Cost Drops For Complete Genetic Blueprint

A start-up company called Complete Genomics announced on Monday it is offering people a complete genetic blueprint for around $5,000.

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Report Shows 1 In 4 Mammals Faces Extinction
An international survey showed on Monday that a quarter of the world's mammals are threatened with extinction due to destruction of habitats and hunting....

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Dust Plume off Iceland. Dust storms usually call to mind vast sand seas along the Equator, or dried up lakebeds in Central Asia, but such storms can also occur at much higher latitudes. On September 17, 2008, the MODIS on NA...
Microscope Image of a Martian Soil Surface Sample. This is the closest view of the material underneath NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander. This sample was taken from the top centimeter of the Martian soil, and this image from the lander's Optical Microscope d...
Youthful Wrinkles. During a distant flyby encounter with Enceladus, Cassini imaged the moon's wrinkled leading hemisphere. At the scale visible here, this region of the surface is generally devoid of impact craters, sug...

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In 1893, Chicago hired its first police woman. Her name was Marie Owens. While the city was progressive in its hiring practices, Chicago's female police officers were not allowed to wear uniforms until 1956.

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