New Window Opens on the Secret Life of Microbes
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Nowhere is the principle of "strength in numbers" more apparent than in the collective power of microbes: despite their simplicity, these one-cell organisms -- which number about 5 million trillion trillion ...
Tackling traffic’s biggest killer
Mar 13, 2008 |
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Each year, over 40,000 people meet their end on Europe’s roads in car accidents. It is the equivalent of several small-scale wars. The biggest killer is head-on collisions, with 6,000 casualties annually. ...
Quitting smoking in pregnancy boosts chances of easygoing child
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Giving up smoking during pregnancy may boost the chances of giving birth to an easy going child, indicates research in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
Salmon fishing season at risk in Calif.
Mar 13, 2008 |
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U.S. officials are considering canceling the 2008 salmon fishing season in California and Oregon because of a dramatic decline in salmon population.
IBM Cracks Web 2.0 Security Concerns With 'SMash'
Mar 13, 2008 |
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IBM today announced new technology to secure "mashups," web applications that pull information from multiple sources, such as Web sites, enterprise databases or emails, to create one unified view. Mashups are attractive for ...
Scientists say tropics are next emerging disease hotspot
Mar 13, 2008 |
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Scientists from four well-known institutions say the next major disease like HIV/AIDS or SARS could occur in any of a number of developing countries concentrated along the equator. They encourage increased ...
Overweight, obese women improve quality of life with 10 to 30 minutes of exercise
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Sedentary, overweight or obese women can improve their quality of life by exercising as little as 10 to 30 minutes a day, researchers reported at the American Heart Association’s Conference on Nutrition, Physical Activity ...
Successful manoeuvres position Jules Verne ATV for crucial tests
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 13, 2008 |
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Jules Verne ATV successfully performed two boosts today, bringing the spacecraft to an altitude of 303 km – half-way between the insertion orbit reached after last Sunday's launch and the orbit of the International ...
Regular low dose aspirin cuts asthma risk in women
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A small dose of aspirin on alternate days can cut the risk of developing asthma among women, suggests a large study, published ahead of print in Thorax.
Rodent study finds artificial butter chemical harmful to lungs
Mar 13, 2008 |
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A new study shows that exposure to a chemical called diacetyl, a component of artificial butter flavoring, can be harmful to the nose and airways of mice. Scientists at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences ...
New research provides dynamic visualization of simplest circadian clock
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Mar 13, 2008 |
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Scientists have acquired a more dynamic picture of events that underlie the functions of a bacterial biological clock. New research published online March 13th by Cell Press in the journal Molecular Cell, shows how the si ...
All eyes and ears on the corn genome
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Mar 13, 2008 |
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A consortium of researchers led by the Genome Sequencing Center (GSC) at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., announced today the completion of a draft sequence of the corn genome.
Study names 5 factors of social ills in energy, mining and logging communities
Mar 13, 2008 |
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The troubling link between boom towns and high rates of substance abuse is usually attributed to workers having too much money and too little to do. But a recent study of one Canadian community suggests underlying pressures ...
Team announces 'predictor' for pregnant women who may have miscarriages
Mar 13, 2008 |
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A medical team from the University of Leicester has been able to establish for the first time a predictor for pregnant women who may have miscarriages and those who won’t. Their research is published in the highly prestigious ...
Plastic bags killing Queensland’s turtles
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A group of University of Queensland researchers are urging Queenslanders to avoid littering the state's marine environment during the upcoming Easter holiday weekend.
