Weeding out the highs of medical marijuana
Jul 15, 2008 |
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Research exploring new ways of exploiting the full medicinal uses of cannabis while avoiding unwanted side-effects will be presented to pharmacologists today (Tuesday, 15 July) by leading scientists attending the Federation ...
Consumption of nut products during pregnancy linked to increased asthma in children
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Expectant mothers who eat nuts or nut products like peanut butter daily during pregnancy increase their children's risk of developing asthma by more than 50 percent over women who rarely or never consume nut products during ...
Phoenix Mars Lander Extending Trench
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 15, 2008 |
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NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is using its Robotic Arm to enlarge an exposure of hard subsurface material expected to yield a sample of ice-rich soil for analysis in one of the lander's ovens.
New Report: Greatest Value of Forests is Sustainable Water Supply
Jul 15, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The forests of the future may need to be managed as much for a sustainable supply of clean water as any other goal, researchers say in a new federal report – but even so, forest resources will offer no “quick ...
The emerging story of plant roots
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An international group of European and US scientists led by the Centre for Plant Integrative Biology at The University of Nottingham have uncovered a fascinating new insight into the unseen side of plant biology — the root.
Not exactly your grandfather's Lego
Jul 15, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Some students just can't get enough of a good thing. Willingly spending more than 11 hours a day in a classroom is what happens when you combine Lego robotics with inquisitive minds.
Study: Future snowmelt in West twice as early as expected; threatens ecosystems and water reserves
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 15, 2008 |
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According to a new study, global warming could lead to larger changes in snowmelt in the western United States than was previously thought, possibly increasing wildfire risk and creating new water management ...
Researchers find further evidence for genetic contribution to autism
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Jul 15, 2008 |
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Some parents of children with autism evaluate facial expressions differently than the rest of us--and in a way that is strikingly similar to autistic patients themselves, according to new research by neuroscientist Ralph ...
Fraud with cultured pearls can be detected
Jul 15, 2008 |
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Scientists at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Germany) advise buyers of cultured pearls to be more vigilant. "In Germany too, we are increasingly seeing Chinese sweet-water cultured pearls being marketed as Japanese, ...
Culture and depression
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 15, 2008 |
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The expectation that East-Asian people emphasize physical symptoms of depression (e.g. headaches, poor appetite or aches/pains in the body) is widely acknowledged, yet the few available empirical studies report mixed data ...
New Intel-Based Laptops Advance All Facets of Notebook PCs
Jul 15, 2008 |
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Intel Corporation unveiled its Intel Centrino 2 Processor Technology products for laptops today, powered by five new Intel Core2 Duo processors. Close to 250 innovative consumer and business notebook PC designs ...
Possible link found between X-rays and prostate cancer
Jul 15, 2008 |
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Researchers at The University of Nottingham have shown an association between certain past diagnostic radiation procedures and an increased risk of young-onset prostate cancer — a rare form of prostate cancer which affects ...
Scientists demonstrate means of reducing Alzheimer's-like plaques in fly brain
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Neuroscientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) are part of a collaboration that has succeeded in demonstrating that overexpression of an enzyme in the brain can reduce telltale deposits causally linked with Alzheimer's ...
Stink bugs are on the move across Pennsylvania
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(PhysOrg.com) -- They're big, they're distinctively aromatic, and they're coming to a home near you. Stink bugs are on the move across Pennsylvania and a bug expert in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences says we ...
Portion control key to keeping holiday weight gain at bay
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Interested in keeping the pounds off this holiday season? A nutrition expert at Washington University in St. Louis has some very simple tips for remembering accurate portion sizes, which may be even more ...
