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<title>Massaging promotes pain relief, muscle recovery</title>
<description>Most athletes would swear by the pain-relieving, muscle recovery-promoting benefits of massaging, which has now been validated by scientific evidence.</description>
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<title>No vendetta against Nair, says ISRO chief Radhakrishnan</title>
<description>Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chief K Radhakrishnan on Monday said that there has been no vendetta behind blacklisting his predecessor G Madhavan Nair and three other scientists in connect </description>
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<title>Diver to break sound barrier</title>
<description>An Austrian skydiver will try to break the sound barrier during a free fall from a balloon on the edge of space later this year, The Telegraph reported Sunday.</description>
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<title>Over 6,000 apply for NASA Astronaut Corps</title>
<description>Over 6,000 individuals have applied for joining NASA&amp;#039;s Astronaut Corps, twice as many as the US space agency usually receives, NASA said Sunday.</description>
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<title>Scientific teaching method promotes deeper questions, answers</title>
<description>Raleigh, N.C. - There&amp;#039;s a national push to help students focus on science, technology, engineering and math.&amp;nbsp;Schools with that emphasis, called STEM schools, have special technology  ... </description>
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<title>Miss. science standards get C</title>
<description>An educational research institute gives Mississippi a grade of C for what it describes as mediocre standards for teaching science in public schools.  But state associate superintendent Trecina Green  ... </description>
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<title>Russia Tests HIV Vaccine</title>
<description>The State Research Center for Virology and Biotechnology, Vektor, has successfully completed the first stage of clinical trials of an HIV vaccine, Vektor director Alexander Sergeyev said on Monday.   ... </description>
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<title>NASA says Russian space woes no worry</title>
<description>Science News: WASHINGTON, NASA says it still has confidence in the quality of Russia&amp;#039;s manned rockets, despite an embarrassing series of glitches and failures in the Russian space  ... </description>
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<title>17 and sudoku clues [video] | @GrrlScientist</title>
<description>For those who aren&amp;#039;t familiar with it, sudoku is a popular logic-based puzzle where numbers are placed into a 99 grid so that each column, each row, and each of the nine 33 sub-grids contain  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:41:03 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>The Strange Science of Summer on the Oregon Coast</title>
<description>(Oregon Coast) - It verges on the paranormal.  It&amp;rsquo;s a truth that&amp;rsquo;s a bit out there. And it&amp;#039;s a stranger side  of Oregon tourism than most have  ... </description>
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<title>Some Churches Hope Albany Will Act to Allow Renting School Space to Pray</title>
<description>In a wide second-floor room at John Jay High School in Brooklyn, images of a cross, broken bread and a chalice overflowing with red wine decorated a large banner hanging between two columns. In  ... </description>
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<title>More Water than Ever Found on the Surface of the Moon</title>
<description>These images produced by the Lyman Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP) aboard NASA&amp;#039;s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter reveal features at the Moon&amp;#039;s northern and southern poles in the regions that lie  ... </description>
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<title>Early Study Suggests Nanodiamonds Safe for Implants</title>
<description>-; Nanodiamonds designed to toughen artificial joints also might prevent the inflammation caused when hardworking metal joints shed debris into the body, according to an early study published this  ... </description>
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<title>Hearing Metaphors Activates Brain Regions Involved in Sensory Experience</title>
<description>-; When a friend tells you she had a rough day, do you feel sandpaper under your fingers? The brain may be replaying sensory experiences to help understand common metaphors, new research  ... </description>
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<title>Today&amp;#039;s Article on Christian Science</title>
<description>Mary Baker Eddy , the founder of Christian Science, has been helpful to me when needing employment and figuring out the direction of my life. Referring to a statement in Jesus&amp;#039; Sermon on the  ... </description>
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<title>Momentive Features New Iron Hydrosilylation Technology in Science Magazine</title>
<description>Scientists from Princeton and Cornell Universities and researchers from Momentive Performance Materials have been jointly featured in an article, which is about new iron hydrosilylation technology  ... </description>
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<title>ISSUE Project Room&amp;rsquo;s permanent space.</title>
<description>buy online access to a single issue . Individual back  issues are available for sale through our customer-service department, at  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:08:19 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Man, 51, photographed teen, fathered her child</title>
<description>BRANTFORD, ONT. - A 51-year-old Brantford man -- who had sex with a teenager, took pornographic photos of her and fathered her child -- will be sentenced next month.  The man, whose name is under a  ... </description>
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<title>Genetic Variant Increases Risk of Common Type Stroke</title>
<description>-; A genetic variant that increases the risk of a common type of stroke has been identified by scientists in a study funded by the Wellcome Trust and published online  ... </description>
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<title>House explosion kills husband, two sons of missing woman</title>
<description>A house explosion on Sunday killed the father and two boys involved a bitter custody dispute near Tacoma, Washington, authorities said, two years after the  ... </description>
