Reuters - A nasal spray made by Allon
Therapeutics Inc significantly improved memory in patients with
mild cognitive impairment — a precursor to Alzheimer’s
disease, researchers reported on Monday.

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SPACE.com - NASA will try again Sunday night to to get some dirt into the Phoenix Mars Lander’s onboard oven, this time using a revised method.

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AP - A sample of icy soil collected by the robotic arm of NASA’s Phoenix Mars lander is apparently stuck in its scoop, foiling efforts to analyze it.

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AFP - Explosions of magnetic energy between Earth and the moon are behind the sparkles and wavy glows of the Northern Lights that color the night sky, NASA has said.

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AP - Scientists have exposed some of the mystery behind the northern lights. On Thursday, NASA released findings that indicate magnetic explosions about one-third of the way to the moon cause the northern lights, or aurora borealis, to burst in spectacular shapes and colors, and dance across the sky.

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AP - The U.S. should revive and expand an aviation safety survey run by NASA to identify problems like lapses in inspections that canceled thousands of flights this past spring, the chairman of a House Science and Technology panel said.

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SPACE.com - A flotilla
of NASA probes has solved the 30-year mystery behind the most colorful aurora
displays on Earth and the explosive magnetic “substorms” that spawn
them.

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Reuters - NASA has began unofficial negotiations
with Japan’s space agency on purchasing units of an unmanned
cargo transfer spacecraft as the successor to its space
shuttles, the Yomiuri newspaper said on Sunday.

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SPACE.com - NASA
scientists planned to instruct the Phoenix Mars Lander to test out its method
for shaving and collecting ice for a second time Friday.

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AP - Money problems will likely force NASA to abandon its ambitious internal goal of having a new moon spaceship ready by 2013, a top space agency official told The Associated Press Wednesday.

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