News tagged with late
Prevent tomato late blight next growing season
Oct 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Across the northeast, home gardeners expecting the usual bumper crop of tomatoes this season were dismayed to find their plants affected by late blight, the same fungus that caused Ireland's potato famine ...
Steppe change: Mammoths roamed southern Spain
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Jul 09, 2009 |
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Remains of woolly mammoths have been found in southern Spain, proving that the chilly grip of the last Ice Age extended farther south than thought, palaeontologists said on Thursday.
Arctic climate under greenhouse conditions in the Late Cretaceous
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Jul 09, 2009 |
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New evidence for ice-free summers with intermittent winter sea ice in the Arctic Ocean during the Late Cretaceous - a period of greenhouse conditions - gives a glimpse of how the Arctic is likely to respond ...
Physicists Propose Method for Entangling Moving Material Particles
Jan 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When physicists experiment with quantum entanglement, they usually work with photons, the intangible particles of light. In the past few years, however, scientists have begun to broaden their ...
Late preterm births present serious risks to newborns
Dec 11, 2008 |
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More than half a million babies are born preterm in the United States each year, and preterm births are on the rise. Late preterm births, or births that occur between 34 and 36 weeks (approximately 4 to 6 weeks before the ...
Late Neanderthals and modern human contact in southeastern Iberia
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Dec 09, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It is widely accepted that Upper Paleolithic early modern humans spread westward across Europe about 42,000 years ago, displacing and absorbing Neanderthal populations in the process. However, ...
Past gains in reducing risk of heart disease have flattened, women especially affected
Nov 11, 2008 |
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The positive U.S. health trend documented over the past 30 years of reduction in risk for heart disease is not as strong as is widely perceived - and, in fact, the trend has flattened, according to a new analysis of national ...
Adult crime linked to childhood anxiety
Nov 03, 2008 |
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Being nervous, socially isolated, anxious or neurotic during childhood protects young men from becoming criminal offenders until they enter adulthood, but the protective effect seems to wear off after the age of 21. These ...
Scientist Uses Tracer to Predict Ancient Ocean Circulation
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Oct 20, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Even though the Cretaceous Period ended more than 65 million years ago, clues remain about how the ocean water circulated at that time. Measuring a chemical tracer in samples of ancient fish scales, bones ...
Drier, warmer springs in US Southwest stem from human-caused changes in winds
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Aug 19, 2008 |
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Human-driven changes in the westerly winds are bringing hotter and drier springs to the American Southwest, according to new research from The University of Arizona in Tucson.
