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  1. Indonesia's traditional soybean cake, known as tempeh, undergoes fermentation in a workshop in a home in Jakarta January 18, 2008. REUTERS/Enny Nuraheni

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    Soy-based foods may lower sperm count

    Reuters - Thursday, July 24 12:19 am

    CHICAGO (Reuters) - Eating a half serving a day of soy-based foods could be enough to significantly lower a man's sperm count, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday. More »

  2. A group of white Lipizzan horses. The white coat of the Lipizzan horses performing at Vienna's prestigious Spanish riding school is caused by a mutated gene, a new study showed Sunday, solving a decades-old mystery over the horses' colour.

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    Lipizzan horses' white colour due to mutated gene: study

    AFP - Monday, July 21 07:18 am

    VIENNA (AFP) - The white coat of the Lipizzan horses performing at Vienna's prestigious Spanish riding school is caused by a mutated gene, a new study showed, solving a decades-old mystery over the horses' colour. More »

  3. Aerial view of the place where Solimoes and Negro Rivers come togheter with the Amazon River. Nutrients carried by the Amazon River help create a carbon sink deep in the Atlantic Ocean, a study released Monday has found.

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    Amazon powers Atlantic Ocean's carbon sink: study

    AFP - Monday, July 21 10:10 pm

    CHICAGO (AFP) - Nutrients carried by the Amazon River help create a carbon sink deep in the Atlantic Ocean, a study released Monday has found. More »

  4. Science

    World's first IVF baby marks 30th birthday

    AFP - Wednesday, July 23 02:42 am

    LONDON (AFP) - The birth of Louise Brown, the world's first IVF baby, hit headlines around the globe three decades ago -- but the married mother-of-one wants to keep her 30th birthday Friday low-key by contrast. More »

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    Hurricane Dolly swirls toward US-Mexico border

    AFP - Wednesday, July 23 08:32 am

    WASHINGTON, (AFP) - Hurricane Dolly churned over the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday toward the US-Mexican border, forcing thousands in Mexico to evacuate as US oil rigs put staff ashore and the US Navy sheltered aircraft. More »

  6. Science

    Consumer spending: Why nine is the magic number

    AFP - Wednesday, July 23 01:20 am

    PARIS (AFP) - Retailers' belief that customers like a price ending in a nine rather than a rounded-up zero -- 199.99 instead of 200.00, for instance -- has been borne out by scientific research on a restaurant menu. More »

  7. Science

    More icebergs scouring Antarctic seabed: study

    AFP - Thursday, July 17 07:07 pm

    CHICAGO (AFP) - Shrinking sea ice is significantly increasing the rate at which icebergs scour the Antarctic seabed, a study released Thursday has found. More »

  8. Science

    Arctic holds 90 billion barrels of oil, mostly offshore: report

    AFP - Thursday, July 24 01:56 am

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - Within the Arctic circle there are 90 billion barrels of oil and vast quantities of natural gas waiting to be tapped, most of it offshore, the government-run US Geological Survey said. More »

  9. Science

    Alcohol industry may face binge-drinking curbs

    Reuters - Tuesday, July 22 12:20 pm

    LONDON (Reuters) - The drinks industry may face tough new laws to deal with the country's binge-drinking culture, which costs the state health system an estimated 2.7 billion pounds each year, the government warned on Tuesday. More »

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    Los Angeles bans plastic bagging in stores

    AFP - Wednesday, July 23 01:35 am

    LOS ANGLES (AFP) - The city of Los Angeles announced it will ban all plastic bags from retail stores as of July 1, 2010, following similar anti-pollution regulations already enforced in San Francisco. More »

Most Viewed Photos - Science

  • 1.The International Space Station as seen from the US space shuttle Discovery in June 2008. The heads of five agencies building the International Space Station staged talks here Thursday on tackling a looming transport problem for the ISS and gave positive signals for extending the orbital outpost's life beyond 2015.AFP
  • 2.The world's first IVF baby Louise Brown (2nd right) with her son Cameron, her mother Lesley and IVF pioneer Professor Robert Edwards. The world's first IVF baby wants to keep her 30th birthday on Friday low-keyAFP
  • 3.Satellite image shows tropical storm Dolly entering the Gulf of Mexico as it moves towards the west-north US on July 21. Forecasters have issued a hurricane warning as the storm threatens to grow into a hurricane within 24 hoursAFP
  • 4.A group of white Lipizzan horses. The white coat of the Lipizzan horses performing at Vienna's prestigious Spanish riding school is caused by a mutated gene, a new study showed Sunday, solving a decades-old mystery over the horses' colour.AFP
  • 5.Aerial view of the place where Solimoes and Negro Rivers come togheter with the Amazon River. Nutrients carried by the Amazon River help create a carbon sink deep in the Atlantic Ocean, a study released Monday has found.AFP
  • 6.Former US Vice President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore outlines his vision for the future of US energy needs during a speech at the Daughters of the American Revolution Constitution Hall in Washington, DC. Gore urged Americans to shoot for the moon and make a total shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy to avert a global crisis sparked by climate change.AFP
  • 7.This NASA handout image shows Phobos. The European spacecraft Mars Express is to make a daring flyby of the Martian moon Phobos in the hope of gaining insights into its enigmatic surface, temperature and geological past, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Wednesday.AFP
  • 8.In this photo obtained from Fisheries and Oceans Canada, a rattail fish swims over a barren sea floor. Austrian and Canadian researchers will travel to the Arctic to examine links between climate change and high levels of poisonous heavy metals found in local fish, team leader Guenter Koeck said Wednesday.AFP
  • 9.International Space Station Commander Sergei Volkov (C) works at the base of the Strela hand-powered crane outside the PIRS airlock of the Russian segment of the ISS in this image from NASA TV July 10, 2008. Volkov and Flight Engineer Oleg Kononenko, attached to the Strela crane, will inspect the Soyuz TMA-12 spacecraft, remove one of the 10 pyrotechnic separation bolts at the interface of two sections of the spacecraft and, if time permits, install a docking target on the Zvezda module for the future arrival of a new Russian module REUTERS/NASA TVReuters
  • 10.A woman inspects the head of a Tyrannosaurus Rex dinosaur sculpture in Stuttgart, 2007. The belief that dinosaurs underwent explosive species diversification just before they were wiped out is an illusion, for the beasts' main evolutionary shifts took place millions of years before, a study says.AFP

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