Link between self-control and crime outlined in study

11. May 2008, 23:13

A New Zealand study has given a detailed look at the link between self-control and why people get into crime.

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NASA looks to private sector for assistance in cutting space travel cost

11. May 2008, 22:22

NASA will increasingly look towards assistance from private companies to help it bring down the cost of space travel, the head of the space agency said at the weekend.

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Famous physicist launches search for Africa's Einsteins

11. May 2008, 21:08

Physicist Stephen Hawking has called for Africa's brilliant minds to be given better opportunities in a lecture delivered in Cape Town, South Africa on Sunday.

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Researchers urge AIDS rethink in Africa

8. May 2008, 23:55

On the twenty-fifth anniversary of the discovery of the AIDS virus, a team of scientists has warned that traditional prevention strategies are having a limited effect on the spread of the infection in sub-Saharan Africa.

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NASA set to boost supercomputer capacity

8. May 2008, 22:42

Space agency NASA will look to upgrade its processing capacity with the assistance of the Intel Corp and SGI to introduce a supercomputer capable of  1,000 trillion calculations per second.

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Earliest known American settlers had beachcomber tradition

8. May 2008, 21:17

Latest evidence to emerge from the Monte Verde archaeological site in southern Chile, has confirmed the earliest known Americans migrated down the Pacific Coast more than 14,000 years ago and had a tradition of existing on marine life.

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Scientists unravel unique platypus genome

7. May 2008, 23:05

An international team of researchers has decoded the genome of one of the world's oddest animals, and found its DNA pattern to be as strange as the animal's appearance.

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European space telescope makes missing matter find

7. May 2008, 22:13

The European Space Agency's (ESA) orbiting telescope has successfully managed to spot hot gas between two clusters of galaxies, confirming the previously only theorised existence of some of the universe's "missing matter".
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Historical NASA footage gets high definition makeover for TV

7. May 2008, 21:22

Space agency NASA has combined with the Discovery Channel to release over one hundred hours of historical footage as part of an epic TV mini-series.

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Researchers discover why food always looks better when you are hungry

7. May 2008, 01:31

A hormone found in the gut acts on the brain to make food look better, therefore making people eat more than is necessary, a new study has suggested. ... more

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