Researcher finds fossilized shell-breaking crab
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 17, 2008 |
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While waiting for colleagues at a small natural history museum in the state of Chiapas, Mexico last year, Cornell paleontologist Greg Dietl chanced upon a discovery that has helped rewrite the evolutionary ...
Study: Impact Exercise Increases Bone Mass, Decreases Fracture Risk
Apr 17, 2008 |
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Two new studies conducted by Oregon State University researchers show that jumping exercises conducted over a single school year during early childhood resulted in significant bone mass increases ranging between 3 percent ...
Researchers look to make environmentally friendly plastics
Apr 17, 2008 |
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Every year, more than 30 billion water bottles are added to America's landfills, creating a mountainous environmental problem. But if research at Missouri University of Science and Technology is successful, the plastic bottles ...
Study finds 1 in 5 Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer from PTSD or major depression
Apr 17, 2008 |
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Nearly 20 percent of military service members who have returned from Iraq and Afghanistan -- 300,000 in all -- report symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder or major depression, yet only slight more than half have sought ...
Historic Soviet nuclear test site offers insights for today's nuclear monitoring
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 17, 2008 |
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Newly published data from the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site, the Soviet Union’s primary nuclear weapons testing ground during the Cold War, can help today’s atomic detectives fine-tune their monitoring of nuclear explosions ...
MU researchers find clue to cataract formation
Apr 17, 2008 |
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It is the No. 1 line-item cost of Medicare reimbursement and affects more than 20 million people in the United States. Cataracts, which can have devastating effects on the eye, affect 42 percent of the population between ...
Researchers find potential in yeast for selecting Lou Gehrig's disease drugs
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Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine are developing a novel approach to screen for drugs to combat neurodegenerative diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig's disease, ...
New NASA Moon Mission Begins Integration of Science Instruments
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 17, 2008 |
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Several instruments that will help NASA characterize the moon's surface have been installed on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO. The powerful equipment will bring the moon into sharper focus and reveal new insights ...
New study validates hurricane prediction
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 17, 2008 |
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Hurricanes in some areas, including the North Atlantic, are likely to become more intense as a result of global warming even though the number of such storms worldwide may decline, according to a new study by MIT researchers.
Researchers reveal communication tactics used by sexual predators to entrap children
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A child’s innocence and vulnerability presents a target for a sexual predator’s abusive behavior. University of Missouri researchers are beginning to understand the communication process by which predators lure victims into ...
Email scam targets executives
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Thousands of U.S. executives were targeted in a phishing scam with fake e-mail messages that appear to be official federal court subpoenas.
Sign language interpreters at high ergonomic risk
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Sign language interpreting is one of the highest-risk professions for ergonomic injury, according to a new study conducted by Rochester Institute of Technology. The research indicates that interpreting causes more physical ...
Readily available treatment could help prevent heart disease in kidney patients
Apr 17, 2008 |
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The estimated 19 million Americans living with chronic kidney disease (CKD) face a high risk of death from cardiovascular disease. Recent studies have shown that a main source of this cardiovascular risk is CKD patients' ...
Male and female brains are not so different, fruit flies’ sex acts tell us
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Apr 17, 2008 |
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While males and females might sometimes act as though they come from different planets, a new study in flies suggests they are both equipped with a largely unisex brain.
Latest rheumatoid arthritis drugs compared
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Findings published today in the open access journal BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders shows that the latest class of drugs used to treat rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are better than standard anti-inflammatories.
