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  • Researchers sub feathers for petroleum in plastic

    2011-05-10 09:47

    Researchers have developed ways to substitute chicken feathers for petroleum in some plastic products, and at least two US companies are working to bring items ranging from biodegradable flower pots to office furniture to market.

  • Computer reliance may lower creativity

    2011-05-10 09:06

    Technology may have a harmful effect on children's development and creativity, Australia's report found on Tuesday.

  • Computer reliance may lower children's creativity

    2011-05-10 08:41

    Technology may have a harmful effect on children's development and creativity, Australia's report found on Tuesday.

  • Maori head returns to New Zealand after 136 years

    2011-05-09 22:23

    A French museum has returned the mummified and tattooed head of a Maori to New Zealand officials after spending 136 years in a Normandy museum, a belated gesture to restore dignity to the first of 16 such human heads once displayed as exotic curiosities.

  • Artificial cat ears react to brainwaves

    2011-05-09 16:49

    Strap-on artificial cat ears have abilities to wiggle, twitch, perk up or flop down by responding to user's brainwaves.

  • One in 38 kids in S Korea may have autism

    2011-05-09 13:53

    One out of every 38 children in South Korea may have autism, a surprisingly high number based on a new research approach that suggests autism is a global problem that is significantly underdiagnosed, researchers said on Monday.

  • WWF takes images of rare tigers

    2011-05-09 10:50

    The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has recorded images of 12 endangered Sumatran tigers, including a mother playing with cubs, in an Indonesian forest that it said is about to be cleared by loggers.

  • European robotic soccer competition in Kosovo

    2011-05-06 12:19

    Students' robots move around a specially designed miniature soccer pitch during the European robotic soccer competition at the University of Business and Technology in Kosovo's capital Pristina May 5, 2011.

  • Telescope array seeking alien life shut by cutbacks

    2011-05-06 11:13

    The search for intelligent life in the universe beyond planet Earth has been dealt a major blow by government spending cutbacks in the United States.

  • Space tourism craft, a step closer

    2011-05-05 15:50

    High over the Mojave Desert, the stubby-winged SpaceShipTwo bent itself into a near-right angle shape and plunged nearly straight downward for more than a minute before unfolding and gliding to a runway landing before an excited crowd.

  • 50th anniversary of the 1st US spaceman

    2011-05-06 10:01

    The United States space program was down and out when Alan Shepard climbed inside a one-man capsule on May 5, 1961, for a 15-minute ride.

  • NASA confirms Einstein GP-B equation

    2011-05-05 15:43

    The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced Wednesday that its Gravity Probe B (GP-B) mission has confirmed two key predictions derived from Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, which the spacecraft was designed to test.

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