China astronauts enter space module for first
time

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Beijing (AFP) June 18, 2012
Three Chinese astronauts on Monday entered an orbiting module for the first time, a key step towards the nation's first space station, in a move broadcast live on China's state television network. The astronauts - two men and China's first woman to go to space - went into the Tiangong-1 module after it came together with the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft, which took off Saturday. They entered

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Ten-Year-Old Girl Receives Major Vein Grown From
Her Own Stem Cells

post from Singularity Hub on 18 June 2012 03:37:21 AM. © Singularity Hub

A 10-year-old Swedish girl has had a potentially life-threatening condition alleviated by receiving a vein grown from her own stem cells. [...]

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Portal: Terminal Velocity

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An interpretation of what a real Portal gun would be like if one existed. Based on the video game, Portal. The creator tried to match the game as close as possible.

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An estimation of adult human biomass

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The world population is over seven billion and all of these people need feeding. However, the energy requirement of a species depends not only on numbers but on its average mass.

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3 Crazy Human Diseases that Drive Doctors Wild

Medicine has been one of the most provocative and coveted scientific professions for many years now. With primetime television shows about badass doctors breaking all the rules and falling in love with one another crowding our consciousness, the medical profession and the science behind it have become glamorized and skewed in a lot of ways. [...]

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