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ISS Station Crew Discusses Mission with AP and CNN

January 20, 2012

The crew of The International Space Station spoke with representatives of The Associated Press and CNN during in-flight interviews on Jan. 20. With the recent arrival of Expedition 30 Flight Engineers Don Pettit, Oleg Kononenko and Andre Kuipers, the Station is now fully staffed with a six-member crew.

The trio joins Expedition 30 Commander Dan Burbank and Flight Engineers Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin who have been living and working on the station since Nov. 16. Pettit, Kononenko and Kuipers are scheduled to live and work aboard the orbiting laboratory until May.

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Collection of Today's Interesting Breaking Science News Articles from Psysorg and MedicalXpress

Collection of Today's Interesting Breaking Science News Articles from Psysorg and MedicalXpress Curated by +Cynthia Yildirim 

January 05, 2012 

1. Stephen Hawking to turn 70, defying disease - http://bit.ly/Ab7WgK British scientist Stephen Hawking has decoded some of the most puzzling mysteries of the universe but he has left one mystery unsolved: How he has managed to survive so long with such a crippling disease.

2. Majority of Americans say research and development are key to building US economy -http://bit.ly/AebIPJ The new edition of America Speaks, a compilation of public opinion polls commissioned by Research!America, demonstrates increasing public support for research and innovation to improve health, create jobs and boost the economy. However, nearly 60% of Americans don't believe we are making enough progress in medical research, and 54% don't believe the U.S. has the best health care system in the world.

3. Graphene's piezoelectric promise - http://bit.ly/wX3JIl _Engineers predict that graphene can be coaxed into acting piezoelectric, merely by punching triangular holes into the material. Engineers at the University of Houston have used quantum mechanical calculations to show that, merely by creating holes of a certain configuration in a sheet of graphene, they can coax graphene into behaving like a piezoelectric material.

4. You say you don't care about dating a hottie? - http://bit.ly/zWBYQV However, a new methodology that measures people's implicit, split-second responses gets around this problem. Research from Northwestern University and Texas A&M University measures whether people's implicit preferences actually predict how much you like the hotties.

5. Study finds air pollution linked to diabetes and hypertension in African-American women- http://bit.ly/xmy0pw While it is well established that air pollution increases the risks of acute cardiovascular events such as stroke and myocardial infarction, it is not known whether exposure increases the risk of chronic diseases like diabetes and hypertension. However, emerging findings from laboratory and clinical studies suggest that air pollution may predispose to both conditions.

6. Study finds statin costs 400 percent higher in US compared to UK - http://bit.ly/xmy0pw In the United States, the cost paid for statins (drugs to lower cholesterol) in people under the age of 65 who have private insurance is approximately 400 percent higher than comparable costs paid by the government in the United Kingdom (U.K.). These findings, from the Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) Boston Collaborative Drug Surveillance Program, are the first results of a comprehensive comparison of prescription drug costs between the U.S. and U.K. The study appears on-line in the journal Pharmacotherapy.

7. Flatworms' minimalist approach to cell division reveals molecular architecture of human centrosome - http://bit.ly/AewDYw Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco and the Stowers Institute for Medical Research have discovered that planarians, tiny flatworms fabled for their regenerative powers, completely lack centrosomes, cellular structures that organize the network of microtubules that pulls chromosomes apart during cell division.

8. Scientists 'hijack' bacterial immune system - http://bit.ly/yS6CDe The knowledge that bacteria possess adaptable immune systems that protect them from individual viruses and other foreign invaders is relatively new to science, and researchers across the globe are working to learn how these systems function and to apply that knowledge in industry and medicine.

9. Graphene rips follow rules: Simulations show carbon sheets tear along energetically favorable lines - http://bit.ly/xUllar Research from Rice University and the University of California at Berkeley may give science and industry a new way to manipulate graphene, the wonder material expected to play a role in advanced electronic, mechanical and thermal applications.

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Big Discovery from NASA on Earth: NASA-Funded Research Discovers Life Built With Toxic Chemical

January 02, 2012 

NASA-funded astrobiology research has changed the fundamental knowledge about what comprises all known life on Earth.Researchers conducting tests in the harsh environment of Mono Lake in California have discovered the first known microorganism on Earth able to thrive and reproduce using the toxic chemical arsenic. The microorganism substitutes arsenic for phosphorus in its cell components. 

Read more here: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/features/astrobiology_toxic_chemical.html

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