Traffic inside a brain cell

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Using bioluminescent proteins from a jellyfish, a team of scientists has lit up the inside of a neuron, capturing spectacular video footage that shows the movement of proteins throughout the cell.

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Why is faith falling in the US

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A new poll suggests that atheism is on the rise in the US, while those who consider themselves religious has dropped. What's the cause? Two writers debate.

Recently, researchers conducting a WIN-Gallup International poll about religion surveyed people from 57 countries.

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Researchers create a chemical brain

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Northwestern University scientists have connected 250 years of organic chemical knowledge into one giant computer network -- a chemical Google on steroids.

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Key to burning fat faster discovered

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Enzymes involved in breaking down fat can now be manipulated to work three times harder by turning on a molecular switch recently observed by chemists at the University of Copenhagen.

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Student Commands Mars Rover

post from Space Tourism, Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 22 August 2012 10:17:01 PM. © Space Tourism, Space Transport and Space Exploration News

Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 23, 2012
Children are often mystified by remote control cars and how they can control them with a device while standing several feet away from them. This past week, Chris Tate was mystified by the same power-only he was controlling something 150 million miles away, on another planet. The UT physics doctoral student had the rare opportunity to control one of the science instruments on NASA's Curiosi

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Space station orbit successfully adjusted

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Moscow (UPI) Aug 22, 2012
Europe's ATV-3 unmanned supply spacecraft has raised the International Space Station's orbit to about 261 miles, a mission control spokesman said Wednesday. The successful orbital readjustment follows a failed attempt Aug. 15 when the ATV-3's engines shut down prematurely because of an increase in temperature on one of the units, leaving the ISS short of its intended orbital height, RIA

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Singer Sarah Brightman could be next space
tourist: report

post from Space Tourism, Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 22 August 2012 10:17:01 PM. © Space Tourism, Space Transport and Space Exploration News

Moscow (AFP) Aug 22, 2012
British soprano Sarah Brightman could become the next space tourist to blast off to the International Space Station (ISS), a senior official at the Russian space agency hinted Wednesday. The singer, 52, known for her roles in West End musicals such as The Phantom of the Opera is being considered as as candidate, said the head of piloted programmes, Andrei Krasnov, in comments to the RIA Novo

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New Mars mission to take first look at what's
going on deep inside the Red Planet

post from Space Tourism, Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 22 August 2012 10:17:01 PM. © Space Tourism, Space Transport and Space Exploration News

London, UK (SPX) Aug 23, 2012
A UK Space Agency-funded instrument, designed to investigate the interior structure and processes of Mars, has been selected to travel to the Red Planet on NASA's newly announced InSight mission. The new mission, set to launch in 2016, will take the first look into the deep interior of Mars to investigate why, as one of our solar system's rocky planets, the Red Planet evolved so differently from

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NASA selects DLR experiment for InSight mission
to Mars

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Berlin, Germany (SPX) Aug 23, 2012
After the successful landing of the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover, NASA has selected one more lander mission to Mars. The InSight mission will reach Mars in September 2016, after a six-month journey; it has been designed to take a 'look' into the deep interior of the Red Planet; it will do this with geophysical experiments including DLR's HP3, which will penetrate several metres into t

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NASA Mars Rover Begins Driving at Bradbury
Landing

post from Space Tourism, Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 22 August 2012 10:17:01 PM. © Space Tourism, Space Transport and Space Exploration News

Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 23, 2012
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has begun driving from its landing site, that scientists have named for the late author Ray Bradbury. Making its first movement on the Martian surface, Curiosity's drive combined forward, turn and reverse segments. This placed the rover roughly 20 feet (6 meters) from the spot where it landed 16 days ago. NASA has approved the Curiosity science team's choice to

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