AP - 9/10/2010 10:11 AM
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2010-09-10T17:11:06Z
BAGHDAD (AP) -- The American Embassy spokesman in Iraq says the United States and Iraq have signed an agreement to settle claims of Americans who say they were abused by Saddam Hussein's regime....
AP - 9/10/2010 10:08 AM
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LAURAN NEERGAARD
2010-09-10T17:08:59Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government said Friday it's back in the business of funding embryonic stem cell research - at least for now - after an appeals court temporarily lifted a judge's ban....
NPR - 9/10/2010 10:00 AM
- Energy
A review in Consumer Reports says it's good news so many products have become energy efficient but calls for strengthening Energy Star standards to guide consumers to truly efficient products. Ira Flatow and guests discuss that report and overlooked ways people can save energy at home.
NPR - 9/10/2010 10:00 AM
- Science
In his book The Perfect Swarm, Len Fisher talks about swarm intelligence -- where the collective ideas of a group add up to better solutions than any individual could have dreamed up, including an example of how UPS reorganized its driving routes using the logic of an ant colony.
NPR - 9/10/2010 10:00 AM
- Science
New data from sensitive airborne altimetry combined with undersea sensors is giving scientists better insight into how major storms can rapidly reshape coastlines. Reporter Sid Perkins discusses his Science News article on the scouring power of major storms.
NPR - 9/10/2010 10:00 AM
- Health
Ads urge men of a certain age to get screened for prostate cancer. But is "test early, test often" the best approach? Otis Brawley of the American Cancer Society and Mark Scholz, author of Invasion Of The Prostate Snatchers, discuss other approaches.
NPR - 9/10/2010 10:00 AM
- Science
Twenty-five years ago this month, researchers first identified buckminsterfullerenes -- a previously undiscovered form of carbon shaped like a tiny soccer ball. Harry Kroto, who shared the Nobel Prize for the discovery, explains what's been learned about fullerenes since.
NPR - 9/10/2010 10:00 AM
- Dance
Evolutionary psychologist Nick Neave filmed men dancing, converted the videos into dancing avatars and asked women to rate the avatars' dancing ability. The researchers found that the highly rated male dancers had some moves in common. Some advice: Shake that right knee.
NPR - 9/10/2010 10:00 AM
- Research News
Reporting in the journal Science, researchers write that mosquitoes can fight off infection by the malaria parasite, and that their immune response is even more efficient the second time. Study author Carolina Barillas-Mury discusses whether mosquitoes themselves could help eradicate malaria.
AP - 9/10/2010 12:09 AM
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2010-09-10T07:09:23Z
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) -- Toyota will build a 300 million Australian dollars ($277 million) plant in Melbourne that will produce greener engines that deliver reduced carbon emissions, the company said Friday....
NPR - 9/9/2010 11:46 AM
- Medical Treatments
Doctors can easily tell whether a child's body is growing normally. But they have a much harder time assessing the brain. Now, using a new type of MRI scan, they can more accurately determine a child's "brain age" and help identify children with developmental problems.
AP - 9/9/2010 10:21 AM
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RANDOLPH E. SCHMID
2010-09-09T17:21:36Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The La Nina climate phenomenon is strengthening, increasing the likelihood an active hurricane season could get even busier....
AP - 9/9/2010 8:52 AM
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MARIA CHENG
2010-09-09T15:52:15Z
LONDON (AP) -- John Travolta was onto something. Women are most attracted to male dancers who have big, flamboyant moves similar to the actor's trademark style, British scientists say in a new study....
NPR - 9/8/2010 9:00 PM
- The Two-Way
The retired admiral tells Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep about challenges he's faced as national incident commander for the spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
NPR - 9/8/2010 9:00 PM
- Krulwich Wonders?
Two of the most important human footsteps ever taken -- one on the moon in 1969, the other over three million years ago -- have both been preserved thanks to extraordinary circumstances. They reveal the curious nature of humanity.
NPR - 9/8/2010 6:58 PM
- Brain Wars: How The Military Is Failing Its Wounded
Traumatic brain injury, or TBI, is a sudden trauma to the brain caused by force. A severe TBI can leave a person almost incapable of functioning. But even a mild TBI, a concussion, can lead to a range of debilitating symptoms.
AP - 9/8/2010 1:03 PM
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MARCIA DUNN
2010-09-08T20:03:09Z
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- The unprecedented turtle rescue effort at NASA's Kennedy Space Center is winding down....
NPR - 9/8/2010 1:00 PM
- Health
For years, trombone player Scott Bean had a cough that wouldn't quit. A doctor later figured out that mold and bacteria living in his trombone caused him to develop a condition that's being called "trombone players' lung."
AP - 9/8/2010 11:26 AM
By
SETH BORENSTEIN
2010-09-08T18:26:59Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The weird world of dinosaurs has just gotten a tad more bizarre. Scientists found a nearly complete fossil of a new dinosaur that sports a noticeable hump, maybe as possible advertising....
AP - 9/8/2010 11:17 AM
By
MARCIA DUNN
2010-09-08T18:17:26Z
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- A water main break at NASA's spaceport put launch preparations on temporary hold Wednesday for the next-to-last shuttle flight....
NPR - 9/8/2010 8:20 AM
- Around the Nation
The oil giant's 193-page report says a sequence of failures led to the massive Gulf of Mexico spill that fouled waters and shorelines for months. The company's findings are far from the final word on possible causes of the explosion that sank the Deepwater Horizon drill rig.
NPR - 9/8/2010 6:03 AM
- Shots - Health News Blog
A federal judge ruled the government is wrong about a "parade of horribles" that a stay on funding of researcher involving human embryonic stem cells would have on the field. He refused to lift a preliminary injunction imposed last month.
AP - 9/8/2010 4:35 AM
By
ROB GRIFFITH
2010-09-08T11:35:10Z
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) -- A strong aftershock rocked terrified residents of New Zealand's earthquake-stricken city of Christchurch on Wednesday, as officials doubled their estimate for repairing the damage following nearly 300 temblors in five days....
AP - 9/7/2010 3:15 PM
By
SETH BORENSTEIN
2010-09-07T22:15:23Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Government scientists studying the BP disaster are reporting the best possible outcome: Microbes are consuming the oil in the Gulf without depleting the oxygen in the water and creating "dead zones" where fish cannot survive....
NPR - 9/7/2010 12:00 PM
- Environment
Government scientists say they are seeing a zone in the Gulf of Mexico that has below-normal levels of oxygen. That indicates bacteria in the area are consuming some of the oil that spewed from BP's well.
