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8-meter-wide asteroid will pass close to Earth today

PhysOrg - Fri 27 Jan 12

A small asteroid will pass extremely close to Earth tomorrow (January 27, 2012). Named 2012 BX34, this 11 meter- (36 feet-) wide 8 meter- (26-foot-) space rock (astronomers have updated their ...

Asteroid to make near-miss fly-by

BBC News - Fri 27 Jan 12

An 11m-wide asteroid will pass within 60,000km of Earth on Friday - one of the 20 closest recorded approaches to our planet, but one that poses no danger.

UK plastic surgery statistics: breasts up, stomachs in

Guardian.co.uk - Mon 30 Jan 12

UK plastic surgery is on the increase, despite the recession. Find out which procedures are going up - and which are downo Get the dataPlastic surgery is big business in the UK - and despite ...

Bus-Size Asteroid to Give Earth Close Shave

Discovery.com - Fri 27 Jan 12

The newly discovered asteroid will come within 0.17 lunar distances of Earth.

11 meter wide asteroid passing close to Earth today

Geek.com - Fri 27 Jan 12

It may not count as a near miss, but there’s an asteroid passing very close to Earth today. How close? 66,000km close. That may sound like a long way away, but to give you some idea of ...

VIDEO: A new Star Wars and other tech news

BBC Technology - Fri 27 Jan 12

A crowdsourced version of the sci-fi classic Star Wars: A New Hope becomes an internet hit after nearly three years in production. This and more in this week's tech news.

Asteroid's near-miss with Earth

Telegraph.co.uk Science - Fri 27 Jan 12

An asteroid will today make one of the closest cosmic near-misses with Earth ever recorded.

Brain Bleeds High in Expectant Blacks, Hypertensives (CME/CE)

MedPageToday - Sun 29 Jan 12

(MedPage Today) -- African-American women and women who develop hypertension are at risk for subarachnoid hemorrhage associated with pregnancy, a retrospective study found.

Clues into moon's magnetic mystery revealed

Labspaces.net - Fri 27 Jan 12

The moon may have possessed a magnetic field for much longer than previously thought, one that was also much stronger than scientists had predicted, a new study finds. Source: MSNBC - Discipline: ...

Photos: New Catfish Species Discovered

Labspaces.net - Thu 26 Jan 12

Conservation International announced that during an assessment program from August to September 2010 in southwest Suriname, 1,300 species where documented, including 46 species which may be ...

A Central Researcher in the H5N1 Flu Debate Breaks His Silence

Labspaces.net - Thu 26 Jan 12

In the heated debate about two labs that engineered a variant of the deadly H5N1 avian flu virus that for the first time easily transmits between mammals, one critical voice has been missing: ...

Native dog breeds risk extinction

Labspaces.net - Wed 25 Jan 12

One of Britain's oldest native dog breeds - the English setter - is at risk of extinction, says the UK Kennel Club. Source: BBC News - Discipline: Genetics

Bill Gates on Saving Lives, Fixing US Schools, Remembering Steve Jobs

Labspaces.net - Wed 25 Jan 12

For the moment, Bill Gates is no longer the world's wealthiest man. But he didn't lose the title to Mexico's telecom titan Carlos Slim; he gave it away. And as a result, the businessman-turned-philanthropist ...