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Scatological clues lead to an intimate view
Mar 04, 2009 |
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The guys were all stressed out. There were new infants in the community, and the guys knew from experience that that's when invaders were likely to come and kill the babies, particularly the male infants. ...
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Nice going, mom! Right whales break birth record
May 09, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Right whales have plenty to celebrate this Mother's Day - the sea moms gave birth to a record 39 calves this spring.
New study suggests winter babies face socioeconomic disadvantages
Jan 07, 2009 |
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Many of us may often feel that we've been born under an unlucky sign. Now, new research by a pair of University of Notre Dame economists suggests that some of us are, in fact, born in an unlucky season.
Risk of preterm birth appears to vary by season
Feb 05, 2007 |
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Women who become pregnant in spring are more vulnerable to preterm birth than those who conceive in other seasons, according to researchers at the University of Pittsburgh. Results of a large study of such seasonal variation ...
Grand prizes might help induce sports 'hot streaks'
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 17, 2009 |
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Dangling a lucrative financial carrot at the end of a professional sport season can cause certain players to exert the effort necessary to put together a string of successful performances, sometimes known in sporting circles ...
Fall babies: Born to wheeze?
Nov 21, 2008 |
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It is said that timing is everything, and that certainly appears to be true for autumn infants. Children who are born four months before the height of cold and flu season have a greater risk of developing childhood asthma ...
Falling birth rates shift rotavirus epidemics
Jul 16, 2009 |
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Fewer births in states such as California may be delaying the annual onset of a common intestinal virus in the southwest, according to epidemiologists. The timing of infectious outbreaks in other locations such as the northeast ...
It's a girl: Thai zoo says panda cub is doing well
May 28, 2009 |
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A one-day-old panda cub born in Thailand after years of artificial insemination and efforts to get its celibate parents to mate is a healthy female with a loud cry, a zoo official said Thursday.
It's a boy? Tropical Depression 18-E forms in the Eastern North Pacific
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 02, 2009 |
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At 11 a.m. EDT on October first, the eighteenth tropical depression of the Eastern Pacific hurricane season was born. He's a little guy, but is likely going to grow up to be a tropical storm and get the name ...
Dry season brings on measles in sub-Saharan Africa
Feb 06, 2008 |
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Measles epidemics in Niger fluctuate wildly from one season to another but the timing of the outbreaks always coincides with the end of the annual rainy season, according to an international team of researchers.
US gets a 'D' for preterm birth rate
Nov 17, 2009 |
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For the second consecutive year, the United States earned only a "D" on the March of Dimes Premature Birth Report Card, demonstrating that more than half a million of our nation's newborns didn't get the ...
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