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Malaria Caught From Gorillas

Humans may have originally caught malaria from gorillas, scientists say. Until now, it was thought that the human malaria parasite split off from a chimpanzee parasite when humans and chimpanzees ...


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Shanghai Port Is Now No 1 Container Port

Achieving 19.06 million TEUs throughput in the first eight months of 2010, has put the Port of Shanghai ahead of Singapore Port and as the world's largest container port currently. Recent statist...


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Google Releases Censorship Tools

The US government asked Google for user information 4,287 times during the first six months of 2010. During the same timeframe the UK government put in over 1,000 such requests. This is just two...


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Sharp Growth Of Extremist Websites

The sharp growth in extremist websites is making recruitment much easier for al-Qaeda, according to Interpol head Ronald Noble. "The threat is global, it is virtual and it is on our doorsteps," he...


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Twitter Fixes Flaw

Twitter has fixed a security flaw on its popular social media website after a cyber attack sent some users to Japanese porn websites. Twitter, which allows users to broadcast short messages of 140...


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Nokia Delays N8 Smarphone Launching

  Nokia said it would delay again its flagship smartphone N8 model, hitting its shares on the day new chief executive Stephen Elop started at the helm of the world's top cellphone maker. The N8...


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Plants Adapt To Chernobyl Radiation

Scientists have uncovered mechanisms that allow plants to thrive in highly radioactive environments like Chernobyl. They analysed seeds from soybean and flax grown near the site of the Chernobyl n...


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Seagulls May Spread Super-Bacteria

Scientists fear migratory birds may be spreading hard-to-treat infections after discovering seagulls can carry antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Portuguese researchers analysed 57 samples of dropping...


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Clever Cars To Mean Safer Driving

Cars could soon be ringing the emergency services themselves if they are involved in a crash. Sensors embedded in future vehicles could also let emergency services work out the severity of the cra...


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Stone Tools Change Migration Story

A research team reports new findings of stone age tools that suggest humans came "out of Africa" by land earlier than has been thought. Geneticists estimate that migration from Africa to South-Eas...


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Facebook Denies Builing Own Phone

Social networking website Facebook said it is pushing deeper into the mobile phones sector, but denied an Internet report that it will build its own phone. Privately held Facebook has more than 50...


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More Brain Cell On Heavy Thinkers

People who think more about whether they are right have more cells in an area of the brain known as the frontal lobes. UK scientists, writing in Science, looked at how brain size varied depending ...


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Foreign Technology To Share With China

Foreign automakers may have to share innovative electric-vehicle technology with Chinese companies in exchange for access to the nation's growing light-vehicle market, The Wall Street Journal report...


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Aussie Scientists Develop New Pineapple

Australian scientists say they have bred a pineapple with double the Vitamin C of other varieties. A 15-year joint government and industry breeding programme has produced the Aus-Jubilee pineappl...


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Joint Pain Supplements Not Effective

Two popular supplements taken to combat joint pain do not work, a study says. The review of 10 previous trials by Bern University in Switzerland found glucosamine and chondroitin did not have any ...


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Depressed Heart Patients In Danger

The combination of depression and coronary heart disease in a patient could be much more deadly than either condition alone, researchers say. French and British experts say people with both condit...


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Web Inventor Proposes Free Worldwide Connection

The inventor of the Web has called for everyone to have access to his creation for free. Tim Berners-Lee said that he would like to see everybody given a low-bandwidth connection "by default". H...


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Microsoft Launch IE9 Web browser

Microsoft has launched its latest bid to be computer users' default window on to the web. The software giant has released the latest version of its popular web browser, Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), ...


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Twitter Adds New Features

Microblogging sensation Twitter, which is now signing up 370,000 new users daily on average, is redesigning its website to make it easier for its millions of users to navigate the service and discov...


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1-hour Test For Tuberculosis Bacterium

Scientists in the UK say they have devised a new ultra-sensitive test which can diagnose the presence of the tuberculosis bacterium in one hour. The test has been developed by the Health Protectio...


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Global Hunger Rate

Global hunger has fallen this year but remains "unacceptably high", a report from the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has said. The FAO estimates there are 925 million undernourished ...


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Nokia Fights Back Smartphone Market

  Cellphone maker Nokia unveiled the smartphones its new management team will be fighting with on Tuesday, as it tries to win back market share from Apple and Blackberry. The world's biggest ce...


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Intel To Introduce 2-in-1 Processors

The world's biggest chip maker, Intel, has unveiled the chipset it is banking its immediate future on and one it hopes will shake up the market. The product, code-named Sandy Bridge, is Intel's fi...


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YouTube In Live Streaming Soon

YouTube has started to experiment with its own-brand live video-streaming technology. Over two days the site is planning a trial in which four partners will get the chance to air live programmes. ...


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Australia Outlaws Euthanasia Advert

Australia has outlawed a television advertisement in favour of euthanasia - the first in many years to challenge a legal ban on the practice. In the advert, a gaunt-looking actor speaks of intole...


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Sex Movie Worm Spreads Worldwide

A booby-trapped e-mail that promises free sex movies is racking up victims around the world, warn security firms. Some variants of the Windows worm contain a link to PDF that a recipient has been ...


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Good Health Slowing Down Ageing Population

The cost of old age on health services in industrialised nations may need to be re-measured, a study suggests. Rising life expectancies and improved health means the population is ageing more slo...


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China Aims For Moon Orbit Shot End 2010

China will launch its second lunar exploration probe by the end of 2010, boosting the country's effort to rise as a space power eventually capable of landing on the moon, official media said. A se...


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EBay To Focus On Cross-Border Trades

EBay Inc., the owner of e-commerce sites and the PayPal payment service, plans to focus on exports and cross-border trades involving China instead of competing in the domestic market, Chief Executiv...


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Feshwater Turtles In Decline

Freshwater turtles are in catastrophic decline, according to a new analysis by Conservation International (CI). The group says more than a third of the estimated 280 species around the world are n...


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