Soy estrogens and breast cancer: Researcher offers overview
May 16, 2007 |
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Are soy products healthy additions to a person's diet, safe alternatives to hormone-replacement therapy or cancer-causing agents" The answer, according to University of Illinois food science and human nutrition professor ...
Biodiversity loss linked to economic inequality worldwide
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May 16, 2007 |
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An interdisciplinary team of McGill researchers has uncovered a connection between growing economic inequality and an increase in the number of plant and animal species that are threatened with extinction.
Peanut allergies overstated, study finds
May 16, 2007 |
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Despite hundreds of families being told their children have peanut allergies every year, many of the children may be able to eat peanuts safely, a study by researchers at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and Sydney ...
Parents: Watch what you're putting in that sippy cup, experts warn
May 16, 2007 |
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Juice boxes look harmless enough, with those kid-size, bendable straws and promises of 100 percent vitamin C. As healthy as juice seems, parents need to be wary of doling out too much to children, especially during the summer ...
Investigating coral reefs to help understand past and future climate change
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 16, 2007 |
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Increasing Earth temperatures and rising sea levels. Both of these are effects of climate change. The current concern is that human activity is changing our climate at a rate well above the natural climate cycling. Understanding ...
Carbon sequestration field test begins
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May 16, 2007 |
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The U.S. Department of Energy says its Midwest Geological Sequestration Consortium has started its first enhanced oil recovery field test in Illinois.
Enterprise Apps Vendors Vie for Position
May 16, 2007 |
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The enterprise software market is churning, as SAP and Microsoft partner, Infor acquires Hansen, and Lawson pursues SAAS and development tools.
Decoding protein structures helps illuminate cause of diabetes
May 16, 2007 |
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Any photographer can vouch for the difficulty of capturing a clear picture of a moving target. When it comes to molecules, however, sometimes the motion is exactly what scientists want to see - for example, to understand ...
Microsoft Research Aims to Make Computing Ubiquitous
May 16, 2007 |
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Microsoft is pursuing research projects that aim to put computers into the hands of people in the remotest corners of the world to serve every aspect of their lives, according to Craig Mundie, the company's chief research ...
Exercise may lead to improvement in patients with Parkinson's
May 16, 2007 |
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A new study from researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) shows that treadmill exercises may benefit patients with Parkinson's Disease and those with similar movement disorders.
Microsoft Releases Office 2007 File Converter for Mac
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Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit (Mac BU) made available today a download that will give Apple users the ability to work with Office 2007's new file formats.
Permanent ice fields are resisting global warming
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 16, 2007 |
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The small ice caps of Mont Blanc and the Dôme du Goûter are not melting, or at least, not yet. This is what CNRS researchers have announced in the Journal of Geophysical Research. At very high altitudes (above ...
Does Google's New Tagline Imply a Shift to Enterprise Apps?
May 16, 2007 |
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With a new tagline of "Search, Ads and Apps" announced May 14, and a new presentation application coming soon to complete the desktop quatrain of spreadsheets, word processing, presentation and e-mail, Google is poised to ...
Hives ferment a yeasty brew, attract beetle pest
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May 16, 2007 |
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The honeybee's alarm signal may not only bring help, but also attract the small hive beetle. Now, an international team of researchers has found that small hive beetles can detect some alarm pheromones at levels below that ...
Newly identified mechanism for silencing genes points to possible anti-cancer strategies
May 16, 2007 |
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Genes provide the instructions used by the individual cells to produce the many different proteins that make up the body. Scientists are only beginning to appreciate, however, the extraordinary degree of control exercised ...