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<title>Boeing sees big future in space</title>
<description>The Boeing Co., long noted as a producer of strategic weapons, now manufactures a variety of commercial and military products. In keeping with rapidly changing technology, Boeing is in the Space age  ... </description>
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<title>Key to Immune Cell&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Internal Guidance&amp;#039; System Discovered</title>
<description>-; University of British Columbia researchers have discovered the molecular pathway that enables receptors inside immune cells to find, and flag, fragments of pathogens trying to invade a  ... </description>
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<title>NASA to help Tunisia manage water resources through space remote sensing</title>
<description>TUNIS, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) -- The United States&amp;#039; space agency, NASA, will help Tunisia better manage its water resources, the official Tunisian press agency TAP reported on Monday.  A project  ... </description>
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<title>Delay for space station&amp;#039;s 1st private cargo run</title>
<description>The first commercial cargo run to the International Space Station is off until spring.  SpaceX planned to launch its unmanned supply ship from Cape Canaveral on Feb. 7. But the company said more  ... </description>
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<title>Science&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;most beautiful theories&amp;#039;</title>
<description>From Darwinian evolution to the idea that personality is largely shaped by chance, the favorite theories of the world&amp;#039;s most eminent thinkers are as eclectic as science itself.  Every January,  ... </description>
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<title>Russian space probe to crash to Earth within hours</title>
<description>In this Nov. 2, 2011 file photo distributed by Russian Roscosmos space agency technicians work on the Phobos-Ground probe at Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The spacecraft is expected to fall to Earth around  ... </description>
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<title>10 science stories that made us blush in 2011</title>
<description>Sometimes science delves into taboo subjects -- and turns up interesting results. This year was no exception, with researchers delving into such blush-worthy topics as premature orgasms, sex toys  ... </description>
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<title>Harper heads to China</title>
<description>Canada&amp;#039;s Prime Minister Stephen Harper speaks before the start of an interview with Reuters in his office on Parliament Hill in Ottawa February 3, 2012. REUTERS/Chris Wattie OTTAWA - Several  ... </description>
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<title>Snowboarder hits tree stump, dies</title>
<description>CALGARY -- Tragedy took over a day of outdoor fun at Castle Mountain Saturday afternoon, as a young woman may have watched her husband-to-be snowboard to his death.  A Calgary man, 30, was tackling  ... </description>
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<title>Superbugs spied off the Antarctic coast</title>
<description>Bjrn Olsen of Uppsala University in Sweden and colleagues took seawater samples between 10 and 300 metres away from Chile&amp;#039;s Antarctic research stations, Bernardo O&amp;#039;Higgins, Arturo Prat and  ... </description>
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<title>Self-guided bullets to hit target a mile away</title>
<description>U.S. researchers have developed a self-guided bullet. The 10 cm, dart-like bullet can hit laser-designated targets more than 1.6 km away. Sandia National Laboratories/HANDOUT U.S. researchers have  ... </description>
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<title>Clashing conclusions vitiate space air</title>
<description>New Delhi, Feb. 5: The four former space scientists punished for their role in a scrapped satellite deal had breached standard procedures, overlooked national interest and misled the Union cabinet  ... </description>
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<title>NDP leadership candidates gear up for final stretch</title>
<description>Play video &amp;shy;NDP leadership candidates squared off in Sudbury, Ont., on Sunday in a riding association debate as the race to replace the late Jack Layton enters its last leg.  New Democrats are  ... </description>
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<title>CAW threatening to occupy Electro-Motive plant</title>
<description>Ontario locomotive plant shuts down LONDON, Ont. -- The Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) union is prepared to occupy the Electro-Motive plant in London if owner Caterpillar Inc. doesn&amp;#039;t bargain a  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:48:28 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Byelection date set for Layton&amp;#039;s seat</title>
<description>Jack Layton. (File Photo) OTTAWA - A byelection will be held in Jack Layton&amp;#039;s former riding on March 12, according to the Prime Minister&amp;#039;s Office.  The riding of Toronto-Danforth, which  ... </description>
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<title>Clint Eastwood helps reveal secrets of brain evolution</title>
<description>Clint Eastwood might sound like an unlikely candidate to help investigate the evolution of the brain, but he has lent a helping hand to researchers doing just that. It turns out that brain regions  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:33:08 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Charest announces conservation plan for Quebec&amp;#039;s north</title>
<description>Quebec Premier Jean Charest. (JOEL LEMAY/QMI Agency) MONTREAL - Quebec will turn 20% of its vast northern territory into internationally recognized protected areas, a plan Premier Jean Charest said  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:14:19 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Neurocinematic comparison of monkeys and humans</title>
<description>Monkeys are our closest living relatives, whose brains have long served as an indispensable model for understanding how our own brain works. But we&amp;#039;re separated from each other by 25 million  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:41:58 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Today&amp;#039;s mystery bird for you to identify | @GrrlScientist</title>
