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India launches first moon mission

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The Indian satellite Chandrayaan-1, which means "lunar craft" in Sanskrit, is scheduled to orbit the moon for two years.
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Learning science

Using hip-hop to teach Newton's Three Laws of Motion, how "Nova" stays current, and the life and times of Albert Einstein....
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The Malleable Mind

How the brain can repair itself, the brain on drugs, how motherhood changes women’s brains, and future artificial brains....
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Debate grows over fMRI scans

A growing number of scientists question the use of brain scanning technology as a tool to decode the inner workings of the mind....
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Regulating nanotechnology

Nanotechnology's potential dangers, how it should be regulated, and why federal agencies have yet to meet the regulatory challenge. ...
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Arctic gender imbalance

Only girls are being born in a village in Greenland -- what may be behind a growing gender imbalance in babies born around the Arctic Circle....
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Olympic drug testing

Before the Olympics even begin there are concerns that Olympic anti-doping monitors won't be able to detect the blood-boosting drug EPO....
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How we remember

Researchers, doctors, scholars, historians and others talk about memory -- how it works and how it affects us....
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Oxytocin could play role in parenting behavior

Dutch researchers published a study that suggests our genes may determine our parenting behavior....
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Nanotechnology hits store shelves

Nanosilver can be found in toothpaste and even baby pacifiers -- a look at the safety of products produced with nanotechnology....
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