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U.S. should scale down $1 billion Kansas biodefense lab: study
KANSAS CITY, Kansas - The United States should consider scaling down ambitious plans for a $1 billion laboratory in Kansas to study potentially deadly animal diseases, the National Research Council said on Friday in a key report to help the government decide how to proceed.
German scientists concoct new coolant for electric cars
LONDON - Scientists in Germany have come up with a new fluid for cooling the expensive batteries in electric cars and thereby extending their life, another potential step in improving the cost efficiency of electric propulsion.
Gene-swapping vaccines spawn lethal poultry virus: experts
HONG KONG - Three vaccines used to prevent respiratory disease in chickens have swapped genes, producing two lethal new strains that have killed tens of thousands of fowl across two states in Australia, scientists reported on Friday.
No crustacean, no cry? Bob Marley gets his own species
WASHINGTON - Reggae immortal Bob Marley has joined Barack Obama and Elvis Presley in the elite club of those who have biological species named in their honor.
Giant ice telescope hunts for dark matter's space secrets
MELBOURNE - Scientists are using the world's biggest telescope, buried deep under the South Pole, to try to unravel the mysteries of tiny particles known as neutrinos, hoping to shed light on how the universe was made.
Hawking's rival says Higgs wager win is icing on cake
LONDON - The U.S. scientist who won a $100 wager with Stephen Hawking over whether the Higgs boson would ever be found said on Friday winning was the icing on the cake of a major scientific discovery.
Asian nations want to sink South Korea whale hunt plan
PANAMA CITY - South Korea's proposal to resume whaling for scientific research has angered other Asian countries and conservationists who said the practice would skirt a global ban on whale hunting.
"It's a boson:" Higgs quest bears new particle
GENEVA - Scientists at Europe's CERN research center have found a new subatomic particle, a basic building block of the universe, which appears to be the boson imagined and named half a century ago by theoretical physicist Peter Higgs. | Video
Poof! Dust disk that might have made planets disappears
WASHINGTON - In a cosmic case of "now-you-see-it, now-you-don't," a brilliant disk of dust around a Sun-like star has suddenly vanished, and the scientists who observed the disappearance aren't sure about what happened.
From a vial of mom's blood, a fetus's entire genome
NEW YORK - The days of pregnant women having a 3-inch-long (8-centimetre-long) hollow needle jabbed into their abdomens may be numbered.
Could Wii nunchuks make screen time healthier?
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Active video games might help people burn more calories than couch-based screen time, but those who play active games tend to undo most of the difference if there's junk food available, says a new study.
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