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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Science &amp; Health</title>
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		<title>Man uses thought to control robotic leg via rerouted nerves</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 04:47:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A man missing his lower leg has gained precise control over a prosthetic limb just by thinking about moving it &#8212; all because his unused nerves were preserved during the amputation and rerouted to his thigh, where they can be used to communicate with a robotic leg. The man can now switch seamlessly from walking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swap red meat for tomatoes to cut prostate-cancer risk</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2013 14:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simeon Bennett</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A set of six healthy habits, including eating more tomatoes and less processed red meat, helped men reduce their risk of dying from prostate cancer, a study found. Researchers analyzed information gathered from almost 46,000 men for 25 years and found that those who adopted five or six of the habits had a 39 percent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Night owl&#8217; brains tied to depression</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2013 12:22:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[They say the early bird catches the worm, but &#8220;night owls&#8221; may be missing far more than just a tasty snack. Researchers have discovered evidence of structural brain differences that distinguish early risers from people who like to stay up late. The differences might help explain why night owls seem to be at greater risk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Law may lead to disparities</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:45:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zachary A. Goldfarb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Half a century ago, the creation of Medicare and Medicaid was a triumph of American egalitarianism. Within a decade, the United States went from a country where 1 in 3 people lacked health insurance to a nation where just 1 in 10 went without coverage. President Barack Obama has similar ambitions for the Affordable Care [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Yellow brick road&#8217; may lead to lost pirate booty</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:43:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[He calls it &#8220;the yellow brick road&#8221; because it is literally sprinkled with gold dust. This road runs along Cape Cod&#8217;s shifting seafloor, and undersea explorer Barry Clifford believes it leads to undiscovered treasure from the wreck of the pirate ship Whydah. Two weeks ago, Clifford and his dive team took a trip back to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slow start expected for system</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:42:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The White House is downplaying expectations for the first day of the Affordable Care Act&#8217;s insurance marketplaces. In recent weeks, senior administration members have begun predicting that there will be relatively few takers on Tuesday, when tens of millions of Americans will, for the first time, be able to sign up for new insurance options. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Glitches, logistical problems plague exchanges</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Kliff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Buying health insurance will be as easy as purchasing a plane ticket or shopping on Amazon, President Barack Obama has promised. Maybe, but perhaps not on Tuesday &#8212; the day when millions of Americans are supposed to be able to start buying coverage under the sweeping law formally known as the Affordable Care Act but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s health plan set for launch — ready or not</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:42:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Starting Tuesday, an estimated 50 million Americans who do not have health insurance are to start signing up for coverage as the core of President Barack Obama&#8217;s overhaul takes hold. Subsidies will be available to help those with lower incomes pay for insurance. And on Jan. 1, people will no longer be denied coverage because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report raises fear about toxic algae fed by pollution</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2013 12:35:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[They call it the green slime, a toxic ooze of algae that covered lakes and other bodies of water across the United States this summer, closing beaches and killing scores of dolphins, manatees, birds and fish, a report says. At least 21 states closed lakefront beaches and issued public health advisories as a result of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hope for colony: Mars soil sample holds 2% water</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2013 12:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first scoop of Martian soil analyzed by NASA&#8217;s Curiosity rover held about 2 percent water, offering hope for hydrating humans who may someday explore the red planet, scientists said in a study Thursday. &#8220;We saw Mars as a very dry desert, and while this is not as much water as you will find in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Camera trap catches rare photos of eagle attacking a deer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2013 12:34:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The eagle, caught red-handed. Remote cameras that were intended to monitor Siberian tigers in Russia instead caught a golden eagle&#8217;s fatal attack on a deer, snapping three photos as the massive bird dug its talons into the distressed animal&#8217;s back. London&#8217;s Zoological Society, which distributed the pictures to journalists, said the sequence showed a rare [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fish fossil yields jaw-dropping switch in animals&#8217; evolutionary path</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2013 12:33:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ancestor of all creatures with jaws and a backbone was not a sleek sharklike beast but a toothless armored fish, according to a study that rewrites man&#8217;s evolutionary history. Scientists said they have found a 419-million-year-old fish fossil in China that disproves the long-held theory that modern animals with bony skeletons &#8212; collectively known [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Earth&#8217;s slowdown messing with human tech</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2013 13:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ivan Amato</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t forget to set your clocks ahead two thousandths of a second before you go to sleep tonight. Same thing goes for bedtime tomorrow. And every day after that, because that is how much slower the Earth turns on its axis each day now than it did a century ago. All of those sub-eyeblink slowdowns [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brazen cuckoos crowd other birds&#8217; nests with their eggs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2013 13:07:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The African cuckoo finch is known for bamboozling other birds into raising its young, but new research has shown just how brazen the feathery rogue is in evading parental duty. The yellow bird, about the size of a sparrow, is a notorious freeloader. It lays its eggs in the nests of other birds and even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.K. vows £1 billion for AIDS, malaria, TB</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Sep 2013 11:53:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Britain has announced that it is giving £1 billion ($1.6 billion) to The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria over the next three years and hopes the money will lead to &#8220;some incredible results.&#8221; International Development Secretary Justine Greening made the announcement to loud applause Monday at a luncheon sponsored by the United [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transit project brings macabre past of London to the surface</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2013 13:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Faiola</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an open pit near the old Bedlam insane asylum, where the curious once ogled chained lunatics for the price of a shiny coin, the skeletons in London&#8217;s closet are climbing to the surface. And dead men do tell tales. Take, for example, one poor soul recently unearthed from a long-lost graveyard in Bedlam&#8217;s back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Search for Mars life to continue despite rover&#8217;s findings</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2013 13:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel Achenbach</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Martian life is awfully cryptic — that is a scientific term; it means life that is out of sight, below the surface, burrowed into ecological niches not easily scrutinized by robotic sentinels from the planet Earth. ]]></description>
