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Not enough vitamin D in the diet could mean too much fat on adolescents

Not enough vitamin D in the diet could mean too much fat on adolescents

Medicine & Health / Research

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Too little vitamin D could be bad for more than your bones; it may also lead to fatter adolescents, researchers say.


Study points to 1 cause of higher rates of transplanted kidney rejection in blacks

Medicine & Health / Other

created Aug 29, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A Johns Hopkins research team reports it may have an explanation for at least some of the higher organ rejection rates seen among black - as compared to white - kidney transplant recipients. In a study of 50 healthy adult ...


Researchers study hidden homicide trend

Other Sciences / Other

created Jun 26, 2008 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Gun-related homicide among young men rose sharply in the United States in recent years even though the nation's overall homicide rate remained flat, according to a study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School ...





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Racial disparities reduced in injury related mortality

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 16, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

When it comes to injury-related deaths, the gap between black and white American youths is narrowing, according to a study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The study found that between ...


Not 1, but 2 kinds of males found in the invasive round goby

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 15, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Scientists have found the existence of two types of males of a fiercely invasive fish spreading through the Great Lakes, which may provide answers as to how they rapidly reproduce.


Young Black-Footed Ferret

Black-footed ferrets sired by males that died 8 years ago

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created Sep 02, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Two black-footed ferrets at the Smithsonian's National Zoo have each given birth to a kit that was sired by males who died in 1999 and 2000. These endangered ferrets—part of a multi-institutional breeding ...


Study catches two bird populations as they split into seperate species

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 14, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 2

A new study finds that a change in a single gene has sent two closely related bird populations on their way to becoming two distinct species. The study, published in the August issue of the American Naturalist, is one of ...


Study finds that hunters are depleting lion and cougar populations

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sport hunters are depleting lion and cougar populations as managers respond to demands to control predators that threaten livestock and humans, according to a study published in the June 17 issue of PLoS ONE. The study was le ...


Prawnography shows captive bred prawns lack lust

Biology / Plants & Animals

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

A Queensland University of Technology researcher has filmed hours of prawn "sex tapes" to find out why prawns bred in captivity did not go on to breed well.


A new parasite has been discovered in black green lizards from the Iberian Peninsula

A new parasite has been discovered in black green lizards from the Iberian Peninsula

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 03, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

An international team of scientists has discovered a new acarine species (Ophionyssus schreibericolus) that lives off black green lizards from the Iberian Peninsula. This involves the first recording of the O ...


Male Australian redback spiders employ courtship strategies to preserve their life

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research shows that male suitors of a female cannibalistic spider risk facing a premature death unless they perform an adequate courtship lasting a minimum of 100 minutes. Further, the research shows ...


The kids most likely to go armed

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created Jul 28, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

A new analysis of a 2005 survey of American schoolchildren has identified factors that may be used to help improve school safety. The research, published in BioMed Central's open access journal Annals of General Psychiatry, gives ...


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If you flaunt it, you've got it: how red-heads top the pecking order

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created Jan 01, 2006 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Red-headed finches dominate their black-headed and yellow-headed peers by physical aggression and by the mere fact of being red-headed, according to research published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society.



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