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Spacewalkers outfit station for final nodeCAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - A pair of spacewalking astronauts from the U.S. shuttle Discovery worked outside the
international Space
station on Saturday to lay power cables for the orbital outpost's last connecting node.
Reuters Sunday, September 06, 2009Astronauts Take Mission's Final SpacewalkDiscovery Crew Encounters Last-Minute Difficulty, Had to Leave One Job Undone
CBS News Sunday, September 06, 2009Piece from childhood virus may save soldiers' livesA harmless shard from the shell of a common childhood virus may halt a biological process that kills a significant percentage of battlefield casualties,
heart attack victims and oxygen-deprived newborns, according to research presented Sunday, Sept. 6, 2009, at the 12th European meeting on complement in human disease in Budapest, Hungary.
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Amazon Sunday, September 06, 2009Astronauts complete mission's final spacewalkTwo spacewalking astronauts took on shelving and antenna jobs at the
international space
station Saturday in their final trek outside.
USATODAY Sunday, September 06, 2009NY researchers breeding rare native ladybugsITHACA, N.Y. (AP) -- A year after they launched a nationwide search for dwindling native ladybugs, New York researchers are breeding colonies of them from insects found by citizen
scientists in Oregon and Colorado....
The Arizona Republic Sunday, September 06, 2009Researchers restore missing protein in rare genetic brain disorderUCSF researchers have successfully used protease inhibitors to restore to normal levels a key protein involved in early brain development. Reduced levels of that protein have been shown to cause the rare brain disorder lissencephaly, which is characterized by brain malformations, seizures, severe mental retardation and very early death in human infants.
Eurekalert.org Sunday, September 06, 2009Louis Rosen, 91, Dies; Worked on First Nuclear BombsDr. Rosen was one of two young physicists at Los Alamos, N.M., who devised a way to confirm that thermonuclear fusion had occurred in a hydrogen bomb test.
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