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		<title>Smells can help dispel fear factor</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2013 13:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It can take only an instant for fear to take hold in the brain &#8212; a fear of snakes after being bitten, or of water after witnessing a drowning &#8212; and overcoming that fear can take a long time. But now researchers are saying it can be done in your sleep. Scientists at Northwestern University [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brain-eating amoeba in city water rattles nerves near New Orleans</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Sep 2013 12:16:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sales of bottled water have gushed while officials try to pin down the source of a deadly amoeba found in the water supply of St. Bernard Parish, southeast of New Orleans. Experts say the only danger is to people who get the organism way up their nose. Its only access to the brain is through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>E-cigarettes are popular, but do they really work?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2013 13:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Mckenna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The rules governing personal conduct on the top deck of a Glasgow bus are known to international peacekeeping forces everywhere: keep your head down; do not make eye contact and on no account attempt to make polite conversation with strangers. Refrain too from making jerky or unpredictable movements. It was probably the last of these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Royal toothbrush, toothpaste among Rio dig discoveries</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2013 12:41:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An ivory toothbrush thought to have belonged to Brazilian Emperor Pedro II and a minty toothpaste made for the Portuguese queen are among more than 200,000 pieces dating from the 17th through 19th centuries that archaeologists have unearthed from a site in Rio de Janeiro being excavated for an extension of the city&#8217;s subway lines. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protein linked to Alzheimer&#8217;s cure</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2013 12:03:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists have a new lead on a possible treatment to slow Alzheimer&#8217;s disease by targeting a protein involved in limiting flexibility in the aging brain, according to a study released Thursday. Researchers led by Stanford University neurobiologist Carla Shatz discovered that eliminating a certain protein from mice brains stopped the disease&#8217;s symptoms from manifesting. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NASA rover finds no hint of methane in Mars atmosphere</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2013 03:58:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NASA&#8217;s Curiosity rover hasn&#8217;t discovered any signs of methane in the atmosphere of Mars, a finding that does not bode well for the possibility that microbes capable of producing the gas could be living below the planet&#8217;s surface, scientists said Thursday. Since landing in Gale Crater last year, the car-size rover has gulped Mars air [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Private firms line up for deliveries to ISS</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2013 12:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A commercial cargo ship made its successful debut Wednesday, rocketing toward the International Space Station and doubling the number of NASA&#8217;s private suppliers for the high-flying lab. Orbital Sciences Corp. launched its first-ever supply ship from Virginia&#8217;s Eastern Shore, the departing point for a NASA moonshot less than two weeks ago. &#8220;Look out ISS, here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bats, snakes face deadly fungi threat</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2013 13:03:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darryl Fears</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jeremy Coleman was on the trail of a ruthless serial killer recently, studying its behavior, patterns and moves at a Massachusetts lab. The more he saw, the more it confirmed a hunch. He had seen it all before. He was looking at a copycat killer. The mass murderer of bats under Coleman&#8217;s microscope, Pseudogymnoascus destructans, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2013: A space conundrum</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Sep 2013 13:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel Achenbach</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Long ago, in a dreamier era, space stations were imagined as portals to the heavens. In the 1968 movie &#8220;2001: A Space Odyssey,&#8221; the huge structure twirled in orbit, aesthetically sublime, a relaxing way station for astronauts heading to the moon. It featured a Hilton and a Howard Johnson&#8217;s. The International Space Station (ISS) of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Regeneration of tissues in body may be possible: study</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Sep 2013 12:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists in Spain say they have succeeded in making mature cells in living mice revert to their youthful, versatile state &#8212; a step toward the goal of regenerating tissue by using stem cells. Right now, the technique is at its earliest stage and is hedged with safety questions, which makes it impossible to envisage in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Neuroscientists reveal the sexiest parts of the body</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Sep 2013 13:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracey Mcveigh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The mind, said Raquel Welch, is an erogenous zone. And it is the brain, and how it organizes our erogenous zones, that has intrigued scientists for decades. Why is a nuzzled neck sexy when few would be turned on by a nuzzled nose? And why do men seem to have fewer erogenous zones than women? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giant camera hunts for dark energy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Sep 2013 11:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Vastag</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the whir of a giant digital camera, the biggest mystery in the universe is about to become a bit less mysterious. Fifteen years ago, the world of science was rocked by the discovery that, contrary to our previous notions of gravity gradually slowing the expansion of the universe after the big bang, distant galaxies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plant hoppers found to have &#8216;gears&#8217; to boost jumping</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Sep 2013 11:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A jumping insect has gears, scientists have discovered, a rare instance in which man and nature independently converged on the same idea. It was not easy to verify. One species of plant hopper is tiny, just a bit larger than a flea. And it jumps extremely fast &#8212; with an acceleration of 200 Gs, a [...]]]></description>
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