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'Dramatic' Landing Capped Challenging Spaceflight, Astronaut Says 23 Apr 08, 19:02 ET SPACE.com - The International Space Station's (ISS) first female commander said her 'dramatic' landing aboard a Russian spacecraft last week capped a landmark mission to build up the orbiting laboratory. more Embryonic stem cells coaxed into key heart cells 23 Apr 08, 18:28 ET Reuters - Scientists say they have coaxed human embryonic stem cells into becoming three of the major cell types in the human heart, and they improved cardiac function when transplanted into mice. more Papaya genome bares evolution's secrets 23 Apr 08, 18:17 ET Reuters - Papayas have extra copies of genes that make them sweet and nutritious, researchers reported on Wednesday in a study that can help shed light on how flowering plants evolved. more U.S. environment scientists report political meddling 23 Apr 08, 17:27 ET Reuters - Nearly 900 scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency have experienced political interference in their work in the last five years, the Union of Concerned Scientists reported on Wednesday. more NASA Awards Launch Services Contract to SpaceX 23 Apr 08, 17:01 ET SPACE.com - WASHINGTON -- NASA has awarded Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract for launch services on the company's Falcon 1 and planned Falcon 9 launch vehicles, the space agency announced Tuesday. more Electric Sail Prototype to Ride the Solar Wind 23 Apr 08, 17:01 ET SPACE.com - An electrically-charged solar sail with a possible "turbo" option may be ready for its first space trials in three years if scientists in Finland have their way. more Bugs Use Plants as Telephones 23 Apr 08, 14:25 ET LiveScience.com - "Hello? Yes, this is my plant. Thanks. Bye-bye." more U.S.-Brazilian venture to turn cane into biodiesel 23 Apr 08, 12:37 ET Reuters - U.S. company Amyris Biotechnologies and Brazilian sugar and ethanol group Crystalsev have formed a joint venture to produce and sell the first commercial diesel made from sugar cane instead of oilseeds like soy and canola., both sides said on Wednesday. more Gooey Origin of Human Placenta Revealed 23 Apr 08, 10:46 ET LiveScience.com - Someone seeing for the first time a placenta spill out of a woman s body after childbirth is likely surprised at how large it is and might wonder where it really came from. Scientists have no clue, either, at least insofar as evolution is concerned. more Why You Make the Same Mistake Twice 23 Apr 08, 09:20 ET LiveScience.com - We sure do learn from our mistakes, but what we learn is how to make more mistakes, new research shows. more Response to climate security threats 'slow and inadequate' 23 Apr 08, 03:08 ET AFP - The international response to security threats posed by climate change has been "slow and inadequate", according to a report published Wednesday. more

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