A cruise ship struck a lock wall in the Saint Lawrence Seaway upstate New York Thursday night, injuring several passengers, the U.S. Coast Guard reported.
There were 274 people,
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Smart cycle jacket could save lives on Mexico City’s roads
Mexico City's bumper-to-bumper traffic is a problem for the sprawling capital city's cyclists.
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DNA sleuthing pinpoints two African elephant poaching hot spots
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - DNA testing on tons of ivory seized from traffickers has identified two elephant poaching "hot spots" in Africa in a development scientists hope will spur a crackdown on the illegal trade decimating the population of Earth's larg...
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Ancient ‘Kennewick Man’ skeleton was Native American: study
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The much-anticipated results of a study of DNA taken from the hand bone of the so-called Kennewick Man, a 8,500-year-old skeleton discovered in Washington state in 1996, suggest the man was most closely related to Native American po...
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That’s right, kangaroos are left-handed
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Research on wild kangaroos in Australia is challenging the notion that having a strong hand preference is a trait that developed primarily in people and other primates.
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Responders Conduct Spill Exercise
Emergency responders from across Ohio gathered in Cleveland this week to participate in a preparedness response exercise.
Exercises such as this one are designed to improve communication,
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Online human breast milk craze has serious health risks: experts
LONDON (Reuters) - A growing online craze among some fitness communities, fetishists and chronic disease sufferers for buying and drinking human breast milk poses serious health risks, British experts said on Thursday.
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Sleep through my piece, please, composer Max Richter says
LONDON (Reuters) - People since time immemorial have been dozing off in concert halls. Now British composer Max Richter has written an eight-hour-long piece called "SLEEP" which he says is designed to make people nod off during the performance -- with ...
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Scientists plan risky move to get Rosetta spacecraft nearer comet
PARIS (Reuters) - European scientists are planning a risky maneuver to get their Rosetta spacecraft closer to the comet it is orbiting, so it can communicate with its robotic lander on the surface and start experiments that could unlock some of the uni...
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GSK invests $95 million in effort to demystify cell ‘operating system’
LONDON (Reuters) - British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline is investing $95 million to create a new U.S. research institute led by a top genomics professor to investigate how a cell's operating system works.
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