Probiotics may be able to help you keep slim
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Researchers from LIFE - Faculty of Life Sciences at University of Copenhagen are working on a promising research project that seems to indicate that probiotics have a slimming effect.
Galactic X-ray emissions originate from stars
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A 25-year old astronomical mystery has been solved: Most of the diffuse X-ray emissions in the Milky Way do not originate from one single source but from so-called white dwarfs and from stars ...
UFO? No, it's just the International Space Station
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 05, 2009 |
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As a public service, Art Maurer would like you to know that the bright light you might see skimming across the early morning sky later this week is not a UFO.
Erosion of the Yucca Mountain crest
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 05, 2009 |
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The Yucca Mountain crest in Nevada, USA has been proposed as a permanent site for high level radioactive waste. But a new study, already published as an article in press by Elsevier's journal Geomorphology and recently includ ...
How Social Insects Recognize Dead Nestmates
May 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When an ant dies in an ant nest or near one, its body is quickly picked up by living ants and removed from the colony, thus limiting the risk of colony infection by pathogens from the corpse.
New study reinforces significant role of walnuts in diet
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study has found that keeping the diet for type 2 diabetes under control gets a lot of help from including daily amounts of foods with the right kind of fats such as walnuts.
Estrogen controls how the brain processes sound
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 05, 2009 |
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Scientists at the University of Rochester have discovered that the hormone estrogen plays a pivotal role in how the brain processes sounds.
World's Largest Tornado Experiment Heads for Great Plains (w/Videos)
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 05, 2009 |
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The largest and most ambitious tornado study in history will begin next week, as dozens of scientists deploy radars and other ground-based instruments across the Great Plains to gain a better understanding ...
NYPD Goes Green
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New York City has a goal to reduce its overall carbon footprint. For Manhattan, the goal is to reduce greenhouse gases 30% by 2017. As part of this effort, the New York City Police Department ...
New Antarctic seabed sonar images reveal clues to sea-level rise
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 05, 2009 |
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Motorway-sized troughs and channels carved into Antarctica's continental shelves by glaciers thousands of years ago could help scientists to predict future sea-level rise according to a report in the journal ...
US to push plan to swap for fuel efficient cars
May 05, 2009 |
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A key US lawmaker Tuesday announced agreement after White House talks on a plan to offer Americans government cash to trade in "old clunkers" -- ancient, gas guzzling cars -- for fuel efficient models.
Poverty is rooted in US education system, researcher says
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 05, 2009 |
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Inequalities are rooted in many areas of the U.S. education system, and the current system's relationship with poverty has not improved, according to a Kansas State University researcher.
If Spitzer Could Talk: An Interview with NASA's Coolest Space Telescope
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 05, 2009 |
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NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is about to use its last drop of the coolant that has chilled it for the past five-and-a-half years. On about May 12, give or take a week or so, the observatory is predicted ...
Botnet Hijacking Steals 70GB of Data
May 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Security researchers have uncovered one of the most notorious zombie networks, the Torpig botnet, by collecting 70GB of data that was stolen in just 10 days.
Researchers find snippet of RNA that helps make individuals remarkably alike
May 05, 2009 |
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"No two people are alike." Yet when we consider the thousands of genes with frequent differences in genetic composition among different people, it is remarkable how much alike we are.
