Monkeys don't go for easy pickings
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Animals' natural foraging decisions give an insight into their cognitive abilities, and primates do not automatically choose the easy option. Instead, they appear to decide where to feed based on the quality of the resources ...
Foxes get frisky in the far north
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Bees do it, chimps do it… Now it seems Arctic foxes do it, too. New research looking at the DNA fingerprints of canids in the Far North has revealed that foxes once thought to be monogamous are in fact quite frisky.
Throttling Back to the Moon
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 17, 2007 |
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Accelerating from 0 to 60 then slowing down for a stop light is no problem for an ordinary automobile. But if you were piloting a rocketship, it wouldn't be so easy. Most rocket engines are designed to burn ...
ISS crew prepares for a spacewalk
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 17, 2007 |
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The International Space Station crew is preparing for a Monday spacewalk by station Cmdr. Fyodor Yurchikhin and astronaut Clay Anderson.
Nerve impulses from primary motor cortex can cause movement even when person is unaware
Jul 17, 2007 |
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Alien hand syndrome (AHS) is a rare neurological disorder that causes hand movement without the person being aware of what is happening or having control over the action. The afflicted person may sometimes reach for objects ...
Interventions during hospital stays can help motivate smokers to quit
Jul 17, 2007 |
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Hospitalized patients make a great captive audience for smoking cessation efforts, according to a new systematic review.
Cardiac patches stimulate regeneration, improve function after heart attack
Jul 17, 2007 |
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When human hearts are injured, as during a heart attack, healthy tissue normally can’t regrow. Researchers now demonstrate in rats that a sponge-like patch, soaked in a compound called periostin and placed over the injury, ...
More Chinese-made toothpaste is recalled
Jul 17, 2007 |
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration Monday announced the nationwide recall of DentFresh Fluoride Mint Toothpaste because of possible contamination.
Koala Chlamydia vaccine to be tested
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Jul 17, 2007 |
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The first trials of an Australian vaccine designed to protect koalas from Chlamydia infection is being planned.
Goddard Space Center to get new building
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 17, 2007 |
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Ground has been broken at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., for a new sciences building.
NASA helps space crews breathe easier
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 17, 2007 |
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration successfully tested a new oxygen generating system aboard the International Space Station.
FDA approves new breast cancer lab test
Jul 17, 2007 |
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first molecular-based laboratory test for detecting whether breast cancer has metastasized.
Study finds HIV protease inhibitor drugs may adversely affect the scaffolding of the cell nucleus
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jul 17, 2007 |
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UCLA scientists, along with collaborators from Purdue University, have demonstrated that HIV protease inhibitors — crucial drugs for HIV treatment — block a cellular enzyme important for generating the structural scaffolding ...
Measles vaccinations need to be repeated to protect HIV-infected children
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HIV-infected children may require repeat measles vaccination for protection, according to new research from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and other institutions. The researchers found that only half ...
NTT DoCoMo to Start Marketing Japanese Support for BlackBerry
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NTT DoCoMo announced today that it will begin marketing Research In Motion's BlackBerry 8707h with Japanese-language support on July 23.
