Can massage chairs or a vibrating mouse prevent computer-related injuries?
Dec 12, 2007 |
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A chair that undulates, a mouse that vibrates, a monitor suspended over a desk on a movable arm. These are some of the kinds of newfangled ergonomic products that Alan Hedge, international authority on office ...
NIST Encasement Now Protecting 'America's Birth Certificate'
Dec 12, 2007 |
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A hermetically sealed glass and aluminum encasement built by the National Institute of Standards and Technology will protect the first world map to label the lands of the New World as “America” when the “Exploring ...
The bear necessities of aging
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Dec 12, 2007 |
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According to George Bernard Shaw: “We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing,” but how fast does that aging occur once started" In the case of populations of salmon in Alaska studied by ...
Piddling fish face off threat of competition
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Dec 12, 2007 |
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Research published today in the online open access journal, BMC Biology, shows that male tilapia fish use pheromones in their urine to fight off competitors and enforce social dominance.
Predicting growth hormone treatment success
Dec 12, 2007 |
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Growth hormone treatments work better on some children than on others, but judging which candidates will gain those vital inches in height is no simple task. Now researchers have developed a new mathematical model which predicts ...
USC researchers explore genetic causes for male infertility
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Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) suggest epigenetics, or the way DNA is processed and expressed, may be the underlying cause for male infertility. The study will be published in the Dec. 12 issue ...
Most carriers of Fanconi anemia genes are not at a higher risk of cancer
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For almost 50 years, Fanconi anemia has been associated with leukemia. Not just among those who have the genetic disorder but among their family members, whose genes, they were told, made them highly susceptible to a variety ...
Study examines how women label abuse
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
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U.S. social scientists have found women assaulted by those known to them are less likely to label the experience as abusive violence.
