The Vatican does not often react to science in the news this rapidly, and certainly not to be as positive as it was about a ground-breaking development in the emerging field of synthetic biology.
As science journalists encountered difficulties in obtaining information rapidly about new developments in scientific research, Mico Tatalovic suggested the need for a science news agency in the region to despatch press releases.
The disheartening news about women in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) fields just keeps coming.
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"We have had very detailed mapping of that basin from images, from orbital spectral data, but we have not had high-resolution of its interior structure, " Grail's chief scientist, Prof Maria Zuber, who has been speaking at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) in The Woodlands, Texas, told BBC News.
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He Jingjun, associate professor at Southwest University of Political Science and Law in Chongqing and commentator for The Beijing News, welcomes the execution decision as a "milestone in the protection of Chinese citizens overseas".
There was ample news about discoveries in the science of happiness itself.
The Coffee News Information Service, the communications arm of the Oxfordshire based Coffee Science Information Centre, said in a statement that mothers-to-be should not panic.
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Professor Jim Iley, executive director of science and education at the Royal Society of Chemistry told BBC News that gaps in data meant there was still a "degree of uncertainty" about the impact of the chemicals.
In 2004, two years after it was approved, Schering-Plough (nyse: SGP - news - people ) scientists published a paper in Science arguing that the drug blocks a newly discovered protein that seemed to be involved mostly in absorbing cholesterol out of the intestines.
Reck wrote about the challenges facing metal recycling in a recent edition of Science magazine and spoke to Kitco News about her findings.
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The report generated only a smattering of news stories in a handful of trade press and science-centric blogs.
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The discovery of another moon around Pluto is exciting news for planetary science, but it's also likely causing some anxiety for the team in charge of New Horizons, a spacecraft set to be the first probe ever to visit the dwarf planet.
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