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'Angry' extroverts should do best in the ring
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Boxers are renowned for upping the ante by trading slurs and insults at pre-fight weigh-ins or press conferences - but research by sports psychologists suggests that the role goes beyond showmanship. If effectively ...
Overweight men at higher risk of heart attack, stroke, premature death
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Overweight or obese middle-aged men are at a higher risk of heart attack, stroke and premature death — even if they don’t have the metabolic syndrome, according to research reported in Circulation: Journal of ...
New Method Tests Severity of Key Citrus Virus
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new rapid way to test severity of the devastating citrus tristeza virus (CTV) in citrus trees has been developed by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists in Parlier, Calif. The ...
Pressure rises to stop antibiotics in agriculture
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(AP) -- The mystery started the day farmer Russ Kremer got between a jealous boar and a sow in heat.
Schizophrenia mouse model should improve understanding and treatment of the disorder
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Scientists have created what appears to be a schizophrenic mouse by reducing the inhibition of brain cells involved in complex reasoning and decisions about appropriate social behavior.
Couple stranded 3 days after GPS leads them astray
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(AP) -- A Nevada couple letting their SUV's navigation system guide them through the high desert of Eastern Oregon got stuck in snow for three days when the GPS unit sent them down a remote forest road.
Molecular chaperone keeps bacterial proteins from slow-dancing to destruction
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Just like teenagers at a prom, proteins are tended by chaperones whose job it is to prevent unwanted interactions among immature clients. And at the molecular level, just as at the high school gym level, it's a job that usually ...
AT&T temporarily halts online iPhone sales in NYC
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(AP) -- AT&T Inc. suspended online sales of iPhones to New Yorkers over the weekend for unknown reasons, then abruptly started selling them again just as mysteriously on Monday.
Student sleuths using DNA reveal zoo of 95 species in NYC homes -- and new evidence of food fraud
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Two New York City high school students exploring their homes using the latest high-tech DNA analysis techniques were astonished to discover a veritable zoo of 95 animal species surrounding them, in everything ...
Couples are better able to cope with health shocks than singles: study
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
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Marital status plays a significant role in how individuals cope economically with disability and health shocks, according to a working paper by University of British Columbia economists Giovanni Gallipoli and Laura Turner.
One step closer to closure: Neuroscientists discovery key to spinal cord defects
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
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Spinal cord disorders like spina bifida arise during early development when future spinal cord cells growing in a flat layer fail to roll up into a tube. In the Dec. 6 issue of Nature Cell Biology, researchers from the Jo ...
Cassini Spacecraft to Monitor North Pole on Titan
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Though there are no plans to investigate whether Saturn's moon Titan has a Santa Claus, NASA's Cassini will zoom close to Titan's north pole this weekend.
Drug-resistant urinary tract infections spreading worldwide
Dec 28, 2009 |
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A sudden worldwide increase in an antibiotic-resistant bacterium is cause for concern, according to a review in f1000 Medicine Reports.
Researchers find clues to why some continue to eat when full
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 28, 2009 |
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The premise that hunger makes food look more appealing is a widely held belief - just ask those who cruise grocery store aisles on an empty stomach, only to go home with a full basket and an empty wallet.
More than 20 whales die in mass beaching in New Zealand
Dec 27, 2009 |
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More than 20 pilot whales died in a mass beaching in New Zealand Sunday while another 40 were successfully herded back to sea, conservation officials said.
