'Fab Lab' Igniting Revolution in Kenya NAIROBI, KENYA The University of Nairobis Science and Technology Park is banking on 3-D prototyping to spark a manufacturing revolution in the country. This is the 3D MakerBot printer in action. The machine is a

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By Tony Budny Washington 31 August 2007 The Labor Day holiday in the United States falls annually on the first Monday of September. It is meant to commemorate the hard work and dedication of individuals in the American workforce. Since it became a na

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The world's first lab-grown burger has been cooked and eaten in London. Scientists hope the new technology can be a sustainable way of meeting growing demand for meat and protect the environment. CRI's London correspondent Tu Yun has more. The burger

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By Kent Klein Washington 03 June 2008 Astronauts at the International Space Station have attached a $1 billion Japanese laboratory to the orbiting outpost. During a space walk Tuesday, mission specialists Michael Fossum and Ronald Garan unlocked the

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Diabetes in Lab Mice Reversed with Natural Compound The International Diabetes Federation has released data (this week) that indicates the number of people living with diabetes around the world will likely rise from 366 million to 552 million by 2030

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SouthKoreanLabFocusesonNeglectedDiseases A branch of a French research institute is developing new drugs to combat diseases mainly afflicting developing countries - including so-called neglected diseases, which kill millions of people each year. Thes

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Drug Reverses Alzheimer's in Lab Mice Researchers working with laboratory mice have stopped the progression of a condition found in the brain of Alzheimer's victims. They've even reversed cognitive decline. But whether the discovery can translate to

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US Lab Says Electronic Voting Machines Easy to Hack As the primary election season gains momentum in the United States in early 2012, voters will head to the polls to cast votes for their preferred candidates. About 30 percent of Americans will use e

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Mexico Authorities Free 275 Trapped In Forced Lab Bioparques de Occidente is a tomato sorting and packing company in the municipality of Toliman in the western state of Jalisco. The management finds workers to get the tomatoes ready for export in nea

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A: The doctor sent me over here to have my blood drawn. B: Certainly, please have a seat and roll up your left sleeve. A: What is this test for? B: Well, today your doctor wants us to check your white blood cell count. A: What does that tell him? B:

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: A dog named Abby is back from the dead. Abby, a black lab mix, wandered away from her home in Apollo, Pa., just outside of Pittsburgh, ten years ago. Abby's owner Debra Suierveld and her children looked for their dog but couldn't f

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AILSA CHANG, HOST: A prototype space station, put into orbit by China, will soon be falling back to Earth. It is the size of a city bus. No one knows where parts of it will land although regions of the continental U.S. are in the potential crash zone

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LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: President Trump's travel ban, though lifted for now, threw tens of thousands of people into limbo. Among the groups affected are scientists. NPR's science correspondent Joe Palca has more now on how recent events have cr

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China's first cargo spacecraft Tianzhou-1 successfully docked with the Tiangong-2 space lab for the first time on Saturday. China has taken another step toward its goal of putting a space station into orbit around 2022, by sending its first cargo spa

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The Tiangong-2 space lab, though adopting the structure of Tiangong-1 without too many changes in appearance, has been designed to function much stronger than its predecessor. Zhu Congpeng, chief designer of the lab, says they've focused on a variety

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In the Rocky Mountains of Central Colorado, the forces of nature create a landscape of alpine lakes, high-altitude ponds teeming with life and mountain meadows bursting with wild flowers. It is amidst these beautiful wildflower fields that one scient

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The U.S. state of Florida has 1300 kilometers of beaches, all of which officials fear are at risk from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Our correspondent reports that military and wildlife officials are being deployed across the state, scouring for sign

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Related reading: Chinese scientists on Wednesday announced the first direct evidence linking the Zika virus to microcephaly in mice experiments. Xu Zhiheng with the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in

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