US Navy research throws up vomit ray
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See sick? The US Navy is funding research into a "Star Trek phaser set on 'stun'".â¦
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From afar, the ghostly warships recall a fierce phalanx ready for battle. A closer look, though, shows the rust and rot of ships unfit for duty or even dismantling, a quandary that is costing taxpayers millions of dollars and could cause environmental misery that will cost millions more.
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Scientists have taken a step closer to  creating a vaccine against a virus that causes the most common  form of diarrhea and vomiting in children.
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For the past couple of years, a bug called a norovirus has torpedoed the fun for many an ocean-cruise passenger. Spreading rapidly throughout a ship, the virus causes extreme
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The Food and Drug Administration says a rocket fuel component contaminates nearly 94 percent of the milk and lettuce samples surveyed. The compound is suspected of having nasty effects in humans. By Amit Asaravala.
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Spurred by what appear to be unusual radiation readings offshore, the U.S. government is sending a team of 20 scientists to try to find a hydrogen bomb lost off the Georgia coast in 1958.
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Dr. Denise Galloway has the worst job in science. She just doesnât know it. âI love what I do,â said Galloway, an anal wart researcher at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle.
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By Joe BaumanThe Divine Strake nonnuclear explosion at the Nevada Test Site &quot;would disperse large amounts of radioactive particles into the atmosphere,&quot; says a noted pathologist. Dr. Thomas M.
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State and federal health authorities  were trying on Wednesday to determine the cause of an outbreak  that has sickened about 1,000 people who visited an Ohio island  getaway in Lake Erie.
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By Jon W. Glass, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Dec. 18--NEWPORT NEWS -- The search for a weapon that could knock down an incoming cruise missile drew the Navy. A possible cure for adult acne attracted a Harvard dermatologist.
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Patients undergoing a full-body computed tomography (CT) scan are exposed to a radiation dose equivalent to that received by some survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs, say US researchers.
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So goes the familiar holiday tune. Unfortunately, this holiday season, scientists are heralding bad news for birds. New research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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Microbes that cause salmonella came back from spaceflight even more virulent and dangerous in an experiment aboard the US space shuttle Atlantis, according to a study published on Monday.
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Scientists have taken a step closer to creating a vaccine against a virus that causes the most common form of diarrhea and vomiting in children.
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The military has been working for years on a pain ray that heats up the skin, sending crowds running.  Wired News' Sharon Weinberger decides to find out what the screams are all about -- and gets zapped herself.
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The Navy has a monkey on its back. Since at least 1982, U.S. Navy ships plying the Persian Gulf have been taunted by mysterious radio transmissions that are alternately obscene, nonsensical, racist, infantile, misogynistic and menacing. Sometimes they threatened U.S. ships; at other times they...
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A Navy doctor who served as a sponsor for U.S. Naval Academy midshipmen "violated the trust" of the students by using surveillance equipment installed in an air purifier at his Annapolis home to make "secret sex tapes" of them, a Navy prosecutor said yesterday at the start of the doctor's...