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NASA lander in OK shape, photo caught Mars landing
Posted by Jeff from Seattle Post-Intelligencer
On Monday, NASA released a black-and-white image captured during Phoenix's descent by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which had a bird's-eye view of the lander hanging from its parachute. It's the first time a spacecraft had taken an image of another craft during landing.
NASA - 100 Explosions on the Moon
Posted by Damianmann from NASA
Not so long ago, anyone claiming to see flashes of light on the Moon would be viewed with deep suspicion by professional astronomers. Such reports were filed under L … for lunatic. Not anymore. Over the past two and a half years, NASA astronomers have observed the Moon flashing at them not just once but one hundred times.
Brain hormone oxytocin helps people regain trust - swissinfo
Posted by slicely
Scientists from Zurich University have discovered that the "love hormone" oxytocin can help foster trust after a betrayal of trust.
Bush signs bill to prevent discrimination based on genetic testing
Posted by MikeS from CBC
The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act was signed into law today by President Bush. With genetic tests available over the internet at a price many people can afford, there has been a strong lobby for a law that will help safeguard how that information is being used. The law will make it illegal for employers or insurance companies to use genetic information as a basis for discrimination. The law was first put forward 10 years ago but faced stiff opposition. Many people see this as the law finally catching up with the technology.
Exploding star caught in the act - BBC
Posted by robynoratocom from BBC News
Astronomers have been able to capture and record the first moments when a massive star blows itself apart.
MPs vote for human-animal hybrid embryos - Telegraph
Posted by MikeS from Telegraph.c
In a debate that covered the range from pure science to bioethics to science fiction images, British legislators voted earlier this week to allow stem cell researchers to work with animal-human embryos. This means that researchers will be able to inject human DNA into empty cow or rabbit eggs. Depending on where people stand on the bioethics continuum this has been seen as either a huge leap ahead of research in other countries or a leap into uncharted and shadowy medical territory.
Book Review: The Woman Who Can't Forget
Posted by Jeff from newsweek.com
With eight months left in 2008, it might be premature to choose the weirdest book of the year, but "The Woman Who Can't Forget," the memoir of a 42-year-old California woman named Jill Price, will be hard to beat. It poses a thought-provoking question-what would it be like to recall almost every day of your life since childhood?
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