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Genes linked to developmental disorders British scientists said they had discovered 12 genes linked to developmental disorders in children that can cause heart defects, seizures and intellectual disability.

25 December 2014

Birds can sense a coming storm and flee: study Birds appear to be able to sense a coming storm and fly away before it hits, according to research out on golden-winged warblers in the United States.

19 December 2014

India launches biggest ever rocket into space India successfully launched its biggest ever rocket, including an unmanned capsule which could one day send astronauts into space.

18 December 2014

Kazakh scientists transplant cow skin on human Kazakh scientists have demonstrated their new method of healing wounds, burns and other skin defects using cow skin transplants.

12 December 2014

Orion launch is trial by fire for Apollo-era heat shield NASA's Orion vehicle aims to carry humans farther into space than ever before, but its protective heat shield is basically the same as that used for the Apollo Moon missions.

06 December 2014

NASA counts down to Orion's first step to Mars The Orion spacecraft, designed to carry humans farther in deep space than ever before, is poised to blast off in what NASA hailed as a first step in mankind's journey to Mars.

04 December 2014

Japan launches rocket carrying asteroid probe Japan launched a rocket carrying a space probe destined for a distant asteroid, just weeks after a European spacecraft's historic landing on a comet.

03 December 2014

E-cigarettes have 10 times carcinogens: Japan researchers E-cigarettes contain up to 10 times the amount of cancer-causing agents as regular tobacco, Japanese scientists said.

27 November 2014

DNA may survive trip to suborbital space and back DNA molecules attached to the outside of a rocket may be able survive a trip to suborbital space and back into the Earth's atmosphere at extremely high temperatures.

27 November 2014

Overweight linked to 500,000 cancer cases per year Overweight and obesity is now causing nearly half a million new cancer cases in adults every year, roughly 3.6 percent of the world's total.

26 November 2014

Benefits of regular vitamin D tests remain unproven: study Experts said regular tests for vitamin D levels are not proven to be beneficial or harmful.

25 November 2014

Italy's first female astronaut heads to ISS in Russian craft A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying Italy's first female astronaut safely blasted off Sunday to begin its journey to the International Space Station.

24 November 2014

Scientists study rare tapeworm living in man's brain Scientists in Britain removed and studied a rare tapeworm that lived in a man's brain for four years, researchers saidю

21 November 2014

Study finds HIV drugs could help stop vision loss Drugs used to treat the HIV virus and AIDS could be used to fight against vision loss, a US university study said.

21 November 2014

Dancing, talking robots show off at Madrid congress Hundreds of robotics experts and their whirring, flashing robot creations gathered in Madrid for a top world congress on humanoid technology.

20 November 2014

Tags on fish may act as 'dinner bell' for seals: study Sound-emitting tags fitted to fish to track their survival may, paradoxically, be alerting predator seals to their whereabouts.

19 November 2014

Small volcanoes could slow global warming: study Small volcanic eruptions could be slowing global warming by spewing sulfur aerosols that reach the upper atmosphere and reflect sunlight away from the Earth.

19 November 2014

Lost languages leave a mark on the brain Babies adopted across international borders may not remember the language they heard in their first days, but the words leave a lasting mark on their minds.

18 November 2014

Savvy media use turned comet mission into tale of space heroics Rosetta mission had become a tale of heroics in deep space, with the secrets of the Solar System at stake.

18 November 2014

Famous Kazakh astronaut comments on Rosetta mission Famous Kazakh cosmonaut Talgat Musabayev praises the Rosetta mission, which saw a space probe landing on the surface of a comet for the first time in human history.

17 November 2014

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