Boy, 6, Saves Sister, 2, From House Fire

Police say a 6-year-old boy rescued his 2-year-old sister from a fire at a Long Island house where three adults later were found dead. Neighbor Jessie Scott says the Central Islip house burned "like a matchbox."
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Judge rules against RealNetworks DVD copy software

(AP) -- A federal judge has barred RealNetworks Inc. from selling a device that allows consumers to copy DVDs to their computer hard drives, pending a full trial.
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Heart transplant record holder dies of cancer

(AP) -- A heart transplant recipient who lived a record 31 years with a single donated organ has died at age 51 of cancer, his heart still going strong, his widow said.
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Rovers rev up for Google's moonshot jackpot

Two years after a $20m competition to send a robot to the moon was announced, we report on the prototypes being tested here on Earth


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Discovery may lead to powerful new therapy for asthma

University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researchers have found that a single enzyme is apparently critical to most allergen-provoked asthma attacks - and that activity of the enzyme, known as aldose reductase, can be significantly reduced by compounds that have already undergone clinical trials as treatments for complications of diabetes.
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Ytterbium gains ground in quest for next-generation atomic clocks

An experimental atomic clock based on ytterbium atoms is about four times more accurate than it was several years ago, giving it a precision comparable to that of the NIST-F1 cesium fountain clock, the nation's civilian time standard, scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology report in Physical Review Letters.
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UCF scientists control living cells with light; advances could enhance stem cells' power

University of Central Florida researchers have shown for the first time that light energy can gently guide and change the orientation of living cells within lab cultures. That ability to optically steer cells could be a major step in harnessing the healing power of stem cells and guiding them to areas of the body that need help.

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