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Malaysia’s prime minister said on Wednesday Muslims should still take up yoga, reversing an outright ban that has drawn widespread protests amid concerns over growing Islamic fundamentalism in the multiracial nation. Malaysia’s National Fatwa Council, comprising Islamic scholars, told Muslims at the weekend to avoid yoga because it uses Hindu prayers that could erode Muslims’ faith.

But the decision drew a sharp rebuke from many Muslims and even Malaysia’s sultans, or hereditary rulers, who said that they should be consulted on any matters involving Islam.

Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi moved to contain the damage, telling the national news agency Bernama that Muslims could carry on doing yoga but minus the chanting.

“I wish to state that a physical regime with no elements of worship can continue, meaning, it is not banned. I believe that Muslims are not easily swayed into polytheism,” he said.

Just before Abdullah spoke, the eldest son of the ruler of the central Negeri Sembilan state took the government to task over the yoya ruling.

“Islam is a progressive religion and the ulama (scholars) should be confident of the followers’ faith rather than micro-managing their way of life,” Tunku Naquiyuddin told a luncheon.

“If I go to a church or a Buddhist temple, is there any fear of me converting? … Where do we draw the line?” the online version of the Star newspaper quoted him as saying.

The yoga fatwa ruling came hot on the heels of another edict against young Muslim women wearing trousers.

Fatwas or religious edicts are not legally binding, but they are highly influential in Malaysia, where Malay-Muslims form just over half of the country’s 27 million people.

The fatwa council has said that by wearing trousers, girls risked becoming sexually active “tomboys.” Gay sex is outlawed in Malaysia.

Malaysia’s sizeable minorities include ethnic Chinese and Indians who practice either Christianity, Buddhism or Hinduism.

The Los Alamos National Laboratory cosmic-ray observatory in New Mexico, US, has seen for the first time two distinct hot spots in space that appear to be bombarding Earth with an excess of cosmic rays.

Cosmic rays are high-energy particles that move through our galaxy from sources far away.

No one knows exactly where cosmic rays come from, but scientists theorize they might originate from supernovae—massive stars that explode— from quasars or perhaps from other exotic, less-understood or yet-to-be-discovered sources within the universe.

Researchers used Los Alamos’ Milagro cosmic-ray observatory to peer into the sky above the northern hemisphere for nearly seven years starting in July 2000.

The observatory is unique in that it monitors the entire sky above the northern hemisphere.

Because of its design and field of view, Milagro was able to record over 200 billion cosmic-ray collisions with the Earth’s atmosphere.

“Our observatory is unique in that we can detect events of low enough energies that we were able to record enough cosmic-ray encounters to see a statistically significant fractional excess coming from two distinct regions of the sky,” Los Alamos researcher Brenda Dingus said.

According to Los Alamos researcher John Pretz, “The source of cosmic rays has been a 100-year-old problem for astrophysicists. With the Milagro observatory, we identified two distinct regions with an excess of cosmic rays. These regions are relatively tiny bumps on the background of cosmic rays, which is why they were missed for so long.”

“This discovery calls into question our understanding of cosmic rays and raises the possibility that an unknown source or magnetic effect near our solar system is responsible for these observations,” he added.

Consequently, traditional wisdom has held that cosmic-ray events appear uniformly throughout the sky.

But because Milagro was able to record so many cosmic-ray events, researchers for the first time were able to see statistical peaks in the number of cosmic-ray events originating from specific regions of the sky near the constellation Orion.

The region with the highest hot spot of cosmic rays is a concentrated bulls eye above and to the right visually of Orion, near the constellation Taurus.

The other hot spot is a comma-shaped region visually occurring near the constellation Gemini.

A cold snap has caused a high number of endangered sea turtles to wash ashore dead on Cape Cod beaches.Thirty Kemp’s Ridley sea turtles — the world’s most endangered sea turtles — have been reported on the beaches since Thursday. Nineteen were dead.

Tony LaCasse, spokesman for the New England Aquarium in Boston, called the mortality rate “way off the charts.”

Sea turtles suffering from hypothermia often wash ashore in November and December. When the animals’ heart rate and body temperature falls, they become immobile. Wind blows them to shore, where they risk freezing to death.

Volunteers walk the beaches to look for stranded turtles. Survivors are brought to the aquarium, where workers try to bring up their body temperature.

Experiments on an animal model of obesity-induced diabetes have shown that lining the upper portion of the small intestine with an impermeable sleeve can help lose weight and restore normal glucose metabolismThe study conducted by researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Weight Center and Gastrointestinal Unit is the first controlled test of a new procedural approach to treating obesity.

Reporting their findings in the journal Obesity, the researchers said that the procedure reproducing several aspects of gastric bypass surgery led to a significant reduction in the animals’ food intake and a resolution of diabetes symptoms.

“This is a clear proof of principle that the human version of this device may be an effective treatment for obesity and diabetes. The clinical device would be placed endoscopically, making it far less invasive than surgical therapies,” says lead researcher Dr. Lee Kaplan, director of the MGH Weight Center.

“The next step will be to complete large-scale controlled trials of this procedure in human patients. We also need to learn more about how this device affects the complex interplay between receptors that line the stomach and intestine - which are stimulated by ingested food - and the brain, pancreas, liver and other organs involved in metabolism and in eating behaviour,” the researcher added.

A 10-cm-long impermeable sleeve was used to line the duodenum and upper jejunum of rats. It was found to prevent the sensing and absorption of nutrients in that area, and also to deliver relatively undigested nutrients to the lower jejunum.

The researchers implanted the device, called an endoluminal sleeve, in eight rats that had been brought up on a high-fat diet, resulting in obesity and mild diabetes. Another eight rats underwent a similar procedure without implantation of the endoluminal sleeve.

