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Swine flu toll includes a few pets (AP)

Swine flu toll includes a few pets

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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(AP) -- A handful of pets have been sickened with swine flu in recent weeks, but here are doctors' orders: Wash your hands and don't panic.


Superior offspring without genetic modification

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created 14 hours ago | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

We don't always turn out like our parents. Sometimes we become even better. How this happens is the subject of a new research project at the University of Gothenburg.


New technology helps scientists understand ancient fossils

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Some of the world's oldest human bones and other ancient relics are studied here using some of the world's newest technologies.


Childhood traumas linger as health risk factors for adults

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Research from the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London has found that negative experiences in childhood may alter not only mental health but also physical health, into middle age and beyond.


Brain scans show distinctive patterns in people with generalized anxiety disorder

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scrambled connections between the part of the brain that processes fear and emotion and other brain regions could be the hallmark of a common anxiety disorder, according to a new study from the Stanford University School ...


Playing favorites: Parents still involved after children are grown

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Middle-aged parents are more involved in their grown children's lives than ever, according to new research from Purdue University.


Delinquent boys at increased risk of premature death and disability by middle age

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Men who have a history of delinquency in childhood are more likely to die or become disabled by the time they are 48, and not just from the obvious consequences of antisocial behaviour, new research indicates.


The last best chance: UN climate conference opens (AP)

The last best chance: UN climate conference opens

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 1.7 / 5 (6) | comments 8

(AP) -- The largest and most important U.N. climate change conference in history opened Monday, with organizers warning diplomats from 192 nations that this could be the last best chance for a deal to protect ...


Archaeological study of ostrich eggshell beads collected from SDG site

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Ostrich eggshell (OES) beads from SDG site reflect primordial art and a kind of symbolic behavior of modern humans. Two different manufacturing pathways are usually used in the manufacture of OES beads in Upper Paleolithic. ...


192 nations at UN climate conference in Copenhagen (AP)

192 nations at UN climate conference in Copenhagen

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (4) | comments 4

(AP) -- The largest and most important U.N. climate change conference in history opened Monday, with organizers warning diplomats from 192 nations that this could be the best, last chance for a deal to protect ...


Wolf recovery at crossroads in the Southwest (AP)

Wolf recovery at crossroads in the Southwest

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 06, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(AP) -- A decade has passed since the federal government began releasing Mexican wolves into the wild in an effort to return the endangered animal to its historic range in the Southwest. It hasn't worked ...


Yahoo! and Microsoft announced that they have finalized the details of their planned search and advertising partnership

Microsoft, Yahoo take next step in search alliance

Technology / Internet

created Dec 05, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. have signed off on their plan to team up against Google Inc. in the lucrative Internet search market.


Keeping Mars Contained

Keeping Mars Contained

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

When robotic spacecraft bring a sample of Mars back to Earth, scientists will need specially-designed facilities to study the samples and prevent them from escaping to the outside world.


NASA Challenges 350 Rocketeers Nationwide to Aim a Mile High

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA has invited more than 350 student rocketeers from middle schools, high schools, colleges and universities -- 37 teams nationwide -- to take part in the 2009-2010 NASA Student Launch Projects.


Risk of blood clot after surgery higher and lasts longer than previously thought

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The risk of having a potentially fatal blood clot after surgery is higher and lasts for longer than had previously been thought, concludes new research published in the British Medical Journal today.