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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves an over-the-counter laser device to treat wrinkles around the eyes. Palomar Medical Technologies makes the announcement on Thursday, June 4, 2009, and Wall Street likes the idea. And, likely, so will people with wrinkles around their eyes!
One in 12 U.S. teens are depressed. Three times more will be depressed at some point in their early lives. A large study shows that getting help quickly with cognitive behavioral (CB) prevention is better than traditional methods to combat teen depression.
On Wednesday, June 3, 2009, NASA gave the official “thumb’s up” for the launch of space shuttle Endeavour and its STS-127 crew to the International Space Station. It’s another assembly mission as NASA steadily makes progress for the completion of the Station.
According to the National Climate Centre in Australia, there is a greater chance than normal of an El Niño event in 2009. The meteorologists there predict the odds of an El Niño are well above 50%, which is over double the normal percentage.
NASA announced on May 31, 2009, that its Launch Pad 39B at Cape Canaveral, Kennedy Space Center, has been transferred from the Shuttle Program to the new Constellation Program. Pad 39B will be readied for the first flight test of its new Ares I rocket, now scheduled for August 2009.
Lead by scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, a team of researchers has successfully shown that, in theory, human diseases can be cured using gene therapy and stem cells. There’s much more work to accomplish, but this research is highly important for eventually curing cancers and other such diseases.
The world’s largest and most energetic laser system was just dedicated on Friday, May 29, 2009, at the U.S. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The mission of the National Ignition Facility is to better national security, provide breakthroughs in astrophysics, and create fusion energy.
National Institutes of Health researchers reveal that about one thousand species of bacteria like to call your skin their home. However, on the bright side, most of the bacteria are helpful for a healthy body.
The U.S. space agency NASA has contracted with the Russian Federal Space Agency (RSA, or Roskosmos) for crew transportation and related services to the International Space Station for the years 2012 and 2013.
NASA has a mannequin that is anatomically correct with respect to the human torso. Fred stays up in space at the International Space Station so that he can simulate the amount of radiation, especially galactic cosmic rays (GCRs), that hits astronauts while in outer space. Ouch again!
The International Space Station Expedition 20 crew launched from the Baikonou Cosmodrome on Wednesday, May 27, 2009. When they shake hands with the current ISS Expedition 19 crew already onboard the ISS, their meeting will mark the expansion of the Space Station from three to six crewmembers.
Sky watchers around the world have been seeing a treat lately as they witness strong, but unpredictable, flares coming off the recently enlarged International Space Station as it flies across their local night sky.
A U.S. research study has found that memory activities that involve social interaction, such as the game of bridge, help people 90 years and older to stay sharp. Diet and exercise, the researchers found, doesn’t help. Who’s ready to shuffle the cards?
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Worldwide shipments of smartphones reached a high of nearly 40 million units in the third quarter of 2008, helping to grow the category by 28% from the same quarter last year.
