ST. LOUIS MISSOURI - Against all odds, Elizabeth Marek is alive thanks to a tumor-killing device that attacks brain cancer cells with electric fields. Marek has glioblastoma, a deadly and aggressive form of brain cancer with no cure and a life expectan...
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The Ever-Evolving Rapid Response Skimmer
Kvichak’s Rapid Response Skimmers (RRS) are perhaps best known for their use by the U.S. Navy, but the design of these robust and well-designed units has evolved
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CERN’s Large Hadron Collider to resume smashing particles in hunt for dark matter
GENEVA (Reuters) - The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will start smashing particles together at unprecedented speed on Wednesday, churning out data for the first time in more than two years that scientists hope might help crack the mystery of "dark matter...
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Sinking Casts Pall over China’s Ship Safety Record
The sinking of a cruise boat on China's Yangtze River is likely to mar the country's generally clean maritime safety record, which hasn't suffered an incident of
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Hundreds Missing After Ship Capsizes on Yangtze
Ship capsizes in "tornado" on southern stretch of Yangtze.
Rescuers fought bad weather on Tuesday as they searched for more than 400 people, many of them elderly Chinese tourists,
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Scientists document Florida ‘virgin births’ of endangered sawfish
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists have documented in Florida a series of "virgin births," reproduction without mating, in a critically endangered sawfish species pushed to the brink of extinction by over-fishing and habitat destruction.
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Grounded Bulk Ship Awaits Lightering
The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) reports it continues to work with state and local partners Monday to oversee freeing a bulk carrier loaded with sulfur that ran aground May 26,
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Mobile underground bomb shelter can be assembled in 90 minutes
Estonian company Terramil has begun manufacturing easy-to-instal mobile bomb shelters for those concerned about attack threats.
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Cheap 3D printed robotic arm controlled by the mind
For Easton LaChappelle, a 19-year-old from Colorado in the United States (U.S.), the difficulty with robotics has never been the technology itself - something he says he managed to master in a matter of months from his bedroom in his parent's house - b...
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Bad weather forces solar-powered plane to land in Japan
TOKYO (Reuters) - A solar-powered plane attempting a round-the-world flight will cut short the seventh leg of its 35,000-km global (22,000-mile) journey, landing in Nagoya, western Japan, due to bad weather.
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