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Huge Antenna Launched Into Space

A US satellite carrying the biggest commercial antenna reflector ever put in space has been launched successfully from Baikonur in Kazakhstan. The mesh structure on the Skyterra-1 spacecraft is...


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Energy Drinks With Hidden Risks

  Energy drinks are hugely popular, but each one could be giving you more caffeine than a cup of coffee, a study said. In addition, that caffeine could combine with other ingredients in potenti...


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Spillcam & Vuvuzela Declared Top Words Of 2010

"Spillcam" and "vuvuzela" were the top words of 2010, reflecting the global impact of the months-long oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the noisy South African horns at the World Cup soccer tourna...


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Biometric System On Foreign Tourist

The biometric system to record the identity of foreign tourists will be implemented next month, said Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein. "Implementation of the biometric system at ...


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Virus Outbreak In Chile Salmon Farm

Chile's national marine fisheries service (SERNAPESCA) has declared an Infectious Salmon Anemia (ISA) outbreak on a salmon farm in the Magallanes Region (XII). The virus was detected yesterday wh...


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Trial On Sex Education Receives Good results

The module for a more holistic approach to sex education is ready to be implemented in Forms one, two and four, the National Population and Family Development Board revealed. Its director-general...


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Developing World In Obesity Warning

Developing countries should act now to head off their own "obesity epidemic", says a global policy group. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) says obesity levels are ...


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Worst Might Be Over On Volcano

The worst might be over on Indonesia's Mount Merapi volcano, disaster officials said. They urged calm in the aftermath of recent eruptions, which started on October 26 and have killed 191 people....


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Brain Injury May Link To Young Crimes

Young offenders are more likely to have suffered a brain injury compared with the rest of society, a study suggests. A survey of 197 young male offenders found about half reported having had a chi...


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Amazon Row Over Paedophile Book

A self-published guide giving advice to paedophiles that is for sale through online retailer Amazon is stirring up controversy on the internet, with some threatening to boycott the website. The av...


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Unrecorded Lizard Species At Lunch Buffet

It may be an old menu standby to Vietnamese diners, but it's turned into a smorgasbord of discovery for scientists. Researchers have identified a previously undocumented species of all-female liz...


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Singapore Seen Overtaking Malaysia 45 Years

Forty-five years after Singapore’s expulsion from a union with Malaysia left Lee Kuan Yew in tears on national television, the economy of the city-state he led to independence is poised to overtak...


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Webb Space Telescope Costs Balloon

The scale of the delay and cost overrun blighting Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope has been laid bare by a panel called in to review the project. The successor to Hubble will probably cost at le...


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Leading Phone Makers Lose Market Share

The world's leading mobile phone makers are losing market share to non-brand manufacturers, according to research. Analysts at Gartner say smaller, Asian companies accounted for a third of worldwi...


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Whales Suffer Effects Of Sunburn

The Sun's rays can "burn" whales' skin, just like they can damage human skin, according to a team of researchers. The scientists studied more than 150 whales in the Gulf of California. By taking...


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Aussies Want To Work Fewer Hours

Australians want to spend less time at work, according to a new survey prompting calls for caps to be put on the working week. More than 1,700 people were quizzed on their work-life balance in a ...


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Nuke Debris Clue To Bomb Origin

Forensic analysis of the debris left after a nuclear explosion could yield crucial evidence about the composition and the origin of the bomb, say scientists. A US team examined Trinitite, the glas...


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Painkillers Risky In Pregnancy

Prolonged use of paracetamol and other painkillers during pregnancy may pose a health risk to baby boys, warn experts. Danish research suggests the drugs raise the risk of undescended testicles in...


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Radiation Cut Prostate Cancer

Deaths from high-risk prostate cancer can be cut by giving men radiation treatment as well as hormonal therapy, research by Cardiff University has shown. A trial of 1,200 men with prostate cancer ...


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Clue To Drug-Free HIV Control

Tiny changes to an "alarm" protein which responds to infections may explain why some with HIV can control their condition without drugs. Around one in 300 people with HIV are "controllers", and sc...


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Google Blocks Data From Facebook

Google Inc will begin blocking Facebook and other Web services from accessing its users' information, highlighting an intensifying rivalry between the two Internet giants. Google will no longer le...


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Vitamin E Linked To Stroke Risk

Taking vitamin E could slightly increase the risk of a particular type of stroke, a study says. The British Medical Journal study found that for every 1,250 people there is the chance of one extra...


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Spacecraft Snaps Images Of Comet

A spacecraft survived the closest encounter ever with a comet, tracking it just 435 miles from the comet's nucleus. Mission control at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, br...


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Dell To Switch Over To Own Smartphone

Dell Inc will shift thousands of its employees off Research in Motion Ltd's BlackBerry and over to Dell's smartphones. The money-saving switch affects the roughly 25,000 Dell employees who carry...


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Asustek To Join Tablet Parade Coming January

Taiwan's Asustek Computer Inc is set to start selling its first tablet computers in January next year, joining other tech rivals to compete with Apple Inc in the fast-growing market. An Asustek of...


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Autism Brain Secrets Revealed By Scan

Differences in the brain structure of people carrying an "autism gene" may offer clues to how the condition develops, say US scientists. Scans revealed children carrying the gene variant appeared ...


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Stressful Birth May Lead To Agression

Babies who undergo a difficult birth and are delivered using forceps are more likely to develop problems such as aggression during childhood compared with those born by Caesarean section, according ...


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Peanuts During Pregnancy May Lead To Allergy

The children of mothers who ate a lot of peanuts while pregnant may be at an increased risk of developing an allergy to the nut -- and the more peanuts the mothers ate, the greater the chances, a st...


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Mobile Phones To Unlock Hotel Room Doors

Visitors to a Stockholm hotel will be able to use mobile phones instead of keys to unlock the doors to their rooms. Assa Abloy AB, the world's largest maker of door locks, has launched a pilot in ...


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Singapore Opens Solar Manufacturing Facility

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong opened one of the world's largest integrated solar manufacturing facilities, a Norwegian investment, in Tuas. The S$2.5 billion facility, built by Renewab...


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