an old NASA document with interesting names for their space vehicles.
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Saturday, 19 July 2008 |
According to the recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) by the CDC, between 2005 and 2007 the percentage of adults being obese went up by almost 2%. Southerners are worse than the rest of the country, with Alabama being the most obese state in the United States.
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Friday, 18 July 2008 |
According to a new Israel-U.S.-Canada study on three popular diet plans, moderately obese dieters lost, on average, only six to ten pounds over a two-year period. However, they were able to reduce their cholesterol level and other important indicators of health.
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