<description>This handsome African mystery bird is endemic to Ethiopia and Eritrea. It also is placed into several taxonomic families, depending upon which authority you are referring to. Can you identify this  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:41:53 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Realistic rents fill space in Hamilton</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:28:38 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Pythons hunt Florida mammals to brink of extinction</title>
<description>Florida&amp;#039;s ecologists can be forgiven one pet hate: Burmese pythons discarded by their owners have eaten many Everglades mammals practically to  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:57:23 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Fight over changing constants reaches stalemate</title>
<description>It&amp;#039;s time to declare a ceasefire in the fight to find out whether the constants of nature vary. What was supposed to be a new superweapon in the battle has turned into something of a damp  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:57:20 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Smiling is good for you - and an area of scientific study by some seriously smart researchers</title>
<description>Everyone wants to be happy. And yet most people aren&amp;#039;t even sure what happiness is -- much less how to get it. Unraveling that mystery is the work of smile science, a field that relies on  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:42:50 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Anti-Putin protesters show staying power</title>
<description>A demonstrator stands in front of a soviet flag during a protest demanding fair elections in the southern Russian city of Stavropol Feb. 4, 2012. REUTERS/Eduard Korniyenko MOSCOW - Vladimir  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:03:29 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Deadly car bombing in Kandahar</title>
<description>U.S. soldiers and Afghan security forces secure an area near a car bomb blast attack in the city of Kandahar Feb. 5, 2012. REUTERS/Ahmad Nadeem KABUL - A car bomb in the south Afghan city of  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:03:27 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Anger after Russia, China block UN action on Syria</title>
<description>Arab League suspends Syria mission BEIRUT/UNITED NATIONS - Western and Arab countries responded with outrage on Sunday after Russia and China vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution that would  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:03:25 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Fire at Russian nuclear institute</title>
<description>MOSCOW - A fire broke out on Sunday at a Moscow nuclear research centre that houses a non-operational 60-year-old atomic reactor, an emergency official said, and Russia&amp;rsquo;s nuclear agency said  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:03:24 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>City of Toronto, union reach tentative deal</title>
<description>Play video TORONTO -- The City of Toronto has hammered out a deal with CUPE Local 416.  Talks went down to the wire and then into overtime overnight but Sunday morning, a tentative deal was reached  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:03:22 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Vote Now! Top Space Stories of the Week - Feb. 5, 2012</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:03:04 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Birds&amp;#039; paradise lost in Kashmir</title>
<description>A suitable climate and the easy availability of food make the Hokersar wetland reserve in Indian-administered Kashmir a favourite destination for nearly a million migratory birds every winter.  This  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:53:31 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Russia&amp;#039;s Mars probe crash caused by space radiation</title>
<description>MOSCOW, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- The crash of Russia&amp;#039;s Mars probe Phobos-Grunt was caused by space radiation and engine failure, Russia&amp;#039;s Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:24:43 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Visualizations take you inside science</title>
<description>contest aims to advance scientific research--while demystifying it for the general public--through visualizations.    The National Science Foundation and the journal  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:33:13 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Birdbooker Report 208 | @GrrlScientist</title>
<description>Compiled by an ardent bibliophile, this weekly report includes books about mosses, scientific art and stream ecology that have been newly published in North America and the  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:03:16 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Bendy battery gives smart fabrics a charge</title>
<description>To build their battery they sandwich a solid polyethylene oxide electrolyte between a lithium iron phosphate cathode and lithium titanate anode. All of these are thermoplastic materials, which can  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:15:37 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>MPs urge PM to cut wind farm subsidy</title>
<description>More than 100 Conservative MPs have written to David Cameron calling on him to slash subsidies for onshore wind turbines.  The MPs also want planning rules changed to make it easier for local people  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:50:10 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Olympiad teams test nascent science skills</title>
<description>Canterbury senior Nevil Parikh checks the alignment of the tower he and teammate Ryan Byer created for the Science Olympiad hosted by IPFW on Saturday. Teams from nine area schools competed in more  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:32:34 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Qatar Science Leadership Program now accepting applications</title>
<description>New trade and investment agreements between Qatar and Nepal will allow investors to explore the &amp;quot;abundant potential for promoting bilateral trade, tourism and foreign direct investment,&amp;quot;  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:43:23 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>jumper plans skydive from edge of space</title>
<description>IT is the ultimate parachute jump: from the edge of space, Felix Baumgartner will leap from a balloon and plummet 120,000ft.After 35 seconds he will break the sound barrier, and finally, at 5,000ft,  ... </description>
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