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Public recognition may be key to giving
Mar 04, 2006 |
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German researchers found that people are more likely to work toward common goals when well-informed and when they receive public recognition.
Sugar cereals are 'Smart Choices'? FDA not so sure
Oct 21, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Ever wondered how that "Smart Choices" sticker wound up on the front of Froot Loops or Cocoa Puffs?
First comprehensive 'inventory' of life in Antarctica
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Dec 01, 2008 |
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The first comprehensive "inventory" of sea and land animals around a group of Antarctic islands reveals a region that is rich in biodiversity and has more species than the Galapagos. The study provides an important benchmark ...
Food and drug agency to study greater openness
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jun 02, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The government's food and drug regulators want to open their files to the public.
Polar Sea Ice replicated in Hamburg
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As northern Europe enjoys a rather warm start to autumn, an international team of 20 polar scientists have brought icy winter conditions to the middle of Hamburg, Germany. They are studying the effect of ...
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Shaking the Fundamentals of Physics: At the Limits of the Photoelectric Effect
Apr 24, 2009 |
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With extremely short wavelengths and very high intensities, light-matter interaction seems to be different than previously accepted.
Longer-duration psychotherapy appears more beneficial for treatment of complex mental disorders
Sep 30, 2008 |
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Psychodynamic psychotherapy lasting for at least a year is effective and superior to shorter-term therapy for patients with complex mental disorders such as personality and chronic mental disorders, according to a meta-analysis ...
Obama focuses on food safety, picks FDA new chief
Mar 14, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The nation's food safety system is a "hazard to public health" and overdue for an overhaul, President Barack Obama said Saturday as he filled the top job at the Food and Drug Administration.
Long-term hormone replacement therapy increases breast cancer risk
May 28, 2008 |
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Now there is proof for women in Germany, too: If hormone replacement therapy is taken over a period of more than five years, the risk of breast cancer will increase. While this risk is considerably elevated during use of ...
Moving molecules within molecules
May 29, 2008 |
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Experts in the field of nanoscience have discovered a way of controlling the motion and detecting the forces that move molecules within molecules.
'Hidden' Van Gogh painting revealed
Jul 30, 2008 |
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A new technique allows pictures which were later painted over to be revealed once more. An international research team, including members from Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands) and the University ...
New FDA chiefs stress science, better food safety
May 26, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The huge salmonella outbreak from peanut butter represented a failure of the Food and Drug Administration, that agency's new chiefs declared Tuesday - one they hope to fix.
Germany unveils world's largest weather supercomputer
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 10, 2009 |
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Germany Thursday unveiled the world's most powerful weather supercomputer that scientists hope will provide critical data on global warming for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Observing the Quantum Hall Effect in 'Real' Space
Jan 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When water transforms into steam, or magnetized iron changes to demagnetized iron, Katsushi Hashimoto explains to PhysOrg.com, a phase transition is taking place: “Classical phase transitions…often share ...
On the trail of polar lows
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 12, 2008 |
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This has made it possible to determine, for the first time, the frequency of such polar lows in the past.
