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Are cancers newly evolved speciesBerkeley CA (SPX) Aug 01, 2011 Cancer patients may view their tumors as parasites taking over their bodies, but this is more than a metaphor for Peter Duesberg, a molecular and cell biology professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Cancerous tumors are parasitic organisms, he said. Each one is a new species that, like most parasites, depends on its host for food, but otherwise operates independently and often to the detriment of its host. In a paper published in the July 1 issue of the journal Cell Cycle, Duesb ... read more |
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  China launches another experimental satellite China launched an experimental orbiter into space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gansu Province on Friday. The SJ-11-02 orbiter was sent into space at 3:42 p.m. ... more | .. |
  Schriever NOPS ranks as AFSPC best space ops squadron People familiar with Schriever Air Force Base have grown accustomed to hearing the "SOPS" acronym. The 50th Space Wing has plenty of them: one through four, 21, 22 and 23 SOPS. They're all space ope ... more | .. |
  Russia to carry out 3 space launches in August Russia's space agency Roscosmos said on Friday it is planning to launch two satellites and a space freighter next month. The Express-AM4 satellite will be launched on August 18 on board a Prot ... more | .. |
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  NASA Satellite Tracks Severity of African Drought Northeast Africa continues to reel from the effects of the worst drought to strike the region in decades. The arid conditions are contributing to famines that the U.S. Department of State says are a ... more | .. |
  Virgin Galactic Appoints Its First Chief Financial Officer In this newly created role, Sunshine will be responsible for managing the company's financial strategy, driving growth and overseeing all finance and accounting functions as Virgin Galactic transiti ... more | .. |
 Tropical Storm Muifa appears huge on NASA infrared imagery The width of an image from the AIRS instrument that flies on NASA's Aqua satellite is about 1700 km (1056 miles), and the clouds and thunderstorms associate with Tropical Storm Muifa take up that en ... more | .. |
  United Launch Alliance Saves Money with First Combined Atlas and Delta Shipments on Mariner United Launch Alliance (ULA) completed Friday the first combined Atlas and Delta rocket shipment from its factory in Decatur, Ala., to the launch site at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., on t ... more |
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  What Lies Inside Jupiter Jupiter's swirling clouds can be seen through any department store telescope. With no more effort than it takes to bend over an eyepiece, you can witness storm systems bigger than Earth navigating r ... more | .. |
  New Webb Telescope Technologies Already Helping Human Eyes Even while construction of the James Webb Space Telescope is underway on the most advanced infrared vision of any space observatory, its technologies are already proving useful to human eye health h ... more | .. |
  BSkyB sweetens shareholders, James Murdoch remains boss British pay-TV giant BSkyB offered its shareholders over Pounds 1.0 billion in payouts Friday as it moves on from a failed takeover bid and phone-hacking scandal involving Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. ... more | .. |
 NASA's Juno to circle Jupiter for 'planetary recipe' The US space agency plans to launch next week a solar-powered spacecraft called Juno that will journey to the gassy planet of Jupiter in search of how the huge, stormy giant was formed. ... more |
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  Diamond Impurities Bonanza for Geologists Studying Earth's History Jewelers abhor diamond impurities, but they are a bonanza for scientists. Safely encased in super-hard diamond, impurities are unaltered, ancient minerals that tell the story of Earth's distant past ... more | .. |
  SOHO Watches a Comet Fading Away On Nov. 4, 2010, NASA's EPOXI spacecraft came within 450 miles of Comet Hartley 2, a small comet not even a mile in diameter, which takes about six and a half years to orbit the sun. Designated offi ... more | .. |
  Voyage to Vaccine Discovery Continues with Space Station Salmonella Study Any scientist can tell you that research is a time-consuming pursuit. In fact, it can take decades to show results, as the knowledge compounds and inspires additional studies. This building of ... more | .. |
 China to launch experimental satellite in coming days China's Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on Thursday said it will launch an experimental orbiter in the coming days. The orbiter, SJ-11-02, will be carried into space by China's indigenous Long ... more |
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Experts warn of urgent need to address human reproduction risks in space
Engineered microbes use light to build new molecules
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 Hunting For Worms From Hell If you're on a quest for "worms from Hell," you have to be prepared for some tough going. You have to be an intrepid adventurer and a scientific risk-taker, someone with a high tolerance for discomf ... more | .. |
 Dawn Views Dark Side of Vesta Dawn took this image over Vesta's northern hemisphere after the spacecraft completed its first passage over the dark side of the giant asteroid. It is northern hemisphere winter on Vesta now, so its ... more | .. |
 Vietnam Selecting Belgium For Second EO Satellite The government of Vietnam decided to go ahead with a second microsatellite for earth observations, through its VNREDSAT (Vietnam Natural Resources Environment and Disaster monitoring small Satellite ... more | .. |
  Sweet 16 For Alma As First European Antenna Reaches The High Site The ALMA project, that will revolutionize our knowledge of the Universe, now has a sufficient number of antennas in place to produce its first science observations. The 16th antenna, also the first ... more |
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  Toucans wearing GPS backpacks help Smithsonian scientists study seed dispersal Nutmeg-loving toucans wearing GPS transmitters recently helped a team of scientists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama address an age-old problem in plant ecology: accurately e ... more | .. |
 Why Tiangong is not a Station Hub There's been another round of inaccurate reporting in the Chinese media about China's Tiangong space laboratory. Stories have claimed that Tiangong 1, due to be launched within two months, is the co ... more | .. |
 'Trojan' asteroid shares Earth's orbit Earth is not alone in its orbit around the Sun - a small 'Trojan' asteroid sits in front of our planet and leads it, according to British science revue Nature, which published the discovery Thursday. ... more | .. |
 NASA AIRS Movies Show Evolution of US 2011 Heat Wave The continuing heat wave in the United States in July 2011 has broken temperature records in many locations, killed dozens and seen nearly half of all Americans under heat advisories at its peak. ... more |
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  Trail Of Crumbs Discovered From Potentially Hazardous Comet A telegram was issued on July 10th by the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams of the International Astronomical Union announcing that the Earth got impacted for a few hours by a stream of dust ... more | .. |
  Messenger Makes Another Successful Orbit Adjustment The Messenger spacecraft continued to fine-tune its orbit around Mercury yesterday afternoon when mission controllers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., ... more | .. |
  Exoplanet Aurora Makes For An Out-of-this-World Sight aurorae, or Northern and Southern Lights, provide a dazzling light show to people living in the polar regions. Shimmering curtains of green and red undulate across the sky like a living thing. New r ... more | .. |
 VST looks at the Leo Triplet The VST is the newest addition to ESO's Paranal Observatory. It is a state-of-the-art 2.6-metre telescope, which is equipped with a giant 268-megapixel camera, OmegaCAM [2]. As the name indicates, t ... more |
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 Reservoirs of ancient lava shaped Earth Geological history has periodically featured giant lava eruptions that coat large swaths of land or ocean floor with basaltic lava, which hardens into rock formations called flood basalt. New ... more | .. |
 New uses for Space Station For more than a decade, the International Space Station has been a busy orbiting research lab. But it could soon take on a new role as a testbed for ambitious missions deeper into space. Futur ... more | .. |
  SDO Spots Extra Energy in the Solar Corona Like giant strands of seaweed some 32,000 miles high, material shooting up from the sun sways back and forth with the atmosphere. In the ocean, it's moving water that pulls the seaweed along for a r ... more | .. |
 Wave power can drive intense heat of Sun A new study sheds light on why the Sun's outer atmosphere, or corona, is more than 20 times hotter than its surface. The research, led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), may bri ... more |
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