A woman is recovering today after having a cancerous tumor removed from the back of her throat. Actually, there is probably more than one woman in that situation, but not many of them are waking up today without an incision scar somewhere on her head. She's the first successful patient to undergo robotic surgery for throat cancer, and her doctors are optimistic about her prognosis.
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San Antonio surgeons perform first successful robotic throat cancer surgery
Lake Vostok drilling complete: Earth’s oldest super-clean water system reached
On the first of this month it was reported that scientists were about to complete a 30 year drilling expedition to hit a 20-million-year-old lake: this week they’ve reached the surface. This body of water called Vostok is Antarctica’s largest subglacial lake and is believed by scientists to be “the only giant super-clean water system on the planet.” This body of water could contain life and give us Earth-shattering information on our past, excuse the pun, or it could contain an environment unlike anything we’ve experienced before. If either result turns out to be true, we’ll gain insight on “alien” lakes like those we’ve found already on Jupiter’s moon Europa. Thirty years of drilling and the research portion of the expedition can begin!
Russian Soyuz space capsule fails during testing ahead of ISS mission
Lately, it doesn't seem like such a good idea that American astronauts are hitching a ride to the ISS aboard Russian Soyuz vehicles. Russia has lost a resupply vehicle in the past, not to mention the recent failure of the Phobos-grunt probe. Astronauts were set to go to the ISS on March 29 as part of a crew rotation aboard a Soyuz space capsule. Russian space officials were testing the Soyuz capsule that was to take astronauts on a mission by over pressuring it on the ground.
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Russian scientists about to enter Antarctica’s largest subglacial lake
We've all heard the expression that space is the final frontier. But for scientists who have been drilling for 20 years to get through to a vast, untouched lake buried under Antarctic ice, there's still new places to explore right here on Earth. And soon that lake, having been trapped for more than 20 million years, will be navigable, and there might even be previously unseen life forms down there.
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FDA says your body is a “drug” and subject to gov’t regulation
In what is perhaps one of the most controversial cases the Food and Drug Administration has ever participated in, there's a new argument that's making some pretty heavy waves. In essence, the FDA says that a person's individual body can be categorized as a "drug" and is thus subject to all the government-mandated regulations about interstate commerce and the like. That's the meta-level, theoretical interpretation so let's take a look at the specific case that has led to this wild claim.
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Strange objects found at the bottom of the Baltic Sea create a stir
The Captain and crew of an ocean salvaging operation made an interesting find in the Baltic Sea, which was apparently originally discovered by a company called Ocean Explorer. The new crew is a company specializing in deep-sea salvage, and it appears that they have happened on the same wreck that the Ocean Explorer company found a while back. I recall the photo having surfaced previously because it looks a lot like the Millennium Falcon to me. The team has no idea what the object they discovered using deep-sea side sonar might be.
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NASA IBEX reveals composition of space matter from outside our solar system
NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft has been studying what lies outside our solar system and today researchers revealed that this space matter is quite different from what lies within. This interstellar material is considered to be what stars, planets, and people are made from and hence the importance to understand its composition.
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Scientists create the world’s first atomic x-ray laser
Dr. Evil will really like this new development by team of scientists at the Menlo Park SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The team has created the world's first atomic x-ray laser. The project resulted in the shortest, purest x-ray laser pulses ever achieved. These x-ray laser pulses were created when the researchers aimed the SLAC Linac Coherent Light Source at a capsule filled with neon gas.
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ISS orbit raised to avoid Chinese satellite fragment
The ISS and its international crew have been silently orbiting the Earth for many years now. Typically, the ISS maintains a consistent orbit, but at times, that orbit has to be tweaked to avoid any debris that might be in the path of the space station. The smallest chunk of space trash traveling at the very high velocities that are achieved in orbit can destroy the space station and risks the astronauts' lives.
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Bee deaths down to agriculture not armageddon say researchers
Dramatically falling bee populations aren't a sign of the impending apocalypse or even a hive-mind abandoning Earth but the side-effect of neonicotinoid insecticides discovered to be highly toxic to honeybees. Researchers at Purdue University found the insecticides - which are commonly used to coat corn and soybean seeds prior to planing, Science Daily reports - cause tremors, loss of coordination and convulsions, before eventually death, in bees. However, discovering the cause of the decline is only part of the problem: bee populations in the US continue to dive by around a third each year, the Purdue team believes.
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NASA aims for early 2014 test of Lockheed Martin Orion spacecraft
Lockheed Martin has been hard at work on the Orion spacecraft for a long while. The Orion spacecraft is more like the capsules used in the Apollo era than the space shuttle that has been retired from service. The first big milestone for the Orion project is coming in 2014 when NASA hopes to be able test spacecraft during orbits of the earth.
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Increased solar activity means more aurora borealis over next year
Many people around the world are getting quite a light show at night thanks to the massive solar flares that have been occurring on the sun and shooting radiation towards the Earth's atmosphere. That radiation bouncing off the atmosphere means that we get an impressive display of northern lights, otherwise known as aurora borealis, in the sky over parts of the world that traditionally don't have such a light show. Last week a strong solar storm that pounded the Earth's magnetic field and made for a beautiful night sky in many locations.
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