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TISSUE OF DEAD HUMANS TO BE CLONED

Scientists are to be permitted to use tissue from dead people to create cloned human stem cells for research, under a legal change put forward by the government.

Health ministers have proposed that laboratories should be allowed to use stored human tissue to create cloned embryonic stem cells without the explicit consent of the tissue donor. This would allow research to be done on tissue donated for medical research as long as 30 years ago. Scientists would also be able to use cells from people who have died since they donated their tissue or who cannot be contacted.

Many laboratories have banks of stored tissue which act as DNA libraries that can play a vital role in finding cures for serious disorders such as diabetes and motor neurone disease.

Ministers have until now insisted that scientists contact tissue donors to gain explicit consent before DNA can be used to create cloned embryonic stem cells.

Leading scientists, including three Nobel prize winners, say gaining such consent is sometimes impossible because the donors have died, donated anonymously or cannot be contacted. They say the ban on using DNA without consent could hold up vital research

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Computer trained to 'read' mind

A computer has been trained to "read" people's minds by looking at scans of their brains as they thought about specific words, researchers said on Thursday.

They hope their study, published in the journal Science, might lead to better understanding of how and where the brain stores information.

"The question we are trying to get at is one people have been thinking about for centuries, which is: How does the brain organize knowledge?" Mitchell said in a telephone interview.

"It is only in the last 10 or 15 years that we have this way that we can study this question."

Mitchell's team used functional magnetic resonance imaging, a type of brain scan that can see real-time brain activity.

They calibrated the computer by having nine student volunteers think of 58 different words, while imaging their brain activity.

"We gave instructions to people where we would tell them, 'We are going to show you words and we would like you, when you see this word, to think about its properties,"' Mitchell said.

They imaged each of the nine people thinking about the 58 different words, to create a kind of "average" image of a word.

"If I show you the brain images for two words, the main thing you notice is that they look pretty much alike.

If you look at them for a while you might see subtle differences," Mitchell said.

"We have the program calculate the mean brain activity over all of the words that somebody has looked at.

That gives us the average when somebody thinks about a word, and then we subtract that average out from all those images,"

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MONKEYS USE BRAIN SIGNALS TO OPERATE ROBOTIC ARM

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have done what until now has only been on the drawing board. They have made it possible for a monkey to move a robotic arm with brain signals.

Experts say the technology could help individuals who are paralyzed due to spinal cord injuries or who are unable to move to due conditions such as Lou Gehrig's disease.

In a study published this week in the journal Nature, researchers report they have made it possible for two monkeys to feed themselves marshmallows and chunks of fruit with human-like precision using a robotic arm activated by signals from a region of the brain known as the cerebral cortex.

During the experiments, the monkeys' arms were tied to their sides and the robotic arm was placed at the shoulder.

Senior study author Andrew Schwartz of the University of Pittsburgh's School of Medicine says thin wires placed in the animals' brains detected movement signals given off by about one hundred neurons or nerve cells in the motor cortex.

Schwartz says the signals were then fed into a computer, which generates movement in the robot arm that is extremely life-like.

‘Using this in a really natural way, the movement is smooth,’ said Andrew Schwartz. ‘It has the same kind of velocity profile and movement characteristics as a real movement would.’

Schwartz says researchers can only speculate how the primates learn to use the robotic arm.

‘It's hard to ask the monkeys what they are feeling,’ he said. ‘But it seems to me that it would be like the kind of skill that you have when you work a mouse and look at the cursor on your computer screen.

It doesn't take very long before you are just thinking about the cursor and you are not considering about what your hand is doing at all.’

In fact, your hand is moving on the table top and your cursor is moving on the screen, which is perpendicular, but you don't make that transformation consciously

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Extinct animal's DNA reactivated

In a breakthrough Jurassic Park-like experiment, scientists have resurrected genes from the Tasmanian tiger - a meat-eating marsupial that became extinct more than 70 years ago - by injecting them into mouse embryos.

The Tasmanian tiger, the largest of the carnivorous marsupials, was wiped out in the wild by intensive hunting in the early 1900s. The stripy, wolf-like creatures grew up to six feet in length and had long, stiff tails and bulky heads.

