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52 articles from SUNDAY 1.1.2012

• SUNDAY 1. JANUARY, 2012
• 23:30 Twin NASA Moon Probes Start New Year by Entering Lunar Orbit (SPACE.com)

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  SPACE.com - A pair of NASA spacecraft are ringing in the new year in grand style, with both now successfully circling the moon after journeying through space for more than three months.  

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• 20:33 Outside temperatures, sun exposure and gender may trigger glaucoma

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  When it comes to whether or not you will develop exfoliation syndrome -- an eye condition that is a leading cause of secondary open-angle glaucoma and increased risk of cataract as well as cataract surgery complications -- age, gender and where you live does matter.  

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• 20:19 Dot Earth Blog: Falling Forward (Without Falling Down)

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  An adaptive trait in a complicated century: the ability to fall forward without falling down.
  
   

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• 19:22 Parts of stricken Mars probe Phobos-Grunt may strike Earth

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• 19:16 Iran reports nuclear progress as sanctions loom (Reuters)

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  Reuters - Iran announced a nuclear fuel breakthrough and test-fired a new radar-evading medium-range missile in the Gulf on Sunday, moves that could further antagonize the West at a time when Tehran is trying to avert harsh new sanctions on its oil industry.  

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• 18:30 Mystery bird: Malachite kingfisher, Alcedo cristata | @GrrlScientist

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• 17:30 Today's mystery bird for you to identify | @GrrlScientist

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• 17:23 BlackBerry's annus horribilis in Indonesia

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  Few companies better understand the difficulties of doing business in Indonesia than BlackBerry maker Research In Motion.  

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• 17:23 Iran tests first domestically made nuclear fuel rod

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  Iran said on Sunday that its scientists have "tested the first nuclear fuel rod produced from uranium ore deposits inside the country," the website of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organisation said.  

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• 16:05 China's tomb raiders laying waste to thousands of years of history

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• 16:01 Green Blog: A Boom Year for Illicit Elephant Ivory

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  Once hundreds of small ivory seizures are accounted for, 2011 could prove to be the worst year for ivory trafficking since officials began keeping global data 23 years ago, a monitoring group says.
  
   

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• 15:15 Spacecraft Twins Arrive at the Moon

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  These satellites probing deep beneath the Moon's surface will analyze its interior structure in unprecedented detail  

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• 14:55 New Year Brings New Attacks on Evolution in Schools (LiveScience.com)

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  LiveScience.com - The new year is bringing new controversy over teaching evolution in public schools, with two bills in New Hampshire seeking to require teachers to teach the theory more as philosophy than science.  

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• 13:24 Designer behind Apple's products knighted in UK

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  (AP) -- Fans of the clean, inviting look of the iPhone, iPad and other blockbuster Apple products are legion, and that includes Queen Elizabeth II.  

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• 13:24 First of NASA's GRAIL spacecraft enters Moon orbit

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  (PhysOrg.com) -- The first of two NASA spacecraft to study the moon in unprecedented detail has entered lunar orbit.  

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• 13:24 Greying Singapore taps robots, games in rehab

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  Six months ago, Singaporean retiree Soon Eng Sam, 70, suffered a stroke that paralysed the left side of his body.  

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• 13:24 Japan developing cyber weapon: report

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  Japan has been developing a virus that could track down the source of a cyber attack and neutralise its programme, the daily Yomiuri Shimbun reported Sunday.  

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• 13:24 Kodak loses third board member in 2 weeks

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  (AP) -- Eastman Kodak Co. says another member of its board of directors has resigned - the third director to exit the struggling company in the past two weeks.  

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• 13:24 Long-awaited Facebook IPO looms in New Year

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  Facebook co-founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has deflected talk of going public for years but it looks like it is finally going to happen in 2012.  

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• 13:24 New report highlights need for action on health in the aftermath of war

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  Countries recovering from war are at risk of being left to their own devices in tackling non communicable diseases, leaving an "open door" for exploitation by alcohol, tobacco and food companies, health experts warn.  

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• 13:24 New UK data 'shows higher risk of breast implant ruptures'

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  Britain's biggest cosmetic surgery chain has revealed that rupture rates on allegedly faulty French-made breast implants are seven times higher than previously thought, a report said Sunday.  

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• 13:24 Poland pins hopes on starry-eyed students

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  Starry-eyed youngsters living in the birthplace of Nicolas Copernicus have taken up celestial gazing like the father of modern astronomy, but using telescopes he could only dream of.  

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• 13:24 Poor sleep linked to increased health and behavior problems in young diabetics

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  A new study suggests that young diabetics may be struggling to get a good night's sleep, resulting in worse control of their blood sugar, poorer school performance and misbehavior.  

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• 13:24 Spammers propel India to junk-mail top spot

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  India has emerged as the world's top source of junk mail as spammers make use of lax laws and absent enforcement to turn the country into a centre of unsolicited email.  

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• 13:00 Birdbooker Report 203 | @GrrlScientist

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