Cholesterol-lowering drug linked to sleep disruptions
Medicine & Health / Medications
Nov 07, 2007 |
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A cholesterol-lowering drug appears to disrupt sleep patterns of some patients, researchers reported at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2007.
Shuttle Discovery Returns to Earth After Successful Mission
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 07, 2007 |
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The space shuttle Discovery and its crew landed at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., on Wednesday at 1:01 p.m. EST after completing a 15-day journey of more than 6.2 million miles in space. Discovery's STS-120 ...
How the brain sends eyeballs bouncing
Nov 07, 2007 |
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All vision, including reading this sentence, depends on a constant series of infinitesimal jumps by the eyeball that centers the retina on target objects—words or phrases in the case of reading. Such jumps, or saccades, are ...
Nearing Age 50 Or Retirement? Watch Out For Age Discrimination
Nov 07, 2007 |
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The threat of age discrimination against American workers seems to peak about age 50 and then again when workers near retirement age, according to a new study of validated discrimination claims.
Exceptions prove rule of tropical importance in biodiversity
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Nov 07, 2007 |
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Even a group of shellfish that appear to violate the overarching pattern of global biodiversity actually follows the same biological rules as other marine organisms, confirming a general theory for the spread of life on Earth. ...
Pollution from marine vessels linked to heart and lung disease
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Pollution from marine shipping causes approximately 60,000 premature cardiopulmonary and lung cancer deaths around the world each year, according to a report scheduled to appear in the Dec. 15 issue of Environmental Science an ...
Cancer cells enlist adult stem cells to promote metastasis
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Everyone knows that tumors are packed with cancer cells, but many normal cells live among these deviants. The normal cells form a structural framework called the stroma, which was once thought to resemble ...
Congressional Hearing on Asteroid Threat
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 07, 2007 |
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UC Davis physics professor J. Anthony Tyson will testify before Congress on Thursday, Nov. 8, on near-Earth asteroids. Tyson will talk about the potential role of the proposed Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) in surveying ...
Old McDonald Had a Phytochemical
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Nov 07, 2007 |
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Forget the moo-moo here and quack-quack there. Farmers may find phytochemicals to be the barnyard bonanza.
When to have a child? A new approach to the decision
Nov 07, 2007 |
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Women seeking to balance career, social life and family life in making the decision on when to have a child may benefit from applying formal decision-making science to this complex emotional choice.
Researchers analyze domestic violence deaths
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A task force that includes researchers from the University of Cincinnati is revealing new findings after examining domestic violence-related deaths in Hamilton County, Ohio, from 1997-2006. Of the 48 people who died of domestic ...
NEPTUNE Completes First Phase of Installation
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 07, 2007 |
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The first phase of the new NEPTUNE Canada ocean observatory is being completed today off the west coast of Vancouver Island.
Researchers uncover gene's role in type 1 diabetes
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Researchers at the University of Virginia Health System have identified an enzyme thought to be an important instigator of the inner-body conflict that causes Type 1 diabetes. A chronic condition that affects nearly three ...
From molecules to the Milky Way: dealing with the data deluge
Technology / Computer Sciences
Nov 07, 2007 |
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Most people have a few gigabytes of files on their PC. In the next decade, astronomers expect to be processing 10 million gigabytes of data every hour from the Square Kilometre Array telescope.
New paper on Oxytocin reveals why we are generous
Nov 07, 2007 |
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Neuroeconomist Paul J. Zak of Claremont Graduate University has new research, and a paper, “Oxytocin Increases Generosity in Humans,” which will be published November 7, 2007 in PLoS ONE, the online, open-access journal from ...
