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When spring comes to Oklahoma, so do the fierce tornadoes
LONDON — For nearly 40 minutes, it travelled 32.2km across largely urban areas, sweeping up debris, trees and even entire homes in winds that are estimated to have reached 320 kmh.
NTU medical students to study plastinated human bodies
SINGAPORE — Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine), the new medical school of Nanyang Technological University (NTU), will be pioneering the use of plastinated bodies...
Polish man gets life-saving face transplant
WARSAW — A 33-year-old Polish man received a face transplant only three weeks after being disfigured in a workplace accident, in what his doctors said yesterday (May 22) is the...
Global AIDS programme at a crossroads
WASHINGTON — The decade-old law that transformed the battle against HIV and AIDS in developing countries is at a crossroads as the dream of future generations freed from...
Exploding meteorite may have sealed fate of mammoths
NEW YORK — A giant meteorite that exploded in the Earth’s atmosphere may have triggered the extinction of ice age animals such as the woolly mammoths, scientists have claimed.
Molecule from breast milk protein suppresses tumours
SINGAPORE — A molecule created from a protein present in human breast milk has been shown to have tumour-suppressing abilities, according to scientists from Nanyang...
Curiosity rover drills into second Martian rock
PASADENA (California) - NASA’s Curiosity rover drills again.
Russian space mice return to Earth
MOSCOW - A Russian capsule carrying mice, lizards and other small animals returned to Earth yesterday (May 20) after spending a month in space for what scientists said was the...
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