Recommendations for children's exercise lacking say experts
Oct 10, 2008 |
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Researchers from the Peninsula Medical School in Plymouth, UK, have carried out research that suggests the one hour of moderate exercise a day recommended to children from health experts may not be enough to tackle the rising ...
Young stellar objects: The source of gas emission around Herbig Ae/Be stars
Oct 10, 2008 |
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This week, Astronomy & Astrophysics is publishing new observations with AMBER/VLTI of the gas component in the vicinity of young stars. An international team of astronomers led by E. Tatulli (Grenoble, France) and S. Kra ...
Opening a can of worms: Serendipitous discovery reveals earthworms more diverse than first thought
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Oct 10, 2008 |
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Scientists have found that the UK's common or garden earthworms are far more diverse than previously thought, a discovery with important consequences for agriculture.
Study finds stroke-prevention surgery safe in growing 80-plus population
Oct 10, 2008 |
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New research published in the October issue of Journal of the American College of Surgeons challenges the current opinion that patients in their eighties, who are often deemed "high-risk" due to their advanced age, should ...
On the trail of a targeted therapy for blood cancers
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Investigators from the Herman B Wells Center for Pediatric Research at the Indiana University School of Medicine are focusing on a family of blood proteins that they hope holds a key to decreasing the toxic ...
Astronomers get best view yet of infant stars at feeding time
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Astronomers have used ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer to conduct the first high resolution survey that combines spectroscopy and interferometry on intermediate-mass infant stars. They obtained a ...
Early planting lets farmers be both mean and green, study shows
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Oct 10, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Farmers can be both mean and green when protecting their canola fields from a pesky insect that poses a chronic threat, says a University of Alberta researcher.
Volcanic eruption signals simulated in lab for first time
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Oct 10, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, seismic signals that precede a volcanic eruption have been simulated and visualized in 3-D under controlled pressure conditions in a laboratory. The ability to conduct such simulations ...
Mars Odyssey Shifting Orbit for Extended Mission
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Oct 10, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The longest-serving of six spacecraft now studying Mars is up to new tricks for a third two-year extension of its mission to examine the most Earthlike of known foreign planets.
Only some Web sites provide patients with reliable information before having an operation
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New research published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons shows unsponsored and professional society Web sites provide significantly higher quality information about common elective surgical procedures compar ...
Indo-Australian study identifies genetic region involved in schizophrenia risk
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A study involving an Indian population has led to an important discovery in schizophrenia genetics.
A link between mitochondria and tumor formation in stem cells
Oct 10, 2008 |
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Researchers report on a previously unknown relationship between stem cell potency and the metabolic rate of their mitochondria –a cell's energy makers. Stem cells with more active mitochondria also have a greater capacity ...
Pregnancy not turning minds to mush: Study
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Pregnancy and motherhood may make us all go a little gooey, but it's not turning mums' brains into mush, according to mental health researchers at The Australian National University.
Has a new era of reinstitutionalization in mental health care begun?
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[B]Research paper: A retrospective analysis of hospital episode statistics, involuntary admissions under the Mental Health Act 1983, and the number of psychiatric beds in England 1996-2006[/B] The number of compulsory adm ...
Fitness in a changing world: The genetics and adaptations of the Alaskan stickleback fish
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Oct 10, 2008 |
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The stickleback fish, Gasterosteus aculeatus, is one of the most thoroughly studied organisms in the wild, and has been a particularly useful model for understanding variation in physiology, behavior, life h ...
