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GFAJ-1 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, Dec 02, 2010

The GFAJ-1 microoorganism was cultured and discovered by Felisa Wolfe-Simon, a NASA astrobiology fellow in residence at the US Geologic Survey in Menlo Park, California. The organism was isolated and cultured beginning in 2009 from sediments she and her colleagues collected along the shore of Mono Lake, California, U.S.A.[2] Mono Lake is hypersaline and highly alkaline. It also has one of the highest natural concentrations of arsenic in the world (200 μM).[3] The discovery was widely publicized on December 2, 2010.

Astrobiology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

On December 2, 2010 it was announced the discovery of a terrestrial extremophile bacterium (GFAJ-1) that uses the usually poisonous element arsenic in place of phosphorus.[32] The find gives weight to the long-standing idea that life on other planets may have a radically different chemical makeup and may help in hunt for alien life.

Arsenic-munching germ redefines "life as we know it" - Yahoo! News

The "Tufa" formations will slowly be re-submerged into the briny water where they were formed by an underwater chemical reaction between submerged fre
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By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor Maggie Fox, Health And Science Editor
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A strange, salty lake in California has yielded an equally strange bacterium that thrives on arsenic and redefines life as we know it, researchers reported on Thursday. The bacteria do not merely eat arsenic -- they incorporate the toxic element directly into their DNA, the researchers said. The finding shows just how little scientists know about the variety of life forms on Earth, and may greatly expand where they should be looking for life on other planets and moons, the NASA-funded team said. "We have cracked open the door to what is possible for life elsewhere in the universe," Felisa Wolfe-Simon of the NASA Astrobiology Institute and U.S. Geological Survey, who led the study, told a news conference.

Poison-Based Bacteria Redefines Life As We Know It

Poison-Based Bacteria Redefines Life As We Know It
Arsenic is an element that is deadly to most living creatures, but bacteria living in California's Lake Mono thrive on it. Today NASA explains how those poison-eating organisms are changing the way we search for extraterrestrial life.

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BBC News - Eminem leads Grammy nominations

Eminem
Eminem is the leading contender for the Grammy Awards with 10 nominations including album of the year. The 38-year-old rapper was followed by Bruno Mars with seven nods, while Lady Gaga, Jay-Z and country group Lady Antebellum all netted six nominations.
UK acts including Florence and the Machine, Mumford and Sons and Susan

BBC News - Web bug reveals browsing history

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Porn sites are among those hijacking the history files of visitors to their sites.Porn sites are among the top users of a browser bug that reveals all the places people go online, finds research. Carried out by computer science researchers at UC San Diego the study found 485 sites exploiting the bug. The flaw gives sites access to all the other sites that user has visited.

BBC News - Coca leaves first chewed 8,000 years ago, says research

Coca leaves at Bolivian market (AP)
Peruvian foraging societies were already chewing coca leaves 8,000 years ago, archaeological evidence has shown. Ruins beneath house floors in the northwestern Peru showed evidence of chewed coca and calcium-rich rocks. Such rocks would have been burned to create lime, chewed with coca to release more of its active chemicals.

BBC News - Index finger length prostate cancer clue

Male baby in the womb
Babies are exposed to hormones in the womb. The length of a man's fingers can provide clues to his risk of prostate cancer, according to new research. A British Journal of Cancer study found men whose index finger was longer than their ring finger were significantly less likely to develop the disease. Researchers made the discovery after comparing the hands of 1,500 prostate cancer

BBC News - Carla Bruni praises Pope over condoms on World Aids Day, Dec 02, 2010

Carla Bruni at a gala dinner in Paris for the French Aids/HIV charity AIDES, 27 November
Carla Bruni acts as an ambassador for a fund to combat Aids
French first lady Carla Bruni has publicly thanked Pope Benedict for saying the use of condoms to prevent HIV/Aids may be justified.
She said in an interview to mark World Aids Day that she was "astonished, surprised and grateful" for the Pope's remarks, publicised last month.
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BBC Sport - Football - World Cup vote live - decision day

Spain's players celebrate winning the World Cup in South Africa
Fifa will name the hosts for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups in Zurich on Thursday, with the US - hoping to stage the tournament for the first time since 1994 - in the running for 2022. Sport

BBC News - Wikileaks: Sri Lanka's Rajapaksa blamed for killings

Mr Rajapaksa greets supporters at the swearing-in ceremony
President Mahinda Rajapaksa's visit to the UK has been disrupted by protesters
A US envoy believed the president of Sri Lanka bore responsibility for an alleged 2009 massacre of Tamils, suggest cables obtained by Wikileaks.The claim was reported in a message from the US envoy in Colombo.It comes as Sri Lanka's parliament was

BBC News - Egypt Muslim Brotherhood 'quits election'

Opposition activists protest in Cairo. 29 Nov
Opposition supporters have reacted angrily after the first round of voting
Egypt's main opposition movement the Muslim Brotherhood says it is withdrawing its candidates from the election run-off, reports say. The Islamist movement, which is banned but runs candidates as independents, failed to win a single seat in Sunday's first round.

BBC News - Cuba begins public debate on economic reforms

People walk past a poster of Fidel Castro on a bookshop window in Havana
What do the Cuban people think? Cuba has launched a public debate on plans to transform its socialist economy by reducing the role of the state and boosting private enterprise. Ordinary Cubans are being encouraged to discuss the changes so their views can be taken into account at a ruling communist party congress next April

BBC News - Wikileaks founder Julian Assange faces new warrant

Julian Assange, file pic
Mr Assange has dismissed the allegations against him as part of a smear campaign
Swedish authorities have issued a fresh arrest warrant for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange following a procedural error with the first.
The detention order for Mr Assange, who is believed to be in Britain, concerns alleged sexual crimes during a visit

BBC News - Qantas begins legal action against Rolls-Royce

Qantas has begun legal action against the engine supplier Rolls-Royce following the explosion of an engine on one of the airline's Airbus A380s.

