Barnacles go to great lengths for sex
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Feb 07, 2008 |
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Compelled to mate, yet firmly attached to the rock, barnacles have evolved the longest penis of any animal for their size - up to eight times their body length - so they can find and fertilize distant neighbours.
Super Tuesday results indicate race card may be a joker in primaries
Feb 07, 2008 |
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The Bradley effect may be alive and multiplying after Super Tuesday. Sifting through overnight results, University of Washington researchers have found that race still plays a role in American politics and it showed up Tuesday ...
Tattooing improves response to DNA vaccine
Feb 07, 2008 |
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A tattoo can be more than just a fashion statement – it has potential medical value, according to an article published in the online open access journal, Genetic Vaccines and Therapy.
Teenage fathers are more likely to have babies affected by birth problems
Feb 07, 2008 |
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Teenage fathers are at increased risk of having babies born with birth problems ranging from pre-term delivery or low birth weight, through to death in or near to the time of delivery, according to new research published ...
Close ties between parents and babies yield benefits for preschoolers
Feb 07, 2008 |
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Having close ties with parents is obviously good for preschoolers, but what does that really mean? It means that the preschoolers are better able to control their own behavior by showing patience, deliberation, restraint, ...
Tomato pathogen genome may offer clues about bacterial evolution at dawn of agriculture
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Feb 07, 2008 |
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The availability of new genome sequencing technology has prompted a Virginia Tech plant scientist to test an intriguing hypothesis about how agriculture’s early beginnings may have impacted the evolution of plant pathogens.
Computer interaction gets some humanity
Technology / Computer Sciences
Feb 07, 2008 |
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Human-computer interaction has not improved enormously since Mark Twain's time, when the typewriter was invented. A European research task force hopes to change that by making human-computer interaction, well, ‘similar’ to ...
Impaired fat-burning gene worsens diabetes
Feb 07, 2008 |
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Researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have in collaboration with researchers from Finland, China, Japan and the US discovered new cellular mechanisms that lead to in insulin resistance in people ...
Study suggests new therapy for lung disease patients
Feb 07, 2008 |
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A new study by researchers at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine may change current thinking about how best to treat patients in respiratory distress in hospital intensive care units.
Genes and environment interact in first graders to predict physical but not social aggression
Feb 07, 2008 |
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Physical aggression in children comes from their genes and the environment in which they grow up. Social aggression, such as spreading rumors or ignoring other children, has less to do with genetic factors and more with environmental ...
Claim: Diabetes study increases death risk
Feb 07, 2008 |
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Experts have ended part of a study which aimed to lessen diabetics' heart disease risk after they found it increased death risks, a report said.
Comatose locusts may help relieve migraines
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Feb 07, 2008 |
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The way locusts react to stress may provide an important clue to understanding what causes human migraines – and how to reduce their painful effects, says Queen’s University Biology professor Mel Robertson.
Madagascar's tortoises are crawling toward extinction, groups say
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Feb 07, 2008 |
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Madagascar’s turtles and tortoises, which rank among the most endangered reptiles on earth, will continue to crawl steadily toward extinction unless major conservation measure are enacted, according to a recent ...
Root or shoot? EAR calls the shots
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Feb 07, 2008 |
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Controlled by a tightly regulated choreography that determines what should go up and what should go down, plants develop along a polar axis with a root on one end and a shoot on the other.
HIV drugs, Abacavir and Didanosine increase the risk of heart attack
Medicine & Health / Medications
Feb 07, 2008 |
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A study to assess the adverse effects of anti-retroviral drugs shows that two widely-used HIV drugs are associated with an increased risk of heart attack/the formation of blood clots in the heart. With the use of Didanosine, ...
