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Fat, thin caterpillars are studied

A U.S.-led international team of scientists says there's no obesity epidemic among insects and the researchers believe they now know why.

Biology /

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Statistics found biomedically effective

U.S. scientists say they have used "recursive partitioning" to identify a mix of neuroendocrine and immune markers that frequently predict mortality.

Medicine & Health / Research

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San Diego hospital sanctioned

The Sharp Memorial Hospital of San Diego, Calif., has been publicly sanctioned and put on probation by the federal contractor in charge of transplant programs.

Medicine & Health / Other

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Oxen feared extinct may never have existed

U.S. scientists say a species of ox discovered in Cambodia in 1937 and hailed as one of the 20th century's most famous finds might never have existed.

Biology /

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Japan urged to end cruel dolphin hunts

An international consortium of scientists is organizing a campaign to halt the annual Japanese dolphin hunts that are said to be extremely cruel.

Space & Earth / Environment

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E. coli found in water near spinach fields

California officials say the E. coli bacterium recently discovered in U.S.-produced bags of spinach is found in nearly all Salinas Valley waterways.

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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Self-Aligning Liquid Crystal Technique Could Simplify Manufacture of Display Devices

A new technique for creating vertical alignment among liquid crystal molecules could allow development of less-costly flexible displays and lead to a better understanding of the factors that govern operation ...

Chemistry /

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First Evidence Found of Mirror Neuron’s Role in Language

What do we find so gripping about a good book, the kind that makes us stay up later than we should to find out what happens to hero or heroine?

Medicine & Health / Research

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Powerful people take more risks

Powerful people view life through rose-colored glasses, with their more optimistic outlook ultimately leading them to engage in riskier behavior.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

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PASER: A Novel Acceleration Scheme Demonstrated

A group of scientists from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology has used the Accelerator Test Facility (ATF) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory to demonstrate, for the first time, the ...

Physics / General Physics

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True or False? How Do We Know?

Innocent or guilty? A jury's finding can depend on the recollection of an eyewitness to crime, but memory is a tricky thing. In the past 20 years, the notion of false memory has moved from the psychology laboratory to the ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

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Feminist view of the body

We do not just have bodies; we are bodies. Dutch researcher Silvia Stoller used this proposition from phenomenology as a basis for studying the theories of three influential feminist philosophies. Her study sheds new light ...

Other Sciences / Other

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Ultrafast star escapes black hole

At last astronomers have a method to accurately measure the speed of stars within a galaxy containing a black hole. Dutch researcher Alessia Gualandris developed the algorithm for this in cooperation with the Astronomical ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

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One protein, two channels: Scientists explain mechanism in aquaporins

Using computer simulations and experimental results, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Arizona have identified a key component of the gating mechanism in aquaporins that controls ...

Chemistry /

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'Extreme Physics' Observatory Ready for Final Assembly

The primary instrument for NASA’s Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) arrived at General Dynamics, Scottsdale, Ariz., on September 18 for mounting onto the spacecraft.

Physics / General Physics

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