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The Free Speech Coalition announced Sunday night that an adult actor has contracted HIV, prompting Los Angeles' adult film industry to shut down. The industry uses a database that lists STD statuses of all performers.

A Global Exploration Roadmap that will introduce a 25-year scenario for visits beyond Earth orbit is being drawn up by Nasa and their counterparts around the world. The destination?

The porn industry in Los Angeles, CA. came to a screeching halt Saturday, after an adult entertainer tested positive for HIV. LA officials ordered an immediate shutdown of the multi-billion-dollar adult entertainment industry by Monday, forcing a number porn sets across the San Fernando Valley to close losing a substantial amount of revenue.

The cause for last week's Soyuz rocket failure that crashed Russia's Progress 44 supply ship heading to the International Space Station has been identified, said Russian news reports.

An unprecedented evacuation of the International Space Station could occur if Russian spacecraft do not return by November, a senior NASA official said. There is a greater risk of losing the ISS when it's unmanned than if it were manned, ISS program manager Michael Suffredini said in a conference call.

Katia could become a major hurricane, forecasters say. The tropical storm is strengthening.

Researchers found that those who did aerobics for eight months lost about 2.5 square inches of belly fat, as measured on a CT scan. That amount is about 1.5 times as much as people who did a combination of aerobic exercise and weight lifting. Furthermore, it is also about 20 times as much as those who only did weight lifting.

Astrophysicists at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Zurich have created a detailed simulation of a Milky Way-like galaxy.

A malfunctioning gas generator in the Soyuz carrier rocket's third stage engine has been identified by members of the emergency commission as the reason a supply ship didn't make it to the International Space Station, Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) spokesman Alexei Kuznetsov told the Itar-Tass on Monday.

New York City-based Pfizer Inc. gained FDA approval for their drug Xalkori, the first new medicine in several years for deadly, advanced lung cancer, according to new research.

A study conducted by Duke University shows that for those looking to lose belly fat, aerobic exercise is more effective than weight training.

New research discovered that older men who experience low levels of slow wave sleep and significantly more likely to develop high blood pressure.

Following the failure of the Russian Soyuz rocket last week, if the astronauts, currently living in the International Space Station, will have to abandon ship even temporarily, the $100 billion orbiting research facility would be at great risk of being lost.

A new study published in the journal Nature Neuroscience suggests that humans are hardwired to respond to animals.

An HIV scare shut down porn sets across the San Fernando Valley today after producers learned that a performer tested positive. Critics say the news will likely rekindle debate about health and safety within adult entertainment industry.

Public health officials are warning that bird flu once again poses a growing threat, as the virus spreads across parts of Asia and has developed a dangerous new mutation.

NASA has developed a suitcase-sized fission nuclear reactor capable of generating 40-kilowatt electricity in space. Designed to work on the fission nuclear technology, this nuclear reactor will prove to be a reliable power source not only on Earth, but on the moon and the Martian surface claim the scientists.

The United Nations on Monday urged greater preparedness and surveillance against a possible resurgence of bird flu, warning that the new mutant virus H5N1 - 2.3.2.1 might affect Asia the most.

Regular consumption of chocolate may slash the risk of developing heart disease by a third, according to a research published in the British Medical Journal and presented at the European Society of Cardiology's conference in Paris Monday.

The state of Alaska will appeal a federal ruling which continues to list the polar bear as a threatened species. In a notice filed on Aug. 26, the state argued that polar bears are not a threatened species as they have successfully survived past climate changes.

A camera in Cartersville, Ga., captured a video and photos of the meteor as it brightened up the Atlanta skies.

Following the failure of an unmanned Russian Soyuz rocket last week, the International Space Station might have to be left without a crew if NASA's Russian partners can't find the cause of the malfunction and fix it soon.

A compact, suitcase-size nuclear power plant could one day generate electricity for manned or unmanned bases on the moon, Mars, or other planets, a U.S. research team says.

Former presidential candidate Al Gore compared the struggle against racism in the South to his personal battle with global warming and its skeptics, TG Daily reported. There came a time when people said, 'Hey man, why do you talk that way? That's wrong, I don't go for that, so don't talk that way around me. I just don't believe that,' Gore said in an recent interview.

The groups are calling on all pediatricians and other health professionals to strongly discourage parents from having their children participate in boxing. Instead, the groups ask that children be guided toward alternative sport and recreational activities such as swimming, tennis, basketball and volleyball.

Eating dark chocolate, watching funny movies, and avoiding stressful jobs, are all ingredients in lowering the risk of several heart diseases, according to authors of a new report published in the British Medical Journal on Monday.

NASA's researchers are investigating ways to implement a bioregenerative system in space that would allow astronauts to grow certain plants.

The United Nations warned Monday of a possible resurgence of the bird flu virus, reports the Associated Press.

Russian space vehicles are currently the only means of transporting crews and supplies to the station now that the U.S. space shuttle program has ended. The U.S. space shuttle flew its last mission in July.