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• FRIDAY 4. JUNE, 2010
• 16:53 Protein Drinks Packing a Poisonous Wallop?

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  Consumer Reports found worrisome levels of three heavy metals in mass marketed protein drinks.  

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• 15:24 Hubble Watches Restless Star Cluster

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  Astronomers at the Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg and the University of Cologne waited ten years to catch stars in the Milky Way's densest cluster moving enough to measure.  

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• 15:01 Cap Over Ruptured Well Appears to Be Working

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  Remote-controlled submarines installed the cap in BP's most recent attempt to contain the oil leak.  

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• 14:46 Animal-Human Hybrids Banned in Some States

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  In the new movie "Splice," a human-animal hybrid terrorizes people. In real life, scientists argue mixing human and animal cells could save lives.  

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• 14:37 Bike Helmet Gets Stinky When Cracked

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  It's either time to take a shower or replace your safety helmet.  

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• 13:00 Etruscan House Reveals Ancient Domestic Life

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  Hailed as "the Pompeii of the Etruscans," the discovery gives an unprecedented look at the daily lives of this ancient people.  

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• 07:39 Would You Like to Star in Steven Spielberg's New Dinosaur Drama Series?

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  Steven Spielberg's team is looking for actors and extras for a new dinosaur-themed series. Find out how to submit your photo and resume.  

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• 07:09 Video Shows Brown Pelican 'Choking to Death on Oil'

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  New video footage shows a brown pelican 'choking to death on oil' near the site of the Gulf spill.  

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• 04:55 See Tungurahua's Fire, Hear It Roar

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  Ecuador's Tungurahua has been the scene of one heck of a volcanic show.  

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• 03:43 BREAKING: Impact Observed in Jupiter's Atmosphere

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  On the day Hubble releases further analysis of the impact that scarred Jupiter in 2009, the same discoverer, Anthony Wesley, witnesses a second impact fireball in the Jovian atmosphere.  

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• 02:31 Bike-Powered Device Recharges Phone

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  Pedaling at 10 miles per hour for 20 minutes provides an hour of talk time.  

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• THURSDAY 3. JUNE, 2010
• 21:31 Your Brain Could Control This Robot

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  Another breakthrough in brain-computer interface technology allows a person's brain to directly control the actions of a robot.  

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• 21:03 Simple 'SQUID' Solution Could Contain Oil

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  BP has received more than 20,000 suggestions for dealing with the oil spill via their Deepwater Horizon Response website. According to the website, "After the caller completes and submits the form, it is sent for triage by a team of ...  

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• 20:48 Computers See Oil Spreading Far and Fast

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  A new computer simulation shows that currents could whip oil out of the Gulf of Mexico and up the east coast of the US within weeks.  

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• 20:15 Rare Bonobo Birth Celebrated at Great Ape Trust

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  Great Ape Trust is celebrating the rare birth of a baby bonobo.  

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• 19:51 Are Alien Artifacts in Our Solar System?

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  On the hypothesis that we might have been visited long ago, could there be alien artifacts left behind, perhaps abandoned in solar orbit?  

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• 18:34 'Mars Mission' Crew to Spend 520 Days in Isolation

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  Six volunteers will embark on an unprecedented simulation intended to mimic the timescale of a Mars mission.  

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• 18:21 Diet Based on TV Ads Makes People Fat, Unhealthy

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  If you were to eat only foods advertised on TV, you would get more than 20 times the recommended fat and sugar.  

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• 17:45 BP Cuts Pipe, Preps Cap for Oil Leak

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  Since the cut was irregular, fitting the cap snugly over the leak could prove all the more challenging.  

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• 16:50 New Robotic Fleet Would Support Space Missions

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  Robots, probes and technology prototypes could help astronauts explore destinations beyond our moon.  

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• 16:00 Four-Rotor Helicopter Flies Like It's the Future

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  It maneuvers like a hummingbird in a blur of rapid, controlled precision.  

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• 15:33 Amelia Earhart's Final Days a Struggle, Suggest Artifacts

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  Researchers scouring a remote South Pacific island describe a knife, a jar and signs of a fire that the famous female pilot may have used to try and survive.  

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• 14:42 Salad Spinner Helps Test for Anemia

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  A modified salad spinner works as a battery-free centrifuge that can process blood samples to test for anemia in impoverished countries.  

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• 13:00 Stone Age Color, Glue 'Factory' Found

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  The color and glue trade could have been a blossoming industry some 58,000 years ago.  

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• 11:11 The Technology Nobody Sees

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  What happens to technology after it’s had its 15-minutes of fame?  

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