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Science news on Wikipedia February 13: Researchers at Yale School of Medicine develop a blood test which detects early stage ovarian cancer with 99 percent accuracy. (ScienceDaily) February 13: A transitional fossil in bat evolution may help resolve a longstanding debate, whether echolocation or flight came first. The 52 million year old fossil has wing development while the ear lacks echolocation structures. (ScienceDaily) February 11: Researchers at the University of Delaware find a promising way to repair the gene defect that causes spinal muscular atrophy. (UDel) February 11: A rat study found that rats given artificial sweetener gained more weight than those on a sugar diet. Scientists speculate the body increases the metabolism anticipating calories that never come, then requires more food to make up the shortfall. (SciAm) February 8: The first commercial vessel to use a kite to help save fuel created by SkySails finished its maiden voyage. Estimates are that the ship saved 10-15% fuel while the kite was in use, which translates into $1,000 to $1,500 in fuel costs per day.(Nature) February 8: San Diego scientists have successfully used stem cells to treat Type I diabetes in mice. (NewScientist) February 7: A new knee device is demonstrated that can generate electricity efficiently from walking with minimal effort. The system acquires energy from deceleration similar to how hybrid-electric cars regain energy from regenerative braking. (CBC) February 7: New studies in the journal Science conclude Biofuels are not beneficial to climate change, as they require increased land use to grow crops and unintentionally increases the cost of food. (SciAm) ...Archive

Science news on Wikinews June 12: Romanian fighter jet hit by UFOs June 12: Kai-fu Lee: Developers will rule the next-generation Internet world June 12: 2008 DRAMeXchange Compuforum: Global DRAM market to be changed majorly June 12: Scientists suggest scaring toads to limit population June 12: 2008 Google Developer Day starts from Yokohama, Japan June 11: NASA's Phoenix Lander has an oven full of Martian soil June 10: US energy department reveals world's fastest computer June 10: Apple launches 3G iPhone June 9: 2008 COMPUTEX Taipei: Another insight of "Design" June 9: 2008 e21FORUM: Intel confronts Microsoft again

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• February 5: Compound PTC124 also proves effective against cystic fibrosis. As PTC124 appears to suppress "nonsense mutations" it may help in treating more than 2,400 genetic diseases. (PhysOrg)

• February 5: British scientists use a healthy mitochondrion from a second women to create human embryos containing DNA from two women and one man. This may prevent conditions including epilepsy, diabetes and heart failure. (PhysOrg)

• February 4: A doubling of storage capacity for phase-change memory is announced by Intel. This kind of memory combines the power efficiency of flash memory with the speed of random-access memory. (TechnologyReview)

• February 3: A new technique for reading a single strand of DNA and RNA which does not require chemical agents or detours has been developed by scientists at the Institute for Analytical Sciences (Dortmund). (ScienceDaily)

• January 19: Scaled Composites, a private spaceflight company, was fined for unsafety following an explosion at the Mojave Spaceport. (LA Times)

• January 14, 2008: MESSENGER, a NASA mission, flies by Mercury, the second spacecraft to do so and the first in thirty-three years. (BBCNews)

• January 4: Intel Corporation leaves the One Laptop per Child project's board amid controversy over its marketing of the Classmate PC in developing countries. (Reuters)

• January 3: Researchers publish the first time observation of a planet in a newly forming planetary system, TW Hydrae, in the journal Nature. (BBCNews)

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