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A subsidiary of Community Health Systems has acquired the remainder of the shares of Affinity Medical Center, a 268-bed hospital in Massillon, Ohio, the company announced. (CYH)

British Antarctic Survey finds 10 new emperor penguins colonies using satellite images that show patches of guanoStretches of excrement-stained ice that are so large they are visible from space have helped scientists to locate 10 newly discovered emperor penguin colonies in Antarctica.Researchers at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have used satellite images, created to survey the sea ice around Antarctica's coast, to identify emperor penguin colonies using the huge tell-tale reddish-brown patches the birds leave behind.BAS mapping expert, Peter Fretwell, said it was a 'fortuitous' discovery. He noticed that patches on the ice in a satellite image corresponded with a known colony. The images, which came from the Landsat Image Mosaic Of Antarctica (LIMA), compiled by Nasa, USGS, National Science Foundation (NSF) and BAS, provide a high-resolution satellite view of the Antarctic continent.By studying the images, the scientists discovered that guano stains are reliable indicators of th

The space shuttle Atlantis is on its way back to its home base in Florida after a historic trip to repair the Hubble Space Telescope – see the best images from the 13-day mission

Nasa engineers are preparing the shuttle Endeavour for its mission to the International Space Station later this month.

Scientists looking for lost penguins stumbled upon an effective method: Follow their poop from space. Scientists at the British Antarctic Survey found this out by accident when they were looking at satellite images of their bases.

It may be an off-year for the video game console, but you wouldn't know it by the lines outside the Galen Center, at the University of Southern California, where Microsoft was having its annual E3 press conference.

The Flexible Display Center at Arizona State University and Universal Display Corporation today introduced the first a-Si:H active matrix flexible organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display to be manufactured directly on DuPont Teijin's polyethylene naphthalate substrate.

Curtis Inc., a video and multimedia production company, spent $1.6 million to consolidate its operations in Queensgate.

Imagine a local facility that could provide experimental treatments to as many patients as one of the leading cancer research facilities in the nation.

More than 17 million US children live more than an hour away by ground or air transportation from a life-saving pediatric trauma center, according to a new study by researchers at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania. The creation of a national inventory of pediatric trauma centers may help to identify the locations of gaps and greatly improve access to care for US children, the authors said.