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• THURSDAY 13. SEPTEMBER, 2007
• 02:43 Boston Art Museum Makes Works Mobile

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  (AP) -- Masterpieces are going mobile at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. The MFA said Wednesday it will sell downloads of works by artists such as Claude Monet and Edward Hopper for cell phones and other mobile devices.

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• 02:43 Study: Lead Bullets Poison Birds in Wyo.

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  (AP) -- Researchers say fragments from lead bullets continue to poison scavengers like ravens and eagles in the Jackson Hole area.

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• 03:03 Study: Pollution Raises Exercise Risks

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  (AP) -- People with heart disease may want to steer clear of heavy traffic when exercising or simply take their workout indoors to avoid breathing polluted air.

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• 14:28 How dirty is your money?

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  Drug dealers found with bank notes contaminated with unusually high levels of drugs are now less likely to get away with their crimes, thanks to new evidence from a team led by the University of Bristol, UK. The research finds that geographical location has absolutely no influence on the distribution of drug contamination on bank notes.

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• 14:35 Computer models help raise the bar for sporting achievement

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  Computer models now under development could enhance the design of sports equipment to help people of all abilities realise their sporting potential.

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• 14:36 Scientists discover how to isolate stem cells in womb tissue

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  Scientists in Australia have found a way of identifying probable stem cells in the lining of women`s wombs. The finding opens up the possibility of using the stem cells for tissue engineering applications such as building up natural tissue to repair prolapsed pelvic floors. Pelvic floor prolapse is a common condition, affecting over 50% of women after childbirth; around one in ten women have surgery and a third of these women require repeated operations to correct the problem.

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• 14:46 Researchers find important clue to immune infertility

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  Most of us have never heard of immune infertility, yet it prevents many prospective parents from conceiving.

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• 14:48 DNA analysis shows true dispersal of protozoa

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  In contrast to previous findings, it seems that the global distribution of macro- and microorganisms might be similar. A study in the online open access journal, BMC Evolutionary Biology, shows that some protozoa are globally dispersed, while others are geographically restricted - by looking at a new fast-evolving DNA marker. The study also reveals that the biodiversity of protozoa may be much higher than previously realised.

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• 14:53 The molecular signature of loneliness

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  People who experience chronically high levels of loneliness show gene-expression patterns that differ markedly from those of people who don't feel lonely, according to a new molecular analysis in the online open access journal Genome Biology.

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• 14:56 Emissions targets for 2030 will only be reached by banning cars in London

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  London Authority (GLA) takes radical steps, one of which could be the removal of all cars from both inner and outer London, according to a report published today.

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• 14:57 Genes and drugs team up to lower blood pressure

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  Patients with high blood pressure respond very differently to antihypertensive medication, making treatment selection tricky for physicians. But new research published in the online open access journal, BMC Medical Genetics, pinpoints a number of gene-drug interactions that could allow medication to be tailored to individual patients based on their genetics.

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• 15:00 Sprint Nextel Rolls Out Shopping Service

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  (AP) -- Sprint Nextel Corp. unveiled on Thursday a new service that allows mobile handset customers to buy and compare a wide range of products over their phone.

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• 15:00 Eating Less Meat May Slow Climate Change

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  (AP) -- Eating less meat could help slow global warming by reducing the number of livestock and thereby decreasing the amount of methane flatulence from the animals, scientists said on Thursday.

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• 15:00 Experts: Climate Change Puts Sea at Risk

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  (AP) -- Climate change is affecting Europe faster than the rest of the world and rising temperatures could transform the Mediterranean into a salty and stagnant sea, Italian experts said Wednesday.

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• 15:00 NASA Sought to Stop Astronaut Meltdowns

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  (AP) -- NASA e-mails released Wednesday indicate the space agency was looking for ways to prevent astronaut meltdowns just three months before one-time shuttle flier Lisa Nowak was arrested in a scandalous love triangle.

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• 15:00 IBM Develops Virtual Deaf Interpreter

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  (AP) -- Here's a productive twist on the animated characters known as avatars that carry out fantasies in virtual computer worlds. IBM Corp. researchers have developed an avatar that can translate spoken words into sign language.

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• 15:00 Court Puts Hold on Qualcomm Import Ban

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  (AP) -- A federal judge Wednesday halted an import ban on mobile phones by Qualcomm Inc., a rare legal victory in a long-standing patent dispute with rival Broadcom Corp.

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• 15:00 TV Veterans Produce Web-Only Show

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  (AP) -- The creative minds behind such TV shows as "Thirtysomething" and "My So-Called Life" are launching a Web-based show, hoping to find the artistic freedom online that they say is lacking on broadcast networks.

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• 15:00 Microsoft largely unscathed after US antitrust ordeal

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  Microsoft emerged largely unscathed from a long antitrust ordeal in the United States, as it successfully overturned on appeal a judge's ruling that would have broken up the world's biggest software firm.

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• 15:00 5-year-old receives double lung transplant

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  A 5-year-old British girl who is the youngest person to ever receive a double lung transplant is flourishing nine months after the operation.

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• 16:10 Scientists eye secrets of retinal regeneration

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  Peering at microscopic changes within the retina, scientists in the Department of Ophthalmology at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City, have discovered a key mechanism driving eye health and eye disease.

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• 17:21 Backpack straps harvest energy to power electronics

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  All that rubbing of your backpack straps on your shoulders may be put to good use, now that researchers have designed a novel type of energy harvesting backpack. The pack has straps made of a piezoelectric material that can convert the mechanical strain on the straps into electrical energy that may power or recharge portable electronics.

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• 21:55 A glass of wine can help find new mineral deposits

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  The key to finding new mineral deposits in Australia could be to start looking with a glass of wine or a soft drink.

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• 21:55 Foton-M3 on schedule for launch

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  An unmanned Foton capsule, carrying a payload of over 40 European experiments, is on schedule for launch from Baikonur Cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan, at 13:00 CEST (11:00 UT) tomorrow. The Soyuz-U launcher, which will carry the Foton-M3 spacecraft into orbit, was transferred to the launch pad this morning.

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• 21:55 Google Founders Pay NASA for Jet Access

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  (AP) -- Google Inc. co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are reportedly paying $1.3 million a year so their Boeing 767 plane can take off, land and park at a NASA-managed airport located just a few minutes away from the Internet search leader's Silicon Valley headquarters.

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