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CAIRO, Egypt - Al-Qaida’s deputy leader denounced last month’s Mideast peace conference in Annapolis, Md., as a “betrayal” of Palestinians in a new audio message posted Friday on an Islamic militant Web site,It was the first reaction by the terrorist network to the Mideast conference, sponsored by President Bush and attended by key Arab countries, […]

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NUSA DUA, Indonesia (AFP) - A marathon conference on how to fight global warming in the next decade was poised for a breakthrough, with the United States showing flexibility, the UN climate chief said late Friday.
The 190-nation talks on the Indonesian island of Bali headed deep into overtime after the United States and European Union […]

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Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have unveiled important details about a class of catalysts that could help improve the performance of fuel cells. With the goal of producing “clean” hydrogen for fuel cell reactions in mind, the researchers determined why two next-generation catalysts including gold, cerium, titanium, and oxygen nanomaterials […]

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Although they look normal, people suffering from body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) perceive themselves as ugly and disfigured. New imaging research reveals that the brains of people with BDD look normal, but function abnormally when processing visual details. The UCLA findings are the first to demonstrate a biological reason for patients’ distorted body image.”Our discovery suggests […]

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Barry Dickson, director of the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Austria, and his group are interested in the genetic basis of innate behaviour. They focus on the reproductive behaviour of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Two years ago, the team was able to identify the fruitless gene as a key regulator of mating […]

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