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JAXA confirms acceleration of IKAROS solar sail by photon pressure

Tags: Space

Acceleration of the IKAROS spacecraft by solar pressure has been confirmed.

Are we conscious or unconscious consumers?

Our brains may unconsciously evaluate products when we’re not attending to them.

Planck All-sky

The Planck spacecraft, designed to observe the cosmic microwave in unprecedented detail, releases its first all sky map.

What does that MRI signal MEAN, anyway?

Using light-activated cells appear to confirm that fMRI scans really do tell us what happens in the brain.

Vaccine against 2009 pandemic flu also protects mice against 1918 strain

Tags: Medicine

Mice administered a vaccine against the 2009 pandemic flu appear to be protected from the deadly 1918 flu.

Growing New Livers

Tags: Medicine

Partially functioning new livers are grown from hepatocyte stem cells around a scaffold.

Lungs rebuilt in lab and transplanted into rats

Tags: Medicine

A mouse breathes through a rebuilt lung grown around a scaffolding from an existing lung.

Your brain sees your hands as short and fat

The brain's model of our hands seems to be very distorted from how they actually are.

Hayabusa Returns to Earth with a Flash

Tags: Space

After seven years in space, the Hayabusa mission has come to an end.

How many planets are out there? First Results from Kepler!

The science team for the Kepler spacecraft announces the discovery of 306 new extrasolar planets.

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