Rising acidity levels could trigger shellfish revenue declines, job losses
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hanges in ocean chemistry -- a consequence of increased carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from human industrial activity — could cause U.S. shellfish revenues to drop significantly in the next 50 years, according ...
Common fish species has 'human' ability to learn
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Although worlds apart, the way fish learn could be closer to humans' way of thinking than previously believed, suggests a new research study.
When palm trees gave way to spruce trees
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 17, 2009 |
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For climatologists, part of the challenge in predicting the future is figuring out exactly what happened during previous periods of global climate change.
Carrots cooked whole contain more anti-cancer compound
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Chopping up your carrot after it has been cooked boosts its anti-cancer properties by 25 per cent, scientists at Newcastle University have found. The study, carried out by Newcastle University’s Dr Kirsten Brandt and researcher ...
Researchers putting a freeze on oscillator vibrations
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University of Oregon physicists have successfully landed a one-two punch on a tiny glass sphere, refrigerating it in liquid helium and then dosing its perimeter with a laser beam, to bring its naturally occurring mechanical ...
Company illegally tested bone cement on people, indictment says
Jun 17, 2009 |
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A Swiss company with major operations in West Chester, Pa., illegally tested its bone cement on about 200 people, three of whom died, according to a 52-count indictment issued Tuesday by the U.S. Attorney in Philadelphia.
Structures from the human immune system's oldest branch shed light on a range of diseases
Jun 17, 2009 |
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How molecules of the oldest branch of the human immune system have interconnected has remained a mystery. Now, two new structures, both involving a central component of an enzyme important to the complement ...
Researchers discovers how strain at grain boundaries suppresses high-temperature superconductivity
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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have discovered that a reduction in mechanical strain at the boundaries of crystal grains can significantly improve the performance ...
NIST finds 'a touch of glass' in metal, settles century-old question
Jun 17, 2009 |
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Better predictions of how many valuable materials behave under stress could be on the way from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where scientists have recently found evidence of an ...
Beaked, bird-like dinosaur tells story of finger evolution
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jun 17, 2009 |
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James Clark, the Ronald B. Weintraub Professor of Biology in The George Washington University's Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, and Xu Xing, of the Chinese Academy of Science's Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology ...
Sands of Gobi Desert yield new species of nut-cracking dinosaur
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jun 17, 2009 |
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Plants or meat: That's about all that fossils ever tell paleontologists about a dinosaur's diet. But the skull characteristics of a new species of parrot-beaked dinosaur and its associated gizzard stones indicate ...
New Cortex Study Uncovers How We Recognize What is True and What is False
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 17, 2009 |
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A recent neuroimaging study reveals that the ability to distinguish true from false in our daily lives involves two distinct processes. Previous research relied heavily on the premise that true and false statements are both ...
'Life force' linked to body's ability to withstand stress
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 17, 2009 |
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Our ability to withstand stress-related, inflammatory diseases may be associated, not just with our race and sex, but with our personality as well, according to a study published in the July issue of the journal Brain, Be ...
Study separates russian flat tax myth and fact
Jun 17, 2009 |
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Proponents of a flat rate income tax often point to Russia's 2001 switch to a 13 percent flat tax as nothing short of an economic miracle.
Libya records 13 cases of bubonic plague
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Thirteen cases of bubonic plague have been recorded in eastern Libya, near the border with Egypt, Health Minister Mohamad Hijazi told AFP on Wednesday, stressing the situation was under control.
