Key found to moonlight romance
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An international team of Australian and Israeli researchers has discovered what could be the aphrodisiac for the biggest moonlight sex event on Earth.
Height affects how people perceive their quality of life
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Your height in adult life significantly affects your quality of life, with short people reporting worse physical and mental health than people of normal height. This large, peer reviewed study, which appears in Clinical Endocrinology, ...
Probing Question: How do songbirds learn to sing?
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"Poor Sam Peabody, Peabody, Peabody!"
"Please, please, pleased to meetcha!"
"Who cooks for you?"
Sidestepping cancer's chaperone
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Cancerous tumors are wildly unfavorable environments. Struggling for oxygen and nutrients while being bombarded by the body’s defense systems, tumor cells in fact require sophisticated adaptations to survive and grow. For ...
Computer solution to delivery problem
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With the gift-giving season almost upon us and increasing concerns about the environmental effects of all those deliveries and pickups, it is timely that researchers should turn their attention to the so-called Traveling ...
Mice offer clues to the roots of human resilience
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When faced with adversity, some people succumb to debilitating psychological diseases including posttraumatic stress disorder and depression, while others are able to remain remarkably optimistic.
Exposure to sunlight may decrease risk of advanced breast cancer by half
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A research team from the Northern California Cancer Center, the University of Southern California, and Wake Forest University School of Medicine has found that increased exposure to sunlight – which increases levels of vitamin ...
Immune cells fighting chronic infections become progressively 'exhausted,' ineffective
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A new study of immune cells battling a chronic viral infection shows that the cells, called T cells, become exhausted by the fight in specific ways, undergoing profound changes that make them progressively less effective ...
When Ants Go Sweating: Zoologists to Study Climate Change Effects
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A North Carolina State University zoologist is the lead researcher on a five-year, $3 million study that will turn up the heat on a number of ant species to learn more about the effects of climate change.
Researchers studying how singing bats communicate
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Bats are the most vocal mammals other than humans, and understanding how they communicate during their nocturnal outings could lead to better treatments for human speech disorders, say researchers at Texas A&M University.
New report: private/public insurance mix is most practical way to achieve universal coverage
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Health insurance reform plans that build on a mix of private and public health insurance, where costs are shared among government, employers, and enrollees would have great potential to move the system to high performance ...
USC study examines effects of caregiving
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Oct 18, 2007 |
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A new study from the USC Davis School of Gerontology found that caregivers of different ethnicities showed few negative mental or physical health effects as a result of tending to a family member with dementia.
Cross-species transplant in rhesus macaques is step toward diabetes cure for humans
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With an eye on curing diabetes, scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have successfully transplanted embryonic pig pancreatic cells destined to produce insulin into diabetic macaque monkeys – ...
ISS Expedition Crews Working Together
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
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The newly arrived Expedition 16 crew members continue to familiarize themselves with life aboard the International Space Station as Expedition 15 nears the end of its mission.
Accounting professor: Transparency won’t necessarily control CEO pay
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In late August, the Securities and Exchange Commission sent about 300 letters to companies requesting more disclosure regarding executive pay. The move has many asking if transparency will actually make a difference
