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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan cleared the way for a law allowing non-aggressive military use of space on Friday, overturning a decades-old policy of limiting space development to peaceful uses.

THE fight against AIDS in Africa is founded on ineffective strategies and should focus on male circumcision and reducing promiscuity.

AP - Since they first walked the planet, humans have either buried or burned their dead. Now a new option is generating interest ? dissolving bodies in lye and flushing the brownish, syrupy residue down the drain.

[The following is an exact transcript of this podcast.]Would America be a better place if more people with Science training held elective office? One organization that thinks so is Scientists and Engineers for America, or SEA. On May 10th, they’re holding a day-long workshop in Washington, D.C., to teach researchers the nuts and bolts of running for office. More than 70 attendees have signed up. [More]

Scientists in Hobart are starting small in their bid to discover the answers to one of the world's biggest problems: they are researching krill in the hope of finding out what impact climate change may be having in the Southern Ocean.

IBM has designed a supercomputer that is water-cooled. It's the first one in the United States, and it is destined for scientists working on models of how climate is likely to change regional weather patterns — one of the most demanding problems in the climate Science world.

An international group of scientists has swapped their comfortable offices for one of the most inhospitable environments on the planet to carry out a challenging field campaign that is seen as the key to ensuring the data delivered by ESA's ice mission CryoSat will be as accurate as possible.

New evidence, more questions. That's the thumbnail of the first new data reported in 10 years from Monte Verde, the earliest known human settlement in the Americas.

New research on the Antennae Galaxies using the Advanced Camera for Surveys onboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows that this benchmark pair of interacting galaxies is in fact much closer than previously thought -- 45 million light-years instead of 65 million light-years.

Swimmers wearing space age suit break world records