Researchers at the University of Melbourne and Texas University in Houston extracted DNA from four 100-year-old museum specimens, including three preserved in alcohol, the journal PLoS One reported.

They isolated a string of genes from each and injected it into early-stage mouse embryos.

Tests on the growing mice revealed that a gene from the Tasmanian tiger called Col2a1 had switched on and was driving the growth of bone and cartilage in the young animals.

"This is the first time DNA from an extinct species has been used to induce a functional response in another living organism," said Andrew Pask, who led the study. Scientists now hope to use the technique to understand the role of other genes found in extinct animals.

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Designer babies

News that scientists have for the first time genetically altered a human embryo is drawing fire from some watchdog groups that say it's a step toward creating "designer babies."

But an author of the study says the work was focused on stem cells. He notes that the researchers used an abnormal embryo that could never have developed into a baby anyway.

The idea of designer babies is that someday, scientists may insert particular genes into embryos to produce babies with desired traits like intelligence or athletic ability.

Some people find that notion repugnant, saying it turns children into designed objects, and would create an unequal society where some people are genetically enriched while others would be considered inferior.

The study appears to be the first report of genetically modifying a human embryo. It was done with an embryo that had extra chromosomes, making it nonviable.

The goal was to see if a gene introduced into an abnormal embryo could be traced in stem cells that are harvested from the embryo, he said. Such work could help shed light on why abnormal embryos fail to develop

But Kathy Hudson, director of the Genetics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C., said she's not troubled by the research.

She said the idea of successfully modifying babies by inserting genes remains a technically daunting challenge. "We're not even close to having that technology in hand to be able to do it right," she said, and it would be ethically unacceptable to try it when it's unsafe.

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Star stumps astronomers

Astronomers are baffled after finding an exotic type of star called a pulsar apparently locked in an elongated orbit around a star much like the sun -- an arrangement defying what had been known about such objects.

The rapidly spinning pulsar -- an extraordinarily dense object created when a massive star exploded as a supernova -- is called J1903+0327 and is located about 21,000 light years from Earth, the astronomers said.

A light year is about 6 trillion miles, the distance light travels in a year.

"The big question is -- how in the heck did this thing form, because it doesn't follow our standard models of how these things form…If you were to ask any astronomer if we would have found a system like this, they would have said no. So this is a very big surprise” astronomer Scott Ransom of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Virginia.

This object is known as a millisecond pulsar because of its speedy whirl -- it spins on its axis 465 times per second.

Until now, all of the ones found orbiting with another star have been doing so with a white dwarf, another type of dying star. In each case, they shared a perfectly circular orbit. But this one has a very elongated orbit around a star similar in size and composition to our sun.

"What we have found is a millisecond pulsar that is in the wrong kind of orbit around what appears to be the wrong kind of star," astronomer David Champion of the Australia Telescope National Facility said in a statement. "Now we have to figure out how this strange system was produced."

It was detected using a radio telescope in Puerto Rico.

**Watchman helper comment** By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, And all the host of them by the breath of His mouth.

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Mercury, Mars can destroy Earth

No one knows exactly how life on Earth will end.

But scientists claim that a collision with Mercury or Mars could destroy our planet long before the Sun bakes it to a crisp in five billion years` time.

Two separate studies suggest that the solar system's planets will continue to orbit the Sun stably for at least 40 million years.

But after that, there's a chance that Mercury's orbit will get out of whack in the next five billion years.

This would tend to destabilize the whole inner solar system and could lead to a catastrophic collision between Earth and either Mercury or Mars, wiping out any life still present at that time, the studies claim.

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Web pages have 'come alive and started breeding'

Living web sites that grow, develop and evolve to suit the taste of the people that read them are now finding their way on to the internet.

For two decades, computer scientists have played around with evolutionary software that can gradually evolve and mutate to carry out a task efficiently, or hone the design of a wing, robot or whatever, without the need for a programmer to get involved.

Now these techniques are being used to allow web sites to keep themselves up to date and to adapt to the latest fads and fashion, reports New Scientist.

