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Space shuttle Endeavour home in Los Angeles after final flight
LOS ANGELES - The space shuttle Endeavour touched down in Los Angeles on Friday on the back of a jumbo jet, greeted by cheering crowds as it ended a celebratory final flight en route to its retirement home at a Southern California science museum.
Boost for carbon capture from new non-toxic absorber
LONDON - Researchers have created a new material that could solve some of the problems holding back projects to combat global warming by capturing and burying carbon emitted from power stations.
Florida wants NASA land to develop commercial spaceport
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida - With an eye toward developing a commercial spaceport, Florida has asked NASA to transfer 150 acres of land north of the shuttle launch pads and the shuttle runway to Space Florida, the state's aerospace development agency.
GE plans medical technology acquisitions in Germany
FRANKFURT - General Electric plans to make acquisitions in Germany to raise its market share in CAT scan and MRI technology, the company's new Germany chief told a magazine.
Honeybee homicide case against Syngenta pesticide unproven
LONDON - British scientists have shot down a study on declining honeybee populations that triggered a French ban on a pesticide made by Swiss agrochemicals group Syngenta.
Author defends Monsanto GM study as EU orders review
BRUSSELS - The French author of a study linking a type of genetically modified corn to higher health risks in rats dismissed criticism of his research methods on Thursday, describing the work as the most detailed study to date on the subject.
Study on Monsanto GM corn concerns draws skepticism
LONDON - In a study that prompted sharp criticism from other experts, French scientists said on Wednesday that rats fed on Monsanto's genetically modified corn or exposed to its top-selling weedkiller suffered tumors and multiple organ damage.
NASA rover snaps pictures of an eclipse from Mars
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, dispatched to determine if the planet most like Earth in the solar system could have supported microbial life, has taken on a second job - moonlighting as an astronomer.
Quantum teleportation tipped for Nobel Prize: Thomson Reuters
LONDON - Researchers who wrote the rulebook for quantum teleportation, described as "spooky" by an exasperated Einstein, are among the 2012 Thomson Reuters tips to win Nobel prizes for science.
Scientists grow drug for rare disease in corn
LONDON - Scientists have grown a drug to treat a rare genetic disease inside corn plants, potentially offering a cheaper way to manufacture a treatment that currently costs hundreds of thousands of dollars a year for each patient.
New SARS-like virus found, man critically ill in UK
LONDON - A Qatari man struck down with a previously unknown virus related to the deadly SARS infection and the common cold is critically ill in hospital in Britain, the World Health Organisation said on Monday.
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