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America's plans for opening the space frontier - including new human exploration of Earth's moon and future voyages into the solar system beyond - are featured in an interactive exhibit scheduled to visit the Ocean City (Md.) Air Show June 13-14.

As part of the 18th Loebner Prize, all of the artificial conversational entities (ACEs) competing to pass the Turing Test have managed to fool at least one of their human interrogators that they were in fact communicating with a human rather than a machine.

More than 75% of people suffering from mental disorders in the developing world receive no treatment or care. A new WHO programme launched today, on World Mental Health Day 2008 highlights the huge treatment gap for a number of mental, neurological and substance use disorders.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) yesterday cleared a new test developed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to diagnose human influenza infections and the highly pathogenic influenza A (H5N1) viruses.

The study's findings could help doctors and patients make more informed decisions when considering the procedure.

Two researchers at the University of Michigan have been appointed as Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators.

Researchers from McGill University and the University of Toronto have discovered that the mutation which causes pyruvate kinase deficiency - a genetic disorder of blood cells - protects its carriers against malaria.

Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Philips) is failing to take responsibility for the take-back of its used products.

Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, have identified a language feature unique to the human brain that is shedding light on how human language evolved.

Gift from Robert and Marge Alpern will aid U-M scientists' efforts in all types of stem cell research

EPA commends Crown Cork and Seal for demonstrating how facilities can make changes in carrying out their work in a more environmentally-protective way.

Researchers at Johns Hopkins have identified a common genetic alteration that appears to be associated with autism only when inherited by sons from their mother.

MIT and New York University researchers have identified a weakness in the defenses of the anthrax bacterium that could be exploited to produce new antibiotics.

A scientist has uncovered one of the "missing links" in understanding visual signals that determine where and why we move our eyes to focus on details in our environment.

NASA's Constellation Program has released a broad agency announcement for study proposals to evaluate human landing craft concepts for exploring the moon.

Just in time for Halloween, researchers are releasing new data that show darkness increases the impact of social stress, in an article scheduled for publication in the November 15th issue of Biological Psychiatry.

Though the overall incidence of head and neck cancers has fallen in the United States, the rate of oropharyngeal cancers is stagnant and appears to be rising is certain populations and these trends are likely due to oncogenic human papillomavirus (HPV) infection.

Some biochemical processes, especially those in bacteria, have been so well studied it's assumed that no discoveries are left to be made.

Johns Hopkins scientists have found yet another reason why you should listen to your mother when she tells you to eat your vegetables.

If you think that the idea of a morning person or an evening person is nonsense, then postgraduate student Martin Sale and his colleagues from the University of Adelaide have news for you.