Not only are they quicker to evolve than possible with human intervention, they offer the chance to come up with new ways to organise material in the web that work best for users.

Matthew Hockenberry and Ernesto Arroyo of Creative Synthesis, a non-profit organisation in Cambridge, Massachusetts, have created evolutionary software that alters colours, fonts and hyperlinks of pages in response to what seems to grab the attention of the people who click on the site.

To start, he used mouse-tracking software developed by Arroyo while at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on 24 people who were asked to use a basic web site template for a blog.

Once the blog went live, control of the design was out of their hands. The software treated each feature as a “gene” that was randomly changed as a page was refreshed.

After evaluating what seemed to work, it killed the genes associated with lower scoring features – say the link in an Arial font that was being ignored - and replaced them with those from higher scoring ones say, Helvetica

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Earth's axis displacement to result in monstrous global changes

As the core nears the mantle of Earth, the number of earthquakes, tsunamis and volcano eruptions increases

The core of our planet is directly connected with the Earth's magnetic field.

Scientists noticed back in the 17th century that the field was constantly changing.

The Earth's magnetic intensity has reduced by almost five percent over the recent hundred of years.

The geomagnetic field is a peculiar screen, which protects the planet from space radiation.

If the screen is removed, the planet will be attacked with a strong radiation current, which will either kill all living beings on Earth or cause various mutations in the biosphere.

There is another danger too. It was noticed in 1829 that the Earth's inner core was displaced by 252 kilometers against the axis towards the Pacific Ocean.

The displacement had increased to 451 kilometers by 1965.

If the core continues moving towards the Earth's surface, the planet will simply turn over itself in space someday.

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'BIG BANG' MACHINE COULD DESTROY THE PLANET, SAYS LAWSUIT

A giant particle accelerator that mimics the effects of the ‘Big Bang’ could destroy all life on Earth by sucking it into a black hole, a lawsuit claims.

Walter Wagner, who runs a botanical garden on Hawaii's Big Island, and Luis Sancho, a Spaniard, have asked for an injunction to prevent the European Center for Nuclear Research, or Cern, starting up the Large Hadron Collider.

The accelerator, which will be the world's most powerful particle smasher, is due to begin hurling protons at each other at its base outside Geneva this summer.

Physicists hope that the device, which has taken 14 years and £4 billion to build, will provide clues to the universe's origins by mimicking its condition a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang.

Although Cern scientists have already ruled out the possibility in a safety review, Mr. Wagner and Mr. Sancho say there is at least a small chance of total annihilation of the planet and maybe the universe.

They claim Cern has under-played the chances that the collider could produce a tiny black hole or a particle called a ‘killer strangelet’ that would turn the Earth into a shrunken lump of ‘strange matter’

Their lawsuit, filed in the Federal District Court in Honolulu, seeks a temporary restraining order banning Cern from finishing the accelerator until it has produced a safety report and an environmental assessment…

Cern is not bound by an American court's jurisdiction, but Mr. Wagner said a restraining order on Fermilab and the Energy Department, which helped to supply the accelerator's crucial super-conduction magnets, would be enough to stop the program.

A spokesman for Cern said the lawsuit's claims were ‘complete nonsense’. ‘Much higher energy collisions than those at the LHC occur in nature, because cosmic ray particles zip around our galaxy at close to the speed of light,’ he said.

‘The moon has undergone such collisions for five billion years without being devoured by a ravenous black hole or killer strangelet.’…

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104 products on shelves already contain toxic 'grey goo' by stealth, say Friends of the Earth

Some skin creams use nano particles but many are now concerned about the use of the technology in foods

Potentially toxic chemicals are being incorporated into food, packaging, health supplements and other products by stealth, it is claimed.

Manufacturers boast that nanoparticles can deliver drugs or vitamins more effectively, kill harmful bugs in food or create self-cleaning windows.

But scientists, consumer groups and green campaigners fear the technology is being introduced into the diet, body and environment without proper safety checks.

Nanoparticles are 80,000 times thinner than a human hair - so small they can cross membranes protecting the brain or a baby in the womb.

Critics say it is not known how such tiny particles will interact with the body and organs in the long term, whether they are toxic or how long they will persist in the body.

