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House Approves $982B Budget to Fund US Government

The U.S. House has approved a continuing resolution to fund the government for the rest of the fiscal year and avoid a government shutdown.

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Measuring the Universe More Accurately Than Ever Before

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Two-thirds of victims of left-over munitions in Mali are children

UNICEF is warning of a rising threat to communities in Central and Northern Mali from ammunition and explosive devices. Since April 2012, 60 victims of explosive remnants of war have been reported, with children making up...

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Stressed proteins can cause blood clots for hours: Physicists probe stress-induced changes in clot-forming protein

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Rice University researchers in the lab of Ching-Hwa Kiang use the bobbing needle from an atomic force microsco...

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