It said the legal action was back-up in case a settlement could not be reached.

BBC News - Ivory Coast election: Alassane Ouattara office attacked

UN peacekeeper in Abidjan 
Some 8,000 UN peacekeepers are trying to keep a lid on the tension. An office of Ivory Coast opposition leader Alassane Ouattara has been attacked in the main city Abidjan, with at least four people killed. The violence broke out despite a night-time curfew, as a deadline passed to release the results of Sunday's presidential election run-off.

BBC News - Snow leaves travellers facing further severe disruption

Travellers across parts of the UK face further misery as airports, roads and rail continue to be badly hit by snow.

The closure of Gatwick Airport has been extended until at least 0600 GMT on Friday, after a further heavy snowfall.

NASA’S BIG ANNOUNCEMENT | Weekly World News

December 2nd, NASA will announce that they have found evidence of xtraterrestrial life on Mars and Jupiter.
NASA has stated that they will make a big announcement over on Thursday, December 2nd, 2010, at 2 PM Eastern time.
WWN has inside sources at NASA and has learned that they will announce that

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Ivory Coast Election Body 'Still Working' on Results
BusinessWeek
By Pauline Bax and Olivier Monnier Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Ivory Coast's election commission said it was still tabulating ballots from the country's Nov. 28 presidential runoff, missing a key deadline amid calls from international groups to announce a ...
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Further weather chaos for Europe
BBC News
Heavy snow and sub-zero temperatures are set to cause another day of disruption on road and rail networks, and at airports across northern Europe. Temperatures dropped to as low as -26C (-14.8F) in Poland, where eight people died of exposure. ...
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Opposition cries foul in Egypt
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
CAIRO -- Egypt's top two opposition movements on Wednesday pulled out of parliamentary elections after they were all but shut out in a first round of voting, in a surprise response to widespread allegations of fraud. The move by the fundamentalist ...
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Sudan referendum galvanizing refugees outside Sudan
Christian Science Monitor
Sudanese refugees who fled to Kenya are making preparations to vote in the upcoming Sudan referendum, even though they've moved outside the country's borders. Sudanese refugee women line up at a polling station in the refugee camp of Abou Shouk at the ...
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Spain Reveals Plan to Reduce Its Giant Debt
New York Times
By RAPHAEL MINDER MADRID — The Spanish prime minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, introduced measures Wednesday intended to distance Spain from Ireland and other ailing European countries. Mr. Zapatero said the state would sell stakes in several ...
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Belarus agrees to give up its stock of weapons-grade uranium
Washington Post
By Glenn Kessler and Mary Beth Sheridan ASTANA, KAZAKHSTAN - In a surprise victory for President Obama's campaign to secure nuclear material worldwide, the government of Belarus announced Wednesday that it will give up its stock of highly enriched ...
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U.S. sees time for Iran diplomacy, says sanctions bite
Reuters
By David Lawder and Arshad Mohammed WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said on Wednesday there is still time for a diplomatic solution with Iran but the increasingly defiant state must take "tangible steps" to address concerns about its nuclear ...
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China, Brazil Say Debate on Kyoto Accord Threatens Climate Talks
Bloomberg
By Alex Morales and Kim Chipman - Thu Dec 02 06:29:23 GMT 2010 China and Brazil led developing nations in saying Japan's refusal to help extend the Kyoto Protocol to curb greenhouse gas emissions may halt work on a global accord to combat global ...
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Passport ring served terrorists, police say
Boston Globe
By Raphael Minder and J. David Goodman MADRID — Police in Spain and Thailand arrested 10 people suspected of operating a counterfeiting network that provided fake European passports to terrorist groups linked to Al Qaeda in order to smooth their entry ...
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Suu Kyi sees role as facilitator of network for Myanmar democracy
Monsters and Critics.com
Singapore - Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi said she wanted to act as a facilitator for an international network to promote democracy in her military-ruled country, a Singapore news report said Thursday. The 65-year-old Nobel Peace laureate, ...
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NASA'S BIG ANNOUNCEMENT | Weekly World News
By Tap Vann
The news conference will be held at the NASA Headquarters in Washington and will be broadcast on NASA Television and on the agency's website at www.nasa.gov. NASA will also reveal that there is, in fact, an alien invasion under way. ...
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Age reversing solution working on mice | World News Heard now
By Jenny.Lorenzo
Scientists in Boston made an amazing discovery while testing various theories on mice. Dr. Ronald DePinho at Harvard Medical School in Boston said they managed.
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Rev. Jesse Jackson: Cutting exceptional poverty should be nation's ...
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The Countdown is On for the World Cup! – Fox News | The World News ...
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Fox News The Countdown is On for the World Cup! Fox News AP Landon Donovan, front left, here celebrating after scoring a goal during the 2010 World Cup, hopes he can help land a bid for the United States to host the 2022 World Cup.
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Protection from bed bugs while travelling | Security World News
By Cristiano Ronaldo
The myth that bed bugs can only be located in dirty and filthy areas is in fact not entirely true. It was recently reported in the news that a leading 4-star.
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U.S.-South Korea military exercises begin: U.S. official - Yahoo! News
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The List: Every event worth listing Thu., Dec. 2-Wed., Dec. 8
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Mame Based on the novel Auntie Mame, the dramatic bohemian Mame Dennis's eccentric lifestyle is interrupted when her late brother's son is entrusted to her ...
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