Doom-mongers have warned that nanoparticles could mutate and reproduce out of control, consuming all life on earth, a scenario often referred to as "grey goo".

Yesterday a report by Friends of the Earth said current regulations are "ill-equipped" to deal with the unique properties of nanoparticles.

It said: "Despite concerns about the toxicity risks of nanomaterials, consumers are unknowingly ingesting them because regulators are struggling to keep pace with their rapidly expanding use."

The study found at least 104 food and agricultural products available in Europe, including the UK, which use nanotech particles or technology.

This includes some nutritional supplements under the Solgar brand, cling wrap and containers, antibacterial kitchenware, processed meats, chocolate drinks, baby food and chemicals used in agriculture.

Friends of the Earth's food and farming spokesman, Helen Holder, said: "Europeans should not be exposed to potentially toxic materials in their food and food packaging until proper regulations are in place to ensure their safety.

"In the absence of proper safety regulations or mandatory labelling, consumers are being left in the dark about the products they consume and are unknowingly putting their health and the environment at risk."

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Futurist: Computer power will match the intelligence of human beings by 2030

Artificial intelligence portrayed in Hollywood movies like ‘The Terminator’ and ‘Blade Runner’ could be a reality in the next two decades.

A leading scientific “futurologist” has predicted that computer power will match the intelligence of human beings by 2030 because of the accelerating speed at which technology is advancing worldwide, ‘The Independent’ reported today.

According to computer guru Dr Ray Kurzweil, there will be 32 times more technical progress during the next half century than there was in the entire 20th century, and one of the outcomes is that artificial intelligence could be on a par with human intellect in the next 20 years.

He said that machines will rapidly overtake humans in their intellectual abilities and will soon be able to solve some of the most intractable problems of the 21st century.

Computers have so far been based on two-dimensional chips made from silicon, but there are developments already well advanced to make three-dimensional chips with vastly improved performances, and even to construct them out of biological molecules.

Three-dimensional, molecular computing will provide the hardware for human-level ‘strong artificial intelligence’ by the 2020s.

The more important software insights will be gained in part from the reverse engineering of the human brain, a process well under way.

“Already, two dozen regions of the human brain have been modelled and simulated,” the British newspaper quoted Dr Kurzweil as saying.

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SCIENTISTS CREATE THREE PARENT EMBRYOS

British scientists have created human embryos with three parents in a development they hope could lead to effective treatments for a range of serious hereditary diseases within five years.

Researchers from Newcastle University, in northern England, presented their findings at a medical conference at the weekend, a university spokeswoman said on Tuesday.

The IVF, or test-tube, embryos were created using DNA from one man and two women.

The idea is to prevent women with faults in their mitochondrial DNA passing diseases on to their children. Around one in 5,000 children suffer from mitochondrial diseases, which can include fatal liver, heart and brain disorders, deafness, muscular problems and forms of epilepsy.

If all goes well, researchers believe they may be able to start offering the technique as a treatment in three to five years.

Mitochondria are tiny power packs inside cells that provide their energy. Faulty genetics can mean mitochondria do not completely burn food and oxygen, leading to the build-up of poisons responsible for more than 40 different diseases

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PLAYING GOD

Who wants to live for ever?

A scientific breakthrough could mean humans live for hundreds of years

By tweaking our DNA, we could soon survive for hundreds of years – if we want to. Steve Connor reports on a breakthrough that has the science world divided

A genetically engineered organism that lives 10 times longer than normal has been created by scientists in California. It is the greatest extension of longevity yet achieved by researchers investigating the scientific nature of ageing.

If this work could ever be translated into humans, it would mean that we might one day see people living for 800 years. But is this ever going to be a realistic possibility?

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Big Step Toward Human Clone Farms

LOS ANGELES - There is news out of California, which, if proven to be true, shows that one more moral line in the sand has been crossed.

Dr. Samuel Wood of Stemagen Corp. in La Jolla, California claims to have cloned himself.

“it was an amazing experience to look at that blastocyst and realize that it came from one

of my cells. It’s a bit like looking at yourself from a long time ago” he said.

Dorinda C. Bordlee, BDF senior counsel, added that this announcement, “puts young women’s reproductive health at risk because it will increase the demand for labs to treat women as egg farms by paying them to undergo dangerous hormone treatments so that the lab can harvest 10-20

human eggs per cycle for their cloning experiments.”

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US FIRM SAYS IT USED CLONING TO CREATE HUMAN EMBRYOS

Scientists at a U.S.-based private research firm say they have developed five human embryos using cloning technology.

Researchers from the California-based company Stemagen announced their findings Thursday in the journal Stem Cells. The scientists say they took the skin cells from two adult males and implanted the nuclei of those cells in human egg cells.

The scientists say they determined through genetic testing that at least three of the embryos were true clones. They say the genetic material in the other two embryos did not develop enough to draw conclusive tests.

Other scientists have greeted the news cautiously. South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk claimed in 2004 that he had used cloning technology to make human embryos, but he was later found to have faked parts of his research.

Human embryos are a source of stem cells that can be used to develop a number of different kinds of tissues. Doctors hope they could be used to treat diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.

But opponents to the research, including President Bush, argue that destroying an embryo is tantamount to taking a human life

***WATCHMAN... IT TAKING A HUMAN LIFE -- I thought it was ILLEGAL in the USA???...

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SCIENTISTS REVIVE DEAD HEART

Researchers have brought a dead animal heart back to life in the lab by repopulating it with healthy cells, a feat they believe may someday allow them to grow new hearts and other organs for people desperate for transplants.

In a paper published online yesterday in Nature Medicine, researchers at the University of Minnesota describe the process of revitalizing the heart of a euthanized lab rat, which begins with washing out the interior cells to leave just the outer shell of the organ.

The scientists then injected the empty sac with heart cells from newborn rats. Within days, the cells had multiplied to flesh out the heart, which began beating on its own.

‘We've taken organs from cadavers, removed all the cells, put cells back in and been able to reanimate what was previously a dead organ,’ said molecular biologist Doris Taylor, director of the Center for Cardiovascular Repair at the University of Minnesota.

‘What that means, we hope, is that one day if you need a new organ, we'll be able to take your cells, transplant them into this framework or scaffold and build you an organ that works for you,’ she said.

‘We're not there yet, but we hope this opens a new door.’

Taylor's team has created these ‘bioartificial’ organs with hearts from dozens of rats and close to a dozen pigs, using a special detergent to destroy and clear out the dead cells, while leaving the outer structure intact.

What surprised and delighted the researchers was what happened once they injected the baby rat cells into the empty sac of the heart.

‘The cells began to reorganize in the wall of that heart,’ she said. ‘The ones that were going to make blood vessels moved to the spot where the blood vessels had been and relined the blood vessels, and the ones that were going to make muscle lined up in the wall and started to make new muscle.

‘And what it says is a couple of things. It says that this scaffold has a lot more information than we thought and that the cells know how to respond to that in some way.’

Co-investigator Dr. Harald Ott, a former research associate at the Minnesota cardiovascular repair center, who is now at Massachusetts General Hospital, said the research team used ‘nature's own building blocks to build a new organ.

‘When we saw the first contractions, we were speechless.’

The researchers believe new hearts could be built for people waiting for a transplant, either using the shell of a human cadaver heart or pig heart injected with the person's own stem cells. Their hope is that those stem cells would also grow to replace the outer sac, thereby preventing rejection by the body

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New Risk to Earth Found in Supernova Explosions

An explosive star within our galaxy is showing signs of an impending eruption, at least in a cosmic time frame, and has for quite some time. From 1838 to 1858, the star called Eta Carinae brightened to rival the light of Sirius, the brightest star in the sky, and then faded to a dim

star. Since 1940 it has been brightening again, and scientists think Eta Carinae will detonate in 10,000 to 20,000 years.

Fortunately, Eta Carinae is far away, at least 7,500 light-years from Earth. If it explodes, most of its energy will be scattered or absorbed in the vast emptiness of space. It also happens to be tilted about 45 degrees from the line of sight to Earth, so any type of gamma-ray burst, a high-energy outburst expected with this star's eventual eruption, would miss the Earth. Cosmic rays would be diffused by magnetic fields, and most of the damaging light would not affect life on Earth.

