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- SpaceX's Dragon capsule successfully launched on mission to ISS
Space Exploration Technologies successfully launched its Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Dragon capsule from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Sunday. SpaceX is the first company to send supplies to the International Space Station. Unlike earlier cargo ships, the Dragon capsule can return to Earth carrying experiment samples and station hardware no longer needed at the space outpost. The success of the mission will also renew a U.S. supply line to the space station, which had been halted last year by the ending of the space shuttle program. Bloomberg
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- NASA telescopes capture image of dying star
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the Galaxy Evolution Explorer have captured an image of the Helix Nebula, a dying star that looks like a giant cosmic eye. The image is expected to provide a preview of the future of Earth's sun, which is expected to become a dying star in about 5 billion years. Space.com
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- Most powerful radio telescope starts up in Australian outback
Scientists started up the Australia Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder, considered the world's fastest radio telescope, in Western Australia on Friday. ASKAP, which uses 40-foot antennas and cutting-edge "radio cameras," has already been booked for the next five years with scientific researchers around the world. "Radio waves tell us unique things about the cosmos, about the gas from which stars were formed, and about exotic objects, pulsars and quasars, that really push the boundaries of our knowledge of the physical laws in the universe," said ASKAP project director Brian Boyle. Reuters
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- Scientists resume search for ancient computing devices
Scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Greece's Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities revisited a wreck site in Antikythera, a small island between the Peloponnese and Crete, where the world's first computing mechanism was found in 1901. The group hopes to find other mechanical devices similar to the Antikythera Mechanism, which dates from the first century B.C. and is thought to be a navigational aide, possibly used to forecast the path of planets. The Register (U.K.)
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- Mammoth in Siberia uncovered in excellent condition
A 1,100-pound teenage mammoth, which scientists believe may have been killed by a hunter on a summer day thousands of years ago, was excavated on the North Siberian Taimyr peninsula in late September. The mammoth, named Jenya, after the 11-year-old Russian boy who discovered its legs protruding from the frozen mud, is one of the best-preserved specimens ever found. But its DNA has been damaged by low temperatures, making Jenya unsuitable for cloning, said Professor Alexei Tikhonov of the Zoology Institute in St. Petersburg, who announced the findings. NBC News/The Associated Press
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- Researchers provide clues on how elephants communicate
 Elephants emit a rumbling sound when they are making a decision, say researchers who have been studying them for two decades. The researchers observed watering holes and found that the rumbling sound will be initiated by the leader in the group, followed by the other dominant members of the group. "It demonstrates there's a very coordinated organized structure," said Stanford University behavioral ecologist Caitlin O'Connell-Rodwell. ScienceMag.org
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- Study: Severe anemia is a risk factor in heart surgery patients
Adults with severe anemia are more likely to die or suffer a stroke after heart surgery than patients without the condition, Italian researchers reported in the October issue of The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. Their study of 401 adult heart surgery patients also linked severe anemia to prolonged mechanical ventilation and longer ICU stays after surgery, and recommended "working to correct and preserve the natural hemoglobin in a patient's blood prior to surgery" with iron supplementation and medications that foment the production of red blood cells. HealthDay News
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