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Reducing roads could boost bear population

Reducing roads could boost bear population

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 30, 2008 | popularity 2.4 / 5 (8) | comments 9

Alberta's scant grizzly bear population could grow by up to five per cent a year if fewer logging roads are built in the animals' habitat, according to University of Alberta researchers.





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No change in brain tumor incidence during a time when cell phone usage increased

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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There was no substantial change in brain tumor incidence among adults 5 to 10 years after cell phone usage sharply increased, according to a new brief communication published online December 3 in the Journal of the National Ca ...


Study links real-time data to flu vaccine strategies

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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Adaptive vaccination strategies, based on age patterns of hospitalizations and deaths monitored in real-time during the early stages of a pandemic, outperform seasonal influenza vaccination allocation strategies, according ...


New software to simulate future financial crises

New software to simulate future financial crises

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Can economics better predict how banks will react to future credit crunches and their impact on the wider economy? Breakthrough simulation software by European researchers could hold the answers ...


Team using Subaru Telescope makes major discovery

Team using Subaru Telescope makes major discovery

Space & Earth / Astronomy

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An international team of scientists that includes an astronomer from Princeton University has made the first direct observation of a planet-like object orbiting a star similar to the sun.


New data show breakthrough microRNA-targeted therapy holds promise as new treatment for hepatitis C

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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A study published online in this week's Science shows that SPC3649, a breakthrough microRNA-targeted therapy developed by Santaris Pharma A/S, holds promise as a novel treatment for patients infected with the Hepatitis C viru ...


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By feeding the birds, you could change their evolutionary fate

Biology / Plants & Animals

created 17 hours ago | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 5

Feeding birds in winter is a most innocent human activity, but it can nonetheless have profound effects on the evolutionary future of a species, and those changes can be seen in the very near term. That's ...


Researchers Build Artificial Immune System to Solve Computational Problems

Researchers Build Artificial Immune System to Solve Computational Problems

Technology / Computer Sciences

created 19 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- By mimicking the way that a living body acquires immunity to disease through vaccination, researchers have designed an artificial immune system to solve optimization problems more effectively ...


Major impacts of climate change expected on mental health

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

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Leading mental health researchers are warning that some of the most important health consequences of climate change will be on mental health, yet this issue is unlikely to be given much attention at the UN climate change ...


Secondhand smoke exposure in childhood increases lung cancer risk later in life

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Children exposed to secondhand cigarette smoke have an increased risk of developing lung cancer in adulthood, even if they never smoked.


Sweden's wolf population is estimated to be between 182 and 217 animals

Sweden allows first wolf hunt in 45 years

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Sweden will this winter allow its first wolf hunt in 45 years following a decision by the Scandinavian country's parliament to limit their number, authorities said on Wednesday.



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