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NASA considers sending a telescope to outer solar system

Light pollution in our inner solar system, from both the nearby glow of the Sun and the hazy zodiacal glow from dust ground up in the asteroid belt, has long stymied cosmologists looking for a clearer take ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 30

The earliest stars in the Universe

(PhysOrg.com) -- Matter in the universe after the big bang consisted almost entirely of hydrogen and helium atoms. Only later, after undergoing fusion reactions in the nuclear furnaces of stars, did these ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 15 | with audio podcast

Gene hunters find cause of rare movement disorder

(Medical Xpress) -- After a challenging two-decade hunt, scientists have pinpointed the gene responsible for a rare disease that causes seizures in infancy and sudden, uncontrollable movements in adolescence and early adulthood.

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Dec 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Inhaled glucocorticoids during pregnancy and offspring pediatric diseases

Inhaled glucocorticoids for the treatment of asthma during pregnancy are not associated with an increased risk of most diseases in offspring, but may be a risk factor for endocrine and metabolic disturbances, according to ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Young adults drop exercise with move to college or university: researchers

Regular exercise tends to steeply decline among youth as they move to university or college, according to a study by researchers at McMaster University.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Endangered orangutans offer a new evolutionary model for early humans

Starving orangutans in Borneo may be teaching us new lessons about human evolution.

Biology / Evolution

created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

New model suggests early humans lost fur after developing bipedalism

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two of the most basic questions in the study of human evolution revolve around why early people started walking around on two feet instead of four and why they lost their fur, especially in ...

Biology / Evolution

created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

15 new conservation concerns

A review carried out by a group of international specialists has identified several emerging issues that are likely to damage biodiversity in the coming years.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Study: Bone drug boosts breast cancer survival

(AP) -- Doctors were mostly hoping to prevent complications and relapses when they gave young women a medicine to keep their bones strong during breast cancer treatment. Seven years later, they found it did more than that: ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Hospital gives first tomosynthesis mammograms in region this week

There is still a one in eight lifetime risk that a woman will develop breast cancer, and the best tool against the disease remains early detection. Now, Women & infants Hospital of Rhode Island has taken the breast cancer ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The big picture: Long-term imaging reveals intriguing patterns of human brain maturation

Neuroimaging has provided fascinating insight into the dynamic nature of human brain maturation. However, most studies of developmental changes in brain anatomy have considered individual locations in relative isolation from ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Depressive symptoms and intimate partner violence in the 12 months after childbirth

Forty percent of women who report depressive symptoms following birth also reported intimate partner violence finds a new study published today (7 December) in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A mother's touch may protect against drug cravings later

An attentive, nurturing mother may be able to help her children better resist the temptations of drug use later in life, according to a study in rats conducted by Duke University and the University of Adelaide in Australia.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Still in the dark about dark matter

Dark matter, the mysterious stuff thought to make up about 80 percent of matter in the universe, has become even more inscrutable.

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (13) | comments 67

Young women may reduce heart disease risk eating fish with omega 3 fatty acids

Young women may reduce their risk of developing cardiovascular disease simply by eating more fish rich in omega-3 fatty acids, researchers reported in Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association.

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast