The planet, which orbits a sun-like star about 150 light-years away in the constellation Pegasus, is not habitable but it has the same chemistry that, if found around a rocky planet in the future, could indicate a world that might support life or the presence of life.
It's a technological breakthrough that will worry cheating partners - secret text messages can now be retrieved from mobile phones five years after they were deleted.
The White House says President Barack Obama has declared swine flu a "national emergency", as the United States reels from millions of cases of infection and over 1000 deaths.
The emergency declaration, signed by the president late on Friday, enhances the ability of medical treatment facilities to handle a spike in influenza A(H1N1) patients by allowing them to implement emergency plans thanks to federal requirement waivers.
President Barack Obama declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency, giving his health chief the power to let hospitals move emergency rooms offsite to speed treatment and protect noninfected patients.
Research was carried out in the 1950s and 1960s into psychedelics. In some places they were even used as a treatment for anxiety, depression and addiction. But a backlash against LSD - owing to concerns that the powerful hallucinogen was becoming widespread as a recreational drug, and fear that excessive use could trigger mental health conditions such as schizophrenia - led to prohibition of research in the 1970s.
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A major earthquake vibrated deep in Indonesia's Banda Sea on Saturday night, but the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center predicted the quake would not be destructive.
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Daily Motivator
Chosen feelings
The situation does not create the feeling. You create whatever feeling you wish to feel in each particular situation.
Why are some people happy and other people sad in the same circumstance? Because that is how they have chosen to be.
When you respond the same way often enough it becomes a habit that you follow without even thinking. In this way your feelings come to seem automatic, even though they never have to be.
The way you feel was at some point a conscious choice. And you can choose to change, or let go of, or expand what you feel, or to create an entirely new feeling.
The connection between the moment and the feeling is made by you. Always, you can feel the feelings that serve you best, the ones that pull you toward true and magnificent fulfillment.
Your feelings profoundly influence the life you experience, and those feelings are yours to choose in any moment. Choose the ones that give real power to the purpose that lives within you.
The National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) announced Friday the flu has now become a pandemic following a survey of general practitioners in the Netherlands. General practitioners diagnosed the flu in 55 out of 100,000 people for two consecutive weeks, the survey said.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), a disease reaches pandemic status when it meets three conditions: emergence of a disease new to a population; agents infect humans, causing serious illness; and agents spread easily and sustainably among humans.
While most people recover from swine flu without needing medical treatment, the virus strikes children particularly hard.
GlaxoSmithKline's Pandemrix vaccine contains an adjuvant, a chemical compound that stretches a vaccine's active ingredient and increases the human body's immune response. While European flu vaccines commonly use adjuvants, there is limited data on how safe they are in groups including children and pregnant women.
"Chronic pain is now regarded as a disease in its own right," said Prof Cousins, who is director of the Pain Management Research Institute at Sydney's Royal North Shore Hospital.
What they DO to get you off smoking?!
"This study further strengthens the case for stepping up the fight against tobacco at all levels," said ASH chief executive Anne Jones.
"This should include an immediate tax increase and making all workplaces comprehensively smokefree in line with our commitment to the international anti-tobacco treaty."
AH, the cat is out of the smoking area.
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The ultimate goal is of course our return to the state of divinity from which we've emerged.
The same tenants (with subtle variations) can be found in other schools such as Rosicrucianism, Freemasonry and other orders teachings the Mysteries.
Unfortunately for you, squalene is not just present in the blood after you've received the flu shot. Squalene is also built-in into various nervous tissues across your body, including brain. So when your immune system attacks squalene it will also start attacking those bodily structures that have squalene incorporated in them as building blocks. That is, your own immune system becomes your own enemy.
As expected, the Norwegian Health authorities on Friday announced that they advice all Norwegians to be vaccinated against the swine flu. So far, ten persons are known to have died from the flu in Norway.
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High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for Northern Lights. A sharp gust of solar wind hit Earth on Oct. 21st, and the Arctic Circle is still ringing with geomagnetic activity. "[We had a] stunning display of active auroras last night," reports Thomas Hagen, who sends this picture from Tromsø, Norway:
"The entire sky turned green and stayed green for much of the night," adds Fredrik Broms of Kvaløya, Norway.
The solar wind gust that sparked the display is interesting because it likely originated with a spotless explosion in the Sun's southern hemisphere on Oct. 17th.
The blast hurled a faint coronal mass ejection (CME) toward Earth.
Normally, CMEs reach Earth in only 2 or 3 days, but this one took a leisurely 4 days to cross the Sun-Earth divide.
Why so long?
Since solar minimum began in 2007, solar physicists have noticed that CMEs have been moving in slow motion. They take a long time to get here, and they don't hit very hard when they arrive.
Nevertheless, this one managed to spark some nice auroras.