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Stopping rape as an object of war

Stopping rape as an object of war

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

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(PhysOrg.com) -- It is a disturbing truth that sexual- and gender-based violence (SGBV) is used as a war tactic in developing nations. Silvia Dominguez, assistant professor of sociology at Northeastern University, ...


Keeping Mars Contained

Keeping Mars Contained

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

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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.


United Nations to probe climate e-mail leak (AP)

United Nations to probe climate e-mail leak

Space & Earth / Environment

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(AP) -- The United Nations will conduct its own investigation into e-mails leaked from a leading British climate science center in addition to the probe by the University of East Anglia, a senior U.N. climate ...


Chicken pox vaccine reduces shingles risk in kids -- study of 172,000 kids used EHRs

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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Herpes zoster, also known as shingles, is very rare among children who have been vaccinated against chicken pox, according to a Kaiser Permanente study in the December issue of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Journal.


Study shows US lags behind in transit safety programs for female riders

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study by UCLA professor Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris documents the gap between women's transit safety needs and programs in the U.S. that respond to them.


Nevada professor devises new childhood obesity screening tools

Nevada professor devises new childhood obesity screening tools

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A University of Nevada, Reno professor who thinks the present weight management charts and screening tools for children are too difficult to understand and use has devised new, simpler charts that pediatricians ...


Researchers identify gene that spurs deadly brain cancer

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researchers have identified a new factor that is necessary for the development of many forms of medulloblastoma, the most common type of malignant childhood brain cancer.


CSIRO researchers create giant waves

CSIRO researchers create giant waves -- virtually

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- CSIRO scientists have created 'rogue waves' more than 20 metres high and smashed them into virtual oil and gas production platforms to compare different mooring designs.


Carbon and oxygen in tree rings can reveal past climate information

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

The analysis of carbon and oxygen isotopes embedded in tree rings may shed new light on past climate events in the Mackenzie Delta region of northern Canada.


Researchers discover how a brain hormone controls insect metamorphosis

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A team of University of Minnesota researchers have discovered how PTTH, a hormone produced by the brain, controls the metamorphosis of juvenile insects into adults.



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