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Why Don’t More Animals Change Their Sex

Biology /

created Feb 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Most animals, like humans, have separate sexes — they are born, live out their lives and reproduce as one sex or the other. However, some animals live as one sex in part of their lifetime and then switch ...





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Sunscreen makes good economic sense

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created 1hour ago | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Applying sunscreen on a regular basis not only prevents cancer, but will save the government money.


A challenge to improve Nuclear Magnetic Resonance for structural biology

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created 2 hours ago | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In structural biology, the only technique available to predict the three dimensional structure of large complex molecules in solution, such as proteins and DNA, is NMR spectroscopy. To catalyze improvements ...


Osteoarthritis increases aggregate health care expenditures by $186 billion annually

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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Osteoarthritis (OA), a highly prevalent disease, raised aggregate annual medical care expenditures in the U.S. by $185.5 billion according to researchers from Stony Brook University. Insurers footed $149.4 billion of the ...


Spinons -- confined like quarks

Physics / General Physics

created 19 hours ago | popularity 4.5 / 5 (12) | comments 0

The concept of confinement is one of the central ideas in modern physics. The most famous example is that of quarks which bind together to form protons and neutrons. Now Prof. Bella Lake from Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (Germany) ...


Rat pack: Scientists warming up to African rodent (AP)

Rat pack: Scientists warming up to African rodent

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(AP) -- Naked mole rats don't get cancer. They shrug off brushes with acid and age so well, some are older than the college-aged researchers handling them.


Understanding the pros and cons of health overhaul (AP)

Understanding the pros and cons of health overhaul

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Maybe you've been reading the health care bill in your spare time. Then perhaps you can answer this question:


New radar helps monitor site of century-old tragedy

New radar helps monitor site of century-old tragedy

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Alberta researcher has turned the site of a southern Alberta rockslide tragedy into the proving ground for new equipment meant to avert such a disaster in the future.


Nuclear science to fight sleeping sickness

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The International Atomic Energy Agency on Friday announced an agreement to help African nations battle the tsetse fly, the main carrier of parasites that causes sleeping sickness with its bites.


A costly diagnosis: Alzheimer's disease takes toll on memories, and money too

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Alzheimer's disease takes a devastating emotional toll on families but it also is one of the most expensive conditions to treat because of its progressive nature, requiring increasing assistance with eating, bathing and other ...


Food banks go high-tech to feed the hungry (AP)

Food banks go high-tech to feed the hungry

Technology / Hi Tech

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Food banks across the country are undergoing a high-tech revolution, adopting sophisticated databases, bar coding, GPS tracking, automated warehouses and other technologies used in the food industry ...



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