West African Ocean sediment core links monsoons to global climate evolution
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Monsoons, the life-giving, torrential rains of Asia and Africa, have an ancient, unsuspected connection to previous Ice Age climate cycles, according to scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and at Kiel ...
Common cancer gene sends death order to tiny killer
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Scientists at Johns Hopkins have discovered one way the p53 gene does what it's known for—stopping the colon cancer cells. Their report will be published in the June 8 issue of Molecular Cell.
The general public lacks basic medical knowledge
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The general public are worryingly ignorant about the symptoms and risk factors that contribute to serious medical conditions such as stroke and HIV/AIDS, according to a study published in the online open access journal BMC ...
Lessons from the orangutans: Upright walking may have begun in the trees
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By observing wild orangutans, a research team has found that walking on two legs may have arisen in relatively ancient, tree-dwelling apes, rather than in more recent human ancestors that had already descended ...
An 'elegant' idea proves its worth 25 years later
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The simple notion of copying the body’s own natural "waste disposal" chemistry to mop up potentially toxic nitrogen has saved an estimated 80 percent of patients with urea cycle disorders --- most of them children – according ...
Moths mimic sounds to survive
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In a night sky filled with hungry bats, good-tasting moths increase their chances of survival by mimicking the sounds of their bad-tasting cousins, according to a new Wake Forest University study.
Welsh medics to examine how surgery can cure diabetes
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Scientists at Swansea University’s School of Medicine have been awarded more than £93,000 by the BUPA Foundation to investigate why weight-reducing surgery can lead to the almost immediate disappearance of diabetes in patients.
NASA pondering a future grapple on the James Webb Space Telescope
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When it launches in 2013 the James Webb Space Telescope will settle in an orbit roughly one million miles from the Earth. That distance is currently too far for any astronaut or any other existing NASA servicing ...
Mercury's link to heart disease begins in blood vessel walls
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Heavy metals and other toxins have been linked to many human diseases, but determining exactly how they damage the body remains a mystery in many cases. New research focusing on a relatively obscure, misunderstood protein ...
Love still dominates pop song lyrics, but with raunchier language
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“Make love not war” may have been a popular slogan of the ’60s, but romance still figures prominently — and perhaps even more so — in today’s hit music, a new University of Florida study finds. The difference lies in the ...
Argonne Anti-Jet-Lag Diet helps summer travelers beat jet lag
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With the summer travel season beginning, many travelers are beating jet lag with the Anti-Jet-Lag Diet developed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory.
XMM-Newton deciphers the magnetic physics around forming stars
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In a special feature published this week, Astronomy & Astrophysics presents the first round of results from a large project conducted with XMM-Newton, the “XMM-Newton extended survey of the Taurus molecular cloud” (XEST). ...
Scientists discover 5 new species of sea slugs from the Tropical Eastern Pacific
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The Tropical Eastern Pacific, a discrete biogeographic region that has an extremely high rate of endemism among its marine organisms, continues to yield a wealth of never-before-described marine animals to ...
Students cut grass with robotic-controlled mower
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Cutting the lawn has taken on significant importance for a group of Wright State University students. The 11-member team is entered in the Fourth Annual Institute of Navigation (ION) Autonomous Lawnmower Competition hosted ...
More rib fractures, but better survival rates
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[B]Journal study tests trained and untrained adults in cardiopulmonary resuscitation[/B] New findings show that the majority of people untrained in how to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and even many trained eme ...
