Mothers trade child quantity for quality
Jan 23, 2008 |
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Researchers at the University of Sheffield have shown that mothers are choosing to have fewer children in order to give their children the best start in life, but by doing so are going against millenia of human evolution. ...
Seasonal weight changes linked to metabolic syndrome
Jan 23, 2008 |
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Seasonal changes in weight increase the risk for metabolic syndrome, a group of scientists from National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland, reports in a study published in the January 23 issue of the online, open-access ...
Study: How much you're willing to pay depends on what you were just doing
Jan 23, 2008 |
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Your shopping buddy turns to you and asks, “Which one of these would you get?” Or, you’re talking with your spouse about which candidate you’d like to vote for before switching on the nightly news. Turns out simply being ...
Team IDs weakness in anthrax bacteria
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Jan 23, 2008 |
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MIT and New York University researchers have identified a weakness in the defenses of the anthrax bacterium that could be exploited to produce new antibiotics.
Videos Extract Mechanical Properties of Liquid-Gel Interfaces
Jan 23, 2008 |
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Blood coursing through vessels, lubricated cartilage sliding against joints, ink jets splashing on paper—living and nonliving things abound with fluids meeting solids. However important these liquid/solid ...
No time before Valentine's Day? You'll pay more for a gift just to avoid a negative outcome
Jan 23, 2008 |
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It’s a month before Valentine’s Day. With time to spare, you consider a number of grand, romantic ways to demonstrate your affection for your sweetheart. But what if it’s the night before and you still don’t have a gift" ...
Motorcycle helmets keep riders alive, review confirms
Jan 23, 2008 |
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Fewer than half of U.S. states require every motorcycle rider — drivers and passengers — to wear a helmet; and four states have no helmet requirements whatsoever. Around the world, the same patchwork legal pattern exists.
Adaptive functional evolution of leptin in cold-adaptive pika family
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Jan 23, 2008 |
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Researchers at the Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences have put forward the viewpoint for the first time that adaptive functional evolution may occur in the leptin protein of the pika (Ochotona) ...
Quality control mechanism tags defective sperm cells inside the body
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Jan 23, 2008 |
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Defective sperm cells do not pass through the body unnoticed. A new University of Missouri study provides evidence that the body recognizes and tags defective sperm cells while they undergo maturation in the epididymis, a ...
Study of Whitehall civil servants explains how stress at work is linked to heart disease
Jan 23, 2008 |
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New research has produced strong evidence of how work stress is linked to the biological mechanisms involved in the onset of heart disease.
Less education may lead to delayed awareness of Alzheimer's onset
Jan 23, 2008 |
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A review of epidemiological data has found evidence that people who spend fewer years in school may experience a slight but statistically significant delay in the realization that they're having cognitive problems that could ...
Driving proves potentially hazardous for people with early Alzheimer's
Jan 23, 2008 |
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A new study by researchers at Rhode Island Hospital and Brown University finds that people with Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) experienced more accidents and performed more poorly on road tests compared to drivers without cognitive ...
Modifications Completed on NASA's New Research Aircraft
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 23, 2008 |
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NASA's S-3 Viking aircraft returned home to NASA's Glenn Research Center after extensive modifications to transform it from a carrier-based military aircraft to a state-of-the-art icing research aircraft.
Genetic difference predicts antidepressant response
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Researchers have identified subtle genetic variations that predict the efficacy of two widely used antidepressant drugs. They found that certain variants in the gene for a protective transporter protein that pumps drugs and ...
Evolutionary phenomenon in mice may explain human infertility
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Scientists at the University of Liverpool have found that field mice have evolved a unique way of ensuring faster fertilisation, a phenomenon which could explain some cases of infertility in humans.
