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Pseudoephedrine no boost to performance
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jun 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Many top-level cyclists may be putting their health at risk for no competitive gain by taking pseudoephedrine, according to new research.
Scientists discover new information on spreading of cancer
Jun 30, 2009 |
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A joint research group of VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and the University of Turku, led by Professor Johanna Ivaska, has discovered a mechanism lung cancer cells use when spreading into the body to form metastases.
Two is not company -- as far as fish are concerned
Jun 29, 2009 |
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Research at the Universities of Plymouth and Exeter has shown that fish kept alone or in small groups are more aggressive and exhibit fewer natural behaviors such as shoaling. Dr Katherine Sloman will discuss the findings ...
Biological warfare in bacteria offers hope for new antibiotics
Jul 02, 2009 |
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Scientists are to study a group of proteins that are highly effective at killing bacteria and which could hold the key to developing new types of antibiotics.
Mice run faster on high-grade oil
Jun 29, 2009 |
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Between the 1932 and 2008 Olympic Games, world record times of the men's 100m sprint improved by 0.6 seconds. Scientists at the Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology in Austria have shown that an equivalent improvement can ...
Doubts cast on credibility of some published clinical trials
Jul 02, 2009 |
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Randomised Controlled Trials (RCTs) are considered the 'gold standard' research method for assessing new medical treatments. But research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Trials shows that the design of a r ...
Sexist jokes favor the mental mechanisms that justify violence against women
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 02, 2009 |
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Sexist jokes (and all the variants of this kind of humour) favour the mental mechanisms which urge to violence and battering against women in individuals with macho attitudes. Those are the conclusions of a study carried ...
Forest service carves new experimental forest out of Tongass NF
Jul 02, 2009 |
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The USDA Forest Service established a new experimental forest in Alaska on June 25. The 25,000-acre Héen Latinee Experimental Forest is located inside the Tongass National Forest, and is easily accessible ...
Natural compound stops retinopathy
Jul 02, 2009 |
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Researchers at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center have found a way to use a natural compound to stop one of the leading causes of blindness in the United States. The research appears online ...
Key to evolutionary fitness: Cut the calories
Jul 01, 2009 |
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Charles Darwin and his contemporaries postulated that food consumption in birds and mammals was limited by resource levels, that is, animals would eat as much as they could while food was plentiful and produce as many offspring ...
When you don't know what you want
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 30, 2009 |
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How is it possible that you were not planning on going shopping, but that you still end up going and even return home with four new pairs of trousers?
Peer Behavior, Not Communication Overload, Determines Mobile Device Use in Meetings, Study Shows
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jul 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Organizational norms and social cues, not communication overload, are the strongest predictors of whether individuals use their laptops or smart phones to electronically multitask during a meeting, according ...
New control system of the body discovered
Jun 29, 2009 |
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It has been known for a long time that T cells can attack the body's own structures and, if they infiltrate the CNS, cause diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS). The T cells damage the myelin sheath, the material that ...
Scientists discover novel mechanism that increases colorectal cancer risk
Jun 29, 2009 |
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Finnish Academy Professors Lauri Aaltonen and Jussi Taipale have identified and described a mechanism whereby a single-base change in the human genome increases the risk of colorectal cancer.
Report: Worst may be over for US tech market
Jun 30, 2009 |
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(AP) -- As bad as the technology market fared in the first quarter of this year, the worst may be over, at least in the United States, Forrester Research said in a report Tuesday.