In general, threats to life on Earth from supernovae are extremely small, for all except the nearest explosions — those 30 light-years away or closer.

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Alert over nanotechnology Frankenfoods

Some skin creams use nano particles but many are now concerned about the use of the technology in foods.

A breed of Frankenfood is being introduced into human diet and cosmetics with potentially disastrous consequences, experts say.

Academics, consumer groups and Government officials are warning that the arrival of nanotechnology threatens dangerous changes to the body and the environment.

The particles it uses are so small - 80,000 times thinner than a human hair - that they can pass through membranes protecting the brain or babies in the womb.

Nano health supplements, such as antioxidants, are already on the market while the first of hundreds of new foods are expected to arrive in the next 12 months.

However, the products are being introdeduced without any regulation or independent assessment to ensure they are safe - mirroring the controversy over the launch of GM foods ten years ago.

Some critics have talked of the threat of the creation of a "grey goo" of tiny particles with hidden harmful properties.

Prince Charles has said it would be "surprising" if the technology did not "offer similar upsets" to thalidomide - the morning sickness drug that caused children to be born with deformed limbs.

Professor Vicki Stone, Professor of Toxicology at Napier University in Edinburgh, is concerned about unforeseen side effects.

"We know very little about the ability of nanoparticles to move around the body, to accumulate or to be excreted, or their potential to cause toxic effects in organs," she said.

However, nanotech advocates have remarkable claims for the technology. For example, foods are in development that are said to stave off the aging process.

On a more trivial level, they suggest it would be possible to create a fizzy drink that changes flavour according to the number of times the can is shaken.

One of the first group of nanoparticles being utilized are fullerenes - tiny hollow carbon balls and tubes.

They are very heat resistant, strong and conduct electricity.

The football-shaped C60 fullerene is being used in some anti-ageing products.

The creams are said to reduce fine lines and firm the skin.

C60 has some antioxidant properties in that it kills the rogue chemicals which damage cells.

***However, a high dose can itself damage cells.

Some nano particles are known to mimic the harmful effects of asbestos on the lungs.

***Consequently, they have the potential to trigger lung cancer if inhaled.

***WATCHMAN... Does this at least PARTIALLY explain the increase of CANCER IN WOMEN who use these creams more than men???...

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Seeds of Destruction, The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation

Today, we're all lab rats in an uncontrolled, unregulated mass human experiment the results of which are unknown.

Once GM seeds are introduced to an area, the genie is out of the bottle for keeps.

In 2003, Jeffrey Smith's "Seeds of Deception" was published. It exposed the dangers of untested and unregulated genetically engineered foods most people eat every day with no knowledge of the potential health risks.

Efforts to inform the public have been quashed, reliable science has been buried, and consider what happened to two distinguished scientists.

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Chance of Asteroid Hit on Mars Increases

The chance of a football field-sized asteroid plowing into Mars next month has been increased to 4 percent, scientists said Friday after analyzing archival data. Though still a long shot, some researchers are hoping for a cosmic smash.

There is a 1 in 75 chance that an asteroid will slam into Mars on Jan. 30, NASA said. "I think it'll be cool," said Don Yeomans, who heads the Near-Earth Object Program at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

"Usually when an asteroid is headed toward Earth, I'm not rooting for an impact." The space rock, known as the nondescript 2007 WD5, was discovered in late November by the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona.

Based on the latest information available, scientists said last week there was a 1-in-75 chance the asteroid could hit Mars on Jan. 30.

The odds were increased to 1-in-25 this week after a Ph.D. student pored through the archives and plotted the asteroid's motions before its official discovery.

The new information allowed scientists to improve their calculations of the asteroid's orbit and flight path. Even when the odds were set at 1-in-75 last week, scientists appeared to be shocked. "These odds are extremely unusual.

We frequently work with really long odds when we track ... threatening asteroids," said Steve Chesley, an astronomer with the Near Earth Object Program at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Scientists will continue to monitor the asteroid to better predict the possibility of a Martian impact. Yeomans said he expects the odds to decrease with new observations gathered early next year.

