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Plants prefer their kin, crowd out competition from strangers

Plants prefer their kin, crowd out competition from strangers

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Plants don't mind sharing space with their kin but when they're potted with strangers of the same species they start invigorating their leaves, a study by McMaster University reveals.


Seniors must use it or lose it, study shows

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Doris Stinson has learned that it's never too late to start exercising. The 85-year-old Stoney Creek woman has regained her strength and maintained her independence after enrolling in Hamilton-based physical ...


Managing doctors' practices made easier with new software

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A McMaster University-led research team has developed an innovative software tool that gives family doctors up-to-date information on their patients in two seconds or less.


Tiny injector to speed development of new, safer, cheaper drugs

Tiny injector to speed development of new, safer, cheaper drugs

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

It's no bigger than a stamp packet but it has the potential to allow rapid development of a new generation of drugs and genetic engineering organisms, and to better control in-vitro fertilization.


Oral contraceptives may benefit women with asthma

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New research shows that during natural menstrual cycles, women with asthma who were not taking oral contraceptives (OC) had lower exhaled nitric oxide levels (eNO), a marker of airway inflammation associated with asthma, ...


Research highlights need to address hemophilia in developing world

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

When modern medicine finds a way to treat a medical condition, people often think that the problem is solved. But we also have to find ways to get that treatment into the hands of those who need it. For example, new research ...


Turn On, Tune In, Develop?

Turn On, Tune In, Develop? Researchers Examine How Brain Benefits From Musical Training

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 4

For most people music is an enjoyable, although momentary, form of entertainment. But for those who seriously practiced a musical instrument when they were young, perhaps when they played in a school orchestra ...


UK University to probe integrity of climate data

Space & Earth / Environment

created 23 hours ago | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 5

(AP) -- A British university said Thursday it would investigate whether scientists at its prestigious Climatic Research Unit fudged data on global warming.


More competitors, less competition

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created 23 hours ago | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The larger the number of examinees, the lower the average grade. This is one of the findings of a series of new studies carried out by scientists at the University of Haifa and the University of Michigan. "It is a well-established ...


Study reveals the paths of Ontario secondary students to their post-secondary destinations

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created 23 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new study by researchers at Queen's University looking at the transitions young people make from secondary school to university, college, apprenticeship and the workplace found that over 60 percent of first-year college ...



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