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LONDON (Reuters) - It's a discovery that would make even Sherlock Holmes proud.

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Scientists in London have traced the embryonic changes that occur in children with Down's syndrome

AP - Smog, soot and other particles like the kind often seen hanging over beijing add to global warming and may raise summer temperatures in the american heartland by three degrees in about 50 years, says a new federal science report released Thursday.

Astronomers have found the first object in the icy Kuiper belt that orbits the Sun backwards compared to the planets

Even scientists define "a gene" indifferent ways, so it comes as littlesurprise that the media also havevarious ways of framing the conceptof a gene, according to a new studyappearing in the October 2008 issueof EMBO reports.

A new report published Sept. 5 provides the most comprehensive evidence available to confirm that the Large Hadron Collider's switch-on, due on Wednesday next week, poses no threat to mankind. Nature's own cosmic rays regularly produce more powerful particle collisions than those planned within the LHC, which will enable nature's laws to be studied in controlled experiments.