The likelihood of an asteroid hit usually "peaks before plummeting to zero with additional data," he said.

The asteroid poses no threat to Earth and is closing in on the Red Planet at 27,900 mph.

Should a collision occur, it would likely blast a half-mile-wide crater north of where the rover Opportunity has been exploring since 2004.

The impact could release energy similar to the 1908 Tunguska object that exploded over remote central Siberia and wiped out 60 million trees.

In 1994, fragments of the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 smacked into Jupiter, creating a series of overlapping fireballs in space.

Astronomers have yet to witness an asteroid impact with another planet.

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Full Abortions Shown On Spanish Television

For what is probably the first time in history, a television network in Spain has shown an abortion on national television.

The video, shot during a hidden-camera exposé on Spain's abortion industry, shows a nurse injecting deadly poison into the fetus through the vagina of a pregnant woman, who then expels her dead child, about five months old.

The doctor immediately covers the body. "The baby is born dead. His cradle: a trash can," says the commentator in voice-over on the tape.

An abortion of the baby of a second woman is also shown. After showing the second abortion, the commentator remarks. "As soon as the baby is born, the doctor must cover it up. No one looks at it. No one examines it."

Later, the undercover reporter examines one of the dead children. "Hands, feet, a face. The cadaver of a human being," the commentator notes.

The doctor, a woman, remarks that the baby is 21 weeks old, but says she "never" looks at the bodies of the fetuses. "Never?" asks the undercover reporter, who is posing as a doctor looking for work at the clinic. "Never," the woman repeats "Never, never, never again!"

When asked why, the doctor says "Because I don't like it." "Of course, you are a mother, I assume, right?" the reporter asks. No answer is given.

All of the patients preparing for abortions were over five months pregnant, "a period in which the fetus is completely formed and in possession of all of its senses," notes the voice-over.

One of the patients is only 15 years old. The doctor explicitly acknowledges in the video that many of the patients have no valid reason for their abortions.

However, she assures the reporter that the clinic has a psychiatrist who will automatically sign the necessary forms to authorize it because of "psychological" need as required under Spanish law.

The report, "Asi se aborta en España" (This is How Abortions are Done in Spain) was made by Intereconomia TV, a national network in Spain, in which the reporter posed as a doctor seeking a job doing abortions at El Bosque.

As soon as he tells the receptionist why he's there, she rushes him in to see the owner. The clinic is in desperate need of personnel, explains the commentator.

In the video, the owner explains that they used to have the nurses do the abortions, although the law will no longer allow this.

He blithely describes the procedure as it was done by nurses, telling the undercover reporter (who is posing as a job applicant) that it is only necessary to "wait until the woman expels it (the fetus), and to take it out by its rear end.

If the placenta doesn't come out they call me." He assures the undercover reporter that if if that happens "you grab the pincers...and 'pin pin pin' and that's it," waving his hands around with a casual look on his face.

Following the broadcast of the report, an anonymous source brought the remains of a twenty-two week old fetus chopped into several large pieces to the offices of Inteconomia.

Upon receiving the remains, one station employee told the Spanish media that they thought the remains were a "joke". "We thought it was made of plastic.

"The workers at Intereconomia, shocked at what they were seeing, tried to hide it from a fellow employee who had recently lost a child.

They filmed the remains, which have been displayed widely in the Spanish media. They then called the courthouse to ask what they should do with them. They were told to call the police.

Horcajo stated that he was told by police that "on many occasions, an abortion practice is to cut up the child inside of the mother so he can come out more easily."

Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue, noted the importance of the event. "I believe that if we have a straight up debate on abortion, on exactly what abortion is, exactly what it does to the baby, the detrimental effects on the mother, the pro-life movement wins hands down one hundred percent of the time," he told.

"The debate in Europe is phenomenally important. It's pivotal in the crusade to end abortion worldwide, and I would hope that this would begin to spill over into American politics."

***Asked why the American media has never shown such images to the public, Newman said that "there is an active coverup within the media to deny the actual truth about what goes on during an abortion," attributing the situation to liberal, pro-abortion bias.

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