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The publishers Springer and IEEE are removing more than 120 papers from their subscription services after a French researcher discovered that the works were computer-generated nonsense.

Over the past two years

catalogued computer-generated papers that made it into more than 30 published conference proceedings between 2008 and 2013

Using a video game in which people navigate through a virtual town delivering objects to specific locations, a team of neuroscientists

has discovered how brain cells that encode spatial information form "geotags" for specific memories and are activated immediately before those memories are recalled.

work shows how spatial information is incorporated into memories and why remembering an experience can quickly bring to mind other events that happened in the same place

In March 2011, a devastating tsunami struck Japan's Tohoku region

Now, researchers have uncovered the cause of this tsunami, shedding light on what displaced the seafloor off the northeastern coast of Japan

Learning more about the 2011 tsunami and its causes is an important step for monitoring future events.

Scientists

have identified a set of compounds that may be used to treat multiple sclerosis (MS) in a new way

existing MS therapies

NASA-funded researchers have spotted the first signs of an "exomoon," and though they say it's impossible to confirm its presence

The discovery was made by watching a chance encounter of objects in our galaxy, which can be witnessed only once

won't have a chance to observe the exomoon candidate again

First astronauts selected

In 1959, NASA announced the selection of America's first seven astronauts for project Mercury. Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Donald Slayton were chosen from 110 applicants. Their training program at Langley, which ranged from a graduate-level course in introductory space science to simulator training and scuba-diving. Project Mercury, NASA's first high profile program, was an effort to learn if humans could survive in space. NASA required astronaut candidates to be male, not over 40 years old, not more than 5' 11" height and in excellent physical condition. On 5 May 1961, Shepard became the first American in space

The mission's investigations at the Kimberley are planned as the most extensive since Curiosity spent the first half of 2013 in an area called Yellowknife Bay

At the Kimberley

researchers plan to use Curiosity's science instruments to learn more about habitable past conditions and environmental changes.

 First woman to fly across English Channel

In 1912, American aviator Harriet Quimby became the first female pilot to fly across the English Channel. She left England in a 50-hp monoplane lent to her by Louis Blériot. She headed for France in a plane she had never flown before and a compass she had just learned how to use. Despite poor visibility and fog, Quimby landed 59 minutes later near Hardelot, France. Upon landing, she was greeted by the local residents, but the Titanic sinking just days earlier, limited reporting of Quimby's achievement in the world press. She died the same year, on 1 Jul 1912, when she lost control of her plane at a flying exhibition near Quincy, Mass. She was the first American woman to become a licensed pilot, but her career as a pilot lasted a mere 11 months.

The team operating NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is telling the rover to use several tools this weekend to inspect a sandstone slab being evaluated as a possible drilling target

If this target meets criteria set by engineers and scientists, it could become the mission's third drilled rock, and the first that is not mudstone

The planned inspection, designed to aid a decision on whether to drill

In 2004, the discovery of what was believed to be the world's oldest seat of learning, the Library of Alexandria, was announced by Zahi Hawass, president of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities during a conference at the University of California. A Polish-Egyptian team had uncovered 13 lecture halls featuring an elevated podium for the lecturer. Such a complex of lecture halls had never before been found on any Mediterranean Greco-Roman site. Alexandria may be regarded as the birthplace of western science, where Euclid discovered the rules of geometry, Eratosthenes measured the diameter of the Earth and Ptolemy wrote the Almagest, the most influential scientific book about the nature of the Universe for 1,500 years

Oldest university unearthed

In 1936, the Dvorak typewriter keyboard was patented in the U.S. by Dvorak and Dealey (Patent No. 2,040,248). The efficiency experts August Dvorak (a cousin of the composer) and William Dealey studied the typewriter to determine that they could arrange the keys in a new way which would speed up the operators of the typewriter. They designed a keyboard to maximize efficiency by placing common letters on the home row, and make the stronger fingers of the hands do most of the work. By contrast, the original QWERTY layout was designed for the earlier, less efficient typewriters. Previously, speed would result in two type bars hitting each other in their travel, so the original keyboard was laid out to reduce collisions

The first example of living human cartilage grown on a laboratory chip has been created by scientists

The researchers ultimately aim to use their innovative 3-D printing approach to create replacement cartilage

Osteoarthritis is marked by a gradual disintegration of cartilage, a flexible tissue that provides padding where bones come together in a joint

The World Cup opening ceremony

June 12

a standout for athletes and their fans but yet another eye-opener may make the Sao Paulo stadium opener long remembered globally

This week, an international team of researchers

announced the discovery of an exoplanet

155 light years

The child known as the 'Mississippi baby' -- an infant seemingly cured of HIV that was reported as a case study of a prolonged remission of HIV infection

now has detectable levels of HIV after more than two years of not taking antiretroviral therapy without evidence of virus

an infant seemingly cured of HIV that was reported as a case study of a prolonged remission of HIV infection

astronomers analyzed all four years of Kepler data in search of Earth-size planets in the habitable zones of sun-like stars

Based on this analysis, they estimate that 22 percent of stars like the sun have potentially habitable Earth-size planets, though not all may be rocky or have liquid water

NASA's Kepler spacecraft

A new study

has developed a new drug that can manipulate the body's natural signalling and energy systems, allowing the body to attack and shut down cancerous cells.

ZL105,

Technical Progress The Learning Curve

reliminary evaluation of the spacecraft and its systems so as to better understand it.

Most of the best information that we have been able to find has been from the people who worked on the project in the 1980's when the spacecraft was fully operational