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May 31, 2006
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Britons report 'psychic powers' - BBC More than half of Britons believe in psychic powers such as mind-reading and premonitions, a survey suggests. Of 1,006 adults polled for Readers Digest Magazine, 43% reported reading others' thoughts or having theirs read. More than half had had a dream or premonition of an event before it happened and 26% said they had sensed when a loved-one was ill or in trouble. A fifth said they had seen a ghost and 29% believed near-death experiences were evidence there was an afterlife. More than two-thirds said they could sense when someone was looking at them. |
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Parents back child gene therapy - BBC The overwhelming majority of parents whose children have cystic fibrosis want gene therapy trials to go ahead, bypassing normal research guidelines. Great Ormond Street Hospital scientists hope to test gene therapy on children. But, in a Journal of Medical Ethics paper, they suggest ethical worries about testing on children without prior tests on adults will prevent the work. One in 25 people carry the faulty gene which causes the condition. Cystic fibrosis experts said it was recognised that gene therapy trials needed to be carried out on those who might benefit. |
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Tumours 'sabotage immune system' - BBC Scientists have shown how tumours can manipulate the immune system to stop it attacking cancer cells. They have found that late-stage cancers produce a protein which switches the role of normally helpful immune cells. The study, by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, is published in Nature Immunology. Tumours produce many types of abnormal proteins, which play different roles in their development. The Seattle team found one of these proteins changes the role of otherwise helpful immune cells, called T helper cells, which in the early stages of the disease play a key role in the body's efforts to destroy cancer cells. |
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Biosciences:
5/31/2006: Parents back child gene therapy
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BBC
5/31/2006: DNA for
Dinner: Strange Microbial Menu Discovered - Live Science
5/31/2006: Promise of drug-free dinners for India's vultures
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Nature
5/31/2006: Spider monkeys go on the warpath - New
Scientist
Geosciences, Environment:
5/31/2006: Long History of Southwest Droughts Confirms Looming Water Shortage - Live Science
5/31/2006: Indonesian Quake Kills More Than 4,000 - Live Science
5/31/2006: String of Earthquakes Urelated, Scientists Say - Live Science
5/31/2006: Shifts in jet streams widen hot zone - MSNBC
5/31/2006: Global warming stretches subtropical boundaries - New
Scientist
5/31/2006: World’s indigenous groups may risk a 'slow death' - New
Scientist
5/31/2006: Mysterious glowing clouds targeted by NASA - New
Scientist
5/31/2006: Pacific tsunami warning system successfully tested - New
Scientist
5/31/2006: Ozone Layer Seems To Be Recovering - SpaceDaily
Computers:
Games and Devices
5/31/2006: Technology and magic meet in 'Rise of Legends' - CNN
Hardware and Software
5/31/2006: ST sees phase-change memory in volume at 45-nm - El.
Engr. Times
Communications
5/31/2006: Cambodian PM bans 3G phones - CNN
5/31/2006: Poll: Ban Cell Phones While Driving - Live Science
5/31/2006: Cell Phone Users Make Polling More Difficult - Live Science
Internet
5/31/2006: Hackers 'cracking top antivirus program' - CNN
5/31/2006: Coming
soon: The Web toll - CNN
5/31/2006: The next wave of the web
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Nature
5/31/2006: Phishers could start using the personal touch - New
Scientist
5/31/2006: But, hey, "Web 2.1" might still be available - New
Scientist
Miscellaneous
5/31/2006: Sleep your way to a slimmer body
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Nature
Energy:
5/31/2006: Your garbage could end up powering your PC - CNN
5/31/2006: Energy and Fuels - New
Scientist
Health:
Cardiovascular
Cancer
5/31/2006: Tumours 'sabotage immune system'
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BBC
Infectious
5/31/2006: Two Million Children with HIV - Live Science
5/31/2006: Double rethink on prion diseases - New
Scientist
5/31/2006: Editorial- Enigmatic prion disease continues to baffle - New
Scientist
5/31/2006: Human risk of vCJD revised - New
Scientist
5/31/2006: Double rethink on prion diseases - New
Scientist
Non-Infectious
Miscellaneous
5/31/2006: Parents back child gene therapy
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BBC
5/31/2006: Mystery Disease Makes Peoples' Skin Crawl - Live Science
5/31/2006: Stomach bug makes food yield more calories
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Nature
5/31/2006: Sleep your way to a slimmer body - New
Scientist
Prolongevity
5/31/2006: Anti-Aging Competitions Go Head-to-Head - Live Science
5/31/2006: Contests energize the battle against aging - MSNBC
5/31/2006: Cosmic
Log: Immortality, anyone? - MSNBC
History, Anthropology:
5/31/2006: NEW!:Today in History - Live Science
5/31/2006: Colorado museum unveils fossil finds - MSNBC
5/31/2006: King Tut wows the Windy City - MSNBC
5/31/2006: Egypt’s chamber of secrets - MSNBC
Miscellaneous:
5/31/2006: Britons report 'psychic powers'
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BBC
5/31/2006: Flying the cold-blooded skies - El.
Engr. Times
5/31/2006: IEEE-USA blasts Senate high-tech visa provisons - El.
Engr. Times
5/31/2006: Intel opens Malaysian design facility - El.
Engr. Times
5/31/2006: Glimpse of tomorrow's hot jobs - New
Scientist
5/31/2006: You need not pick up after co-worker's pity parties - Seattle
Times
5/31/2006: Will an interest test help me select a
career? - Seattle
Times
5/31/2006: Bond funds vulnerable to interest-rate risk - Seattle
Times
5/31/2006: Panic selling may leave investor with regret later - Seattle
Times
5/31/2006: Doggone good investor training - Seattle
Times
5/31/2006: More on F5 Networks and nationwide SEC probe - Seattle
Times
5/31/2006: US urges Russia to reconsider missile sales to Iran - SpaceDaily
5/31/2006: US tests ship-based defense system against short-range missile - SpaceDaily
5/31/2006: Bush, Blair resolve dispute over JSF - SpaceDaily
5/31/2006: Iran FM threatens retaliation in event of US strike - SpaceDaily
5/31/2006: Iran has no nuclear ambitions VP tells Pakistan - SpaceDaily
5/31/2006: Bush administration debates direct talks with Iran - SpaceDaily
5/31/2006: Iran willing to accept cap on uranium enrichment - SpaceDaily
5/31/2006: Oman shows solidarity with Iran in nuclear standoff - SpaceDaily
5/31/2006: Iran, Russia agree to continue nuclear talks - SpaceDaily
5/31/2006: Submerged Russian sub launches satellite - SpaceDaily
Neurosciences:
Alzheimers
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Other
Physical Sciences:
5/31/2006: Spotting the quantum tracks of gravity waves - New
Scientist
5/31/2006: Fill her up! - New
Scientist
Space and Astronomy:
5/31/2006: Flames and names - New
Scientist
5/31/2006: The Moon's highlands show their age - New
Scientist
5/31/2006: Ariane 5 Lofts Heaviest Payload Without A Hitch - SpaceDaily
5/31/2006: Air Force Orders More Launches From Orbital - SpaceDaily
5/31/2006: Indian Space Capability Gains Global Recognition - SpaceDaily
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Technology:
5/31/2006: NHK demos UHD TV broadcast - El.
Engr. Times
5/31/2006: Asimov's First
Law: Japan Sets Rules for Robots - Live Science
5/31/2006: Here’s how to make an invisibility cloak - MSNBC
5/31/2006: Robot hand controlled by thought alone - New
Scientist
5/31/2006: Dawn of the zombies - New
Scientist
5/31/2006: 25 worst tech products of all time - New
Scientist