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Mass Loss Leaves Close-In Exoplanets Exposed to the Core

Mass Loss Leaves Close-In Exoplanets Exposed to the Core

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 21, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of scientists has found that giant exoplanets orbiting very close to their stars could lose a quarter of their mass during their lifetime. The team found that planets ...





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Greenland ice cap melting faster than ever

Greenland ice cap melting faster than ever

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (32) | comments 25

Satellite observations and a state-of-the art regional atmospheric model have independently confirmed that the Greenland ice sheet is loosing mass at an accelerating rate, reports a new study in Science.


Global glacier melt continues

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 29, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (20) | comments 8

Glaciers around the globe continue to melt at high rates. Tentative figures for the year 2007, of the World Glacier Monitoring Service at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, indicate a further loss of average ice thickness ...


Excessive weight loss can be a bad thing

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Doctors are not doing enough to pick up on problems with excessive weight loss, says a Saint Louis University physician who helped draft recent guidelines to diagnose the condition called "cachexia" (kuh-kex-ee-uh).


Depressed women can lose weight as successfully as others do

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Women with major depression were no less likely than were women without it to have successful results with a weight loss program, according to an article in the Winter 2009 Behavioral Medicine. Group Health Research Instit ...


The flash recovery of ammonoids after the most massive extinction of all time

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

After the End-Permian extinction 252.6 million years ago, ammonoids diversified and recovered 10 to 30 times faster than previous estimates.


Obesity contributes to rapid cartilage loss

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jul 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Obesity, among other factors, is strongly associated with an increased risk of rapid cartilage loss, according to a study published in the August issue of Radiology.


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West Antarctic ice sheet may not be losing ice as fast as once thought

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (10) | comments 4

New ground measurements made by the West Antarctic GPS Network (WAGN) project, composed of researchers from The University of Texas at Austin, The Ohio State University, and The University of Memphis, suggest ...


Cancer treatment may result in bone loss

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 13, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Montreal, November 13, 2008 – A new cross-Canada study has found that breast and prostate cancer treatment can foster bone loss. In the online edition of the Journal of Clinical Oncology, the scientists explain how loss o ...


Space-related radiation research could help reduce fractures in cancer survivors

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A research project looking for ways to reduce bone loss in astronauts may yield methods of improving the bone health of cancer patients undergoing radiation treatment.


Exenatide promotes weight loss when added to diet and exercise

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In combination with diet and exercise, the diabetes drug exenatide helped nondiabetic, obese individuals lose over three times more weight than those receiving a placebo, or dummy treatment, for 6 months.



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