After a one-week recovery period, both groups were given access to the same high-fat diet.

The researchers observed that animals who had received the device took in almost 30 percent fewer calories than did those receiving the sham procedure, and that the treated rats weighed 20 percent less than the control group by the seventh week after the procedure and maintained that weight loss during the 16-week study period.

Their fasting blood glucose levels, insulin levels and oral glucose tolerance all returned to normal levels, said the researchers.

With a view to determining whether the endoluminal sleeve could prevent obesity, the research team implanted the device in rats genetically prone to rapid weight gain but lean since they had been brought up on a low-fat diet.

The treated rats and a control group were then given access to a high-fat diet. While both groups gained weight during the postsurgical period, most of the rats receiving the endoluminal sleeve ate less than the control rats and weighed 12 percent less four weeks after the procedure.

When the researcher examined the treated rats that had gained as much as the controls, they observed that the sleeves had become detached and were eventually excreted.

“A key finding of this study is that the device induced a decrease in food intake as part of its effect and does not act by reducing absorption of nutrients. Like gastric bypass, it appears to change the way that neural and endocrine signals stimulated by nutrients act on their target organs. We still don’t know much about the mechanisms underlying these effects, but we and several other groups are working hard to improve our understanding,” said Kaplan, an associate professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

According to a study released Thursday, a cancer treatment that comes in a pill is as effective as the standard chemotherapy for lung patients.

British medical journal The Lancet published findings of a large clinical trial regarding this.

This international study included more than 1,400 patients for whom standard chemotherapy had been ineffective.

In the study, patients taking Iressa had an average survival of 7.6 months, and 32 percent survived one year, compared with patients getting the chemotherapy drug Taxotere.

The study was paid for by the maker of Iressa, AstraZeneca. Kim says the Food and Drug Administration mandated that the pharmaceutical company conduct this clinical trial.

An Indian-origin IBM expert has revealed that the company is all set to lead a U.S. Government-funded research project that aims at inventing electronic circuits that mimic brains.Dharmendra Modha says that “cognitive computing” is a part of the research project that will bring together neurobiologists, computer and materials scientists and psychologists.

He is of the opinion that the the technology resulting from the team’s efforts might prove useful for large-scale data analysis, decision making or even image recognition.

“The mind has an amazing ability to integrate ambiguous information across the senses, and it can effortlessly create the categories of time, space, object, and interrelationship from the sensory data,” the BBC quoted Modha, who is heading the collaboration, as saying.

“There are no computers that can even remotely approach the remarkable feats the mind performs.

“The key idea of cognitive computing is to engineer mind-like intelligent machines by reverse engineering the structure, dynamics, function and behaviour of the brain,” he added.

Five American universities are participating in the ambitious project, aimed at integrating what is known from real biological systems with the results of supercomputer simulations of neurons. The researchers will later aim to produce the first electronic system that behaves as the simulations do.

Modha has revealed that the team’s longer-term goal is to create a system with the level of complexity of a cat’s brain.

He points out that past studies on simple animals have helped scientists learn much about the inner workings of neurons, and the synapses that connect them, resulting in “wiring diagrams” for simple brains.

He believes that supercomputing can simulate brains up to the complexity of small mammals, using the knowledge from the biological research.

Last year, a research team led by Modha had used the BlueGene supercomputer to simulate a mouse’s brain, comprising 55m neurons and some half a trillion synapses.

“But the real challenge is then to manifest what will be learned from future simulations into real electronic devices - nanotechnology,” he said.

Modha says that the effort requirement of experts from various disciplines for this project shows how unprecedented it is in its scope.

He admits that the goals are more than ambitious.

“We are going not just for a homerun, but for a homerun with the bases loaded,” he says.

A team of French astronomers has used the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO’s) Very Large Telescope (VLT) to detect a planet-like object located very close to the star Beta Pictoris, and which apparently lies inside its disc.

With a projected distance from the star of only 8 times the Earth-Sun distance, this object is most likely the giant planet suspected from the peculiar shape of the disc and the previously observed infall of comets onto the star.

It would then be the first image of a planet that is as close to its host star as Saturn is to the Sun.

The hot star Beta Pictoris is one of the best-known examples of stars surrounded by a dusty ‘debris’ disc.

Debris discs are composed of dust resulting from collisions among larger bodies like planetary embryos or asteroids.

Earlier observations showed a warp of the disc, a secondary inclined disc and infalling comets onto the star.

“These are indirect, but tell-tale signs that strongly suggest the presence of a massive planet lying between 5 and 10 times the mean Earth-Sun distance from its host star,” said team leader Anne-Marie Lagrange.

In 2003, the French team used the NAOS-CONICA instrument, mounted on one of the 8.2 m Unit Telescopes of ESO’s VLT, to study the immediate surroundings of Beta Pictoris.

Recently, a member of the team re-analysed the data in a different way to seek the trace of a companion to the star. Infrared wavelengths are indeed very well suited for such searches.

“For this, the real challenge is to identify and subtract as accurately as possible the bright stellar halo,” explained Lagrange. “We were able to achieve this after a precise and drastic selection of the best images recorded during our observations,” she added.

The strategy proved very rewarding, as the astronomers were able to discern a feeble, point-like glow well inside the star’s halo.

To eliminate the possibility that this was an artifact and not a real object, a battery of tests was conducted and several members of the team, using three different methods, did the analysis independently, always with the same success.

Moreover, the companion was also discovered in other data sets, further strengthening the team’s conclusion that the companion is real.

“Our observations point to the presence of a giant planet, about 8 times as massive as Jupiter and with a projected distance from its star of about 8 times the Earth-Sun distance, which is about the distance of Saturn in our Solar System,” said Lagrange.