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For DARPA, the secretive military research agency, it's not enough for a prosthetic limb to simply resemble a normal one, or for a patient to be able to move it through some remote control. DARPA-backed engineers are attempting to build a system in which peripheral nerves would be reattached to artificial limbs, which could send signals to a brain sensor that could reply. This would be a vast improvement over prosthetics that require conscious directives, and could turn a prosthetic into somethi

Lauren Lynch reports the latest in tennis and preview matches to come. Samantha Stosur snapped Caroline Wozniacki's 11-match winning streak at the season-ending WTA Championships in Doha. Jim Courier was officially named U.S. Davis Cup captain at a USTA ceremony in Manhattan today.

From Ed Yong: For most insects, walking onto a spider’s web and disturbing the sticky threads would be a very bad idea. The distinctive vibrations of wriggling prey only serve to draw the spider closer and inevitably ends in the insect getting bitten, wrapped in silk and digested.  But this story doesn’t always unfold in the spider’s favour. Some vibrations aren’t made by helpless prey, but by an assassin lurking on the web. The assassin bug (Stenolemus bituberus) is a spider-hunter. Sometimes

We know things are bad for biodiversity. But just how bad across the board? The scientists at the International Union for Conservation of Nature, as they will from time to time, just updated their Red List—an accounting of how much trouble vertebrate species face. According to them, one in five around the world is threatened, and the numbers are worse for groups like sharks and amphibians. The survey results, which are coming out in the journal Science, are based on research conducted in near

Kim Douglass fills in the latest on tennis twitter behavior. Updates from Andy Roddick @andyroddick happy about the new Davis Cup captian Jim Courier replacing @PatrickMcEnroe, Serena Williams @serenawilliams is in a funk, Janko Tipsarevic @jankotipsarevic embarrassed, Justin Gimelstob @justingimelstob lost his wallet, and Jamie Murray @Jamie_murray gives his take on love. Follow @Tennis_Now!
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African countries must mobilise domestic revenue and diversify their economies to supplement resources that flow into the continent from foreign aid, loans and investment to sustain growth during the global financial crisis, the head of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) said today.

Creighton men's basketball player Kenny Lawson Jr. was named the Missouri Valley Conference preseason player of the year on Tuesday and the Bluejays, under first-year coach Greg McDermott, wer…

Pacific Media Centre style guide Tony Murrow Wed, 27/10/2010 - 12:24pm

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On November 4, NASA's mission EPOXI will make a flyby less than 450 miles from the comet Hartley 2. Here's what to know about this dirty snowball. 1. It's a frequent visitor. Malcolm Hartley discovered this namesake comet 24 years ago, and it's returned to swing around the sun a few times since. Like the famous Halley's Comet, Comet Hartley 2 is a periodic comet that follows a years-long loop around the sun. It takes 6.46 years to complete one circuit, compared with Halley's 75.3 years. [Chris