Renaissance mystery solved
Feb 08, 2008 |
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Forensic scientists said the death of Italian Renaissance philosopher Giovanni Pico della Mirandola appears to have been foul play.
Case links death to environmental tobacco smoke
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A young asthmatic woman who collapsed and died shortly after arriving for her shift as a waitress at a bar may be the first reported death to be reported nationally from acute asthma associated with environmental tobacco ...
Studying rivers for clues to global carbon cycle
Feb 08, 2008 |
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In the science world, in the media, and recently, in our daily lives, the debate continues over how carbon in the atmosphere is affecting global climate change. Studying just how carbon cycles throughout the Earth is an enormous ...
New York, New York: Study determines difference between abstract and concrete jungle
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 08, 2008 |
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The Big Apple, a densely populated metropolis of more than 8.2 million people in the 332 square miles of blocks, boroughs and buildings, could have been named metaphorically by outsiders as a fertile land of opportunity. ...
Study confirms that low-calorie sweeteners are helpful in weight control
Feb 08, 2008 |
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A recent review of the scientific literature concluded that low-calorie (or no-calorie) sweeteners may be of help in resolving the obesity problem. Although they are not magic bullets, low-calorie sweeteners in beverages ...
Teams battle to on-screen victory
Feb 08, 2008 |
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Tanks, soldiers, snipers, mortars and bombers fanned out rapidly over unfamiliar undulating terrain, searching for their enemy counterparts and trying to seize control of battle towers. Some armies swarmed ...
Misery is not miserly: New study finds why even momentary sadness increases spending
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 08, 2008 |
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How you are feeling has an impact on your routine economic transactions, whether you’re aware of this effect or not.
Quality schooling has little impact on teenage sexual activity
Feb 08, 2008 |
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A report published in the online open access journal, BMC Public Health, shows that socio-economic situation and the local high school catchment area have a more powerful influence on reported sexual experience among 15 and ...
Scientists explore ways to improve management of California spiny lobsters
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Feb 08, 2008 |
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Unique, collaborative ways to manage fisheries are emerging in Southern California. Currently the California spiny lobster is being scrutinized as Californians evaluate the first five years of marine reserves ...
Workplace autopilot threatens security risk perception
Feb 08, 2008 |
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Safeguarding sensitive information - no matter how sophisticated the IT system - can never be foolproof, according to research published this week by Leeds University Business School.
Taxi! Novel location-based services hailed
Feb 08, 2008 |
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European researchers are developing a range of novel technologies and end-to-end solutions for indoor and outdoor geo-location scenarios encountered by the likes of utility companies, emergency services and ...
Gene variant predicts medication response in patients with alcohol dependence
Feb 08, 2008 |
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Patients with a certain gene variant drank less and experienced better overall clinical outcomes than patients without the variant while taking the medication naltrexone, according to an analysis of participants in the National ...
Doctors will soon be able to feel organs via a display screen
Feb 08, 2008 |
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With the aid of computerized image analysis, it may be possible in the future for radiologists to feel images with the help of a three-dimensional mouse. Erik Vidholm at Uppsala University has been involved ...
New finding may help explain development of preeclampsia
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In a study of pregnant women, those with pregnancy-induced high blood pressure were found to have higher levels of a peptide that raises blood pressure in the pieces of tissue linking mother and fetus, according to researchers ...
Science, not romance, controls mating at Smithsonian's National Zoo
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This Valentine’s Day, Cupid won’t be making a stop at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo. Unlike the spontaneous attraction that most humans equate with love and romance, mating and dating at the National Zoo ...
