Early sex may lead teens to delinquency, study shows
Feb 26, 2007 |
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Teens who start having sex significantly earlier than their peers also show higher rates of delinquency in later years, new research shows.
Creating new life forms that may help eradicate cancer affecting women
Feb 26, 2007 |
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Instead of using the usual cancer-fighting modalities, surgery, chemotherapy, or radiation, researchers from a drug development company called Advaxis, have embarked on a novel approach to fighting cancer: Engaging the immune ...
With a smart grid, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles could have system benefits
Feb 26, 2007 |
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Xcel Energy announced the results of a six-month study related to plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and how an increase in their popularity may affect Colorado. The study found that PHEVs may result in a reduction ...
Professor researches cell phone usage among college students
Feb 26, 2007 |
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Cell phones are commonplace fixture in United States culture these days, but a recent Virginia Tech survey reveals not only whom college students are talking to, but also for how long, and from where they converse.
Repressed memory is cultural creation
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 26, 2007 |
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Researchers at Harvard Medical School said the disorder known as repressed memory has a cultural rather than a scientific basis.
African carnage: One year's seized ivory likely came from 23,000 elephants
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Feb 26, 2007 |
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African elephants are being slaughtered for their ivory at a rate unprecedented since an international convention banning ivory trade took effect in 1989, a University of Washington biologist says.
Hallucinogenic herb a problem in Wash.
Feb 26, 2007 |
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Both Washington state and U.S. officials are growing increasingly concerned over the popularity of a legal hallucinogenic herb in the region around Seattle.
Sex hormone signaling helps burn calories
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Feb 26, 2007 |
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Any dieter can tell you: Body weight is a function of how much food you eat and how much energy you use. The trick to maintaining a healthy weight lies in regulating the balance. Now new research from Rockefeller ...
Mellow in Europe, crazy in America
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Feb 26, 2007 |
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Reed canarygrass is a bit like some people on vacation. At home, they stay on their side of the fence, and speak nicely with the neighbors. But jet them into Las Vegas and by week's end they are shoving other people out of ...
Scientists discover genes that can slow cell division and may fight cancer
Feb 26, 2007 |
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Cancer cells differ from normal cells in, among other things, the way they divide. When a normal cell complies with a signal telling it to divide, it also begins to activate a "braking system" that eventually stops cell division ...
How do marine turtles return to the same beach to lay their eggs?
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Feb 26, 2007 |
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Marine turtles almost always return to the same beach to lay their eggs. The egg-laying sites are often far from the feeding areas and the females cross several hundred kilometers of ocean with no visual landmarks. How do ...
Stunning view of Rosetta skimming past Mars
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 26, 2007 |
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This stunning view, showing portions of the Rosetta spacecraft with Mars in the background, was taken by the Rosetta Lander Imaging System (CIVA) on board Rosetta’s Philae lander just four minutes before the ...
Lost cuckoo breaks its silence
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Feb 26, 2007 |
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A team of biologists with the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) have recorded for the first time the call of the extremely rare Sumatran ground cuckoo, found only on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia.
Cosmic Vision 2015-2025: ready to launch
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 26, 2007 |
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Within a few weeks, ESA will invite the scientific community to propose the first missions for Cosmic Vision 2015-2025. The first medium-class mission should be launched in the 2016-2017 timeframe at the latest. ...
Colour sensor breath test can detect lung cancer
Feb 26, 2007 |
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A breath test can successfully pick up lung cancer with "moderate accuracy" even in the early stages, reveals research published ahead of print in Thorax.
