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August 19, 2008
Cloned Meat: It's What's for Dinner?
Cloning is usually the stuff of science fiction or Hollywood cinema, but if some in the food industry have their way, cloned animals could be the stuff you eat for dinner.

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Britain's mysterious Stonehenge site served as a burial ground for more than 500 years, probably for a family of ancient rulers, a group of archeologists announced this week.
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On the 18th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope's launch, NASA released new telescope images of galaxies colliding, a process that drives their evolution.
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It took 47 years to develop a polio vaccine, 42 to develop a measles vaccine and 105 for typhoid. So historically speaking, at 24 years in, research on the AIDS vaccine is still young.
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