African-American Canadians who receive kidney transplants fare better than those in US
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African American kidney disease patients in both Canada and the United States are less likely than Caucasian Americans to have access to kidney transplants, but only African-Americans in the United States have worse health ...
Eating Red Meat Sets Up Target for Disease-Causing Bacteria
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Offering another reason why eating red meat could be bad for you, an international research team, including University of California, San Diego School of Medicine professor Ajit Varki, M.D., has uncovered the first example ...
Metal hazard from table wines
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Potentially hazardous levels of metal ions are present in many commercially available wines. An analysis of reported levels of metals in wines from sixteen different countries, published in the open access Chemistry Central Jo ...
Digital projectors making grand entrance at movies
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Digital projectors should soon replace film on more than 20,000 of North America's 42,000 movie screens.
Study: Israelis have abandoned belief of peacefully integrating into the Middle East
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For decades, Israelis have sought to teach Arabs and Muslims that the existence of a Jewish state was a permanent fact of life. Israelis have thought that once Arab and Muslim belief in the state's permanence could be established, ...
Researcher discover fundamental processes behind nature's constant balancing act
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The natural world behaves a lot like the stock market, with periods of relative stability interspersed with dramatic swings in population size and competition between individuals and species.
Scientists Create New Robust Genetic Clock
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UC San Diego bioengineers have created the first stable, fast and programmable genetic clock that reliably keeps time by the blinking of fluorescent proteins inside E. coli cells. The clock's blink rate c ...
Facing fears early may reduce childhood anxiety
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Helping children face their fears may be more productive than focusing on other techniques to help them manage their anxieties, according to research presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent ...
Powered by olive stones? Turning waste stones into fuel
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Olive stones can be turned into bioethanol, a renewable fuel that can be produced from plant matter and used as an alternative to petrol or diesel. This gives the olive processing industry an opportunity to make valuable ...
MESSENGER Spacecraft Reveals More Hidden Territory on Mercury
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(PHysOrg.com) -- A NASA spacecraft gliding over the battered surface of Mercury for the second time this year has revealed more previously unseen real estate on the innermost planet. The probe also has produced ...
1,000 tags reveal mysteries of giant bluefin tuna
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A giant Atlantic bluefin tuna weighing more than half a ton had the honor of being fitted with the 1000th electronic tracking tag placed on this threatened species when it was caught and released on Monday ...
Phoenix Mars Mission Faces Survival Challenges
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In a race against time and the elements, engineers with NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander mission hope to extend the lander's survival by gradually shutting down some of its instruments and heaters, ...
Agricultural Chemicals Linked to Infections in a Declining Amphibian Species
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Amphibians around the world are on the decline from disease. In an article in this week's issue of the journal Nature, Jason Rohr of the University of South Florida (USF) and colleagues revealed ...
Understanding the 'Wow Factor'
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(PhysOrg.com) -- What links a neuroscientist with a social anthropologist and the UK’s premier independent art charity? The answer is the visual perception of art. When, why and how are individuals moved by a piece of art ...
A glacier's life
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
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EPFL researchers have developed a numerical model that can re-create the state of Switzerland's Rhône Glacier as it was in 1874 and predict its evolution until the year 2100. This is the longest period of time ever modeled ...
