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Passage Grave 'Nordenhoj'

Passage graves from an astronomical perspective

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 18, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Passage graves are mysterious barrows from the Stone Age. New research from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen indicates that the Stone Age graves' orientation in the landscape could ...





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Researchers find new way to attack inflammation in Graves' eye disease

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A small group of patients with severe Graves' eye disease experienced rapid improvement of their symptoms — and improved vision — following treatment with the drug rituximab. Inflammation around their eyes and damage to the ...


Hospital infections cost $1 billion in lost bed days

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Infections caught in hospital are costing the Australian healthcare system more than 850,000 lost bed days, according to a new study by Queensland University of Technology.


Australian first: Kangaroo genome mapped

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created Nov 18, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Australian researchers will today launch the world first detailed map of the kangaroo genome, completing the first phase of the kangaroo genomics project.


Intact ancient tomb uncovered in Bethlehem (AP)

Intact ancient tomb uncovered in Bethlehem

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created Jun 23, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(AP) -- Workers renovating a house in the traditional town of Jesus' birth accidentally discovered an untouched ancient tomb containing clay pots, plates, beads and the bones of two humans, a Palestinian ...


Diabetes weakens your bones

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Current research suggests that the inflammatory molecule TNF-α may contribute to delayed bone fracture healing in diabetics. The related report by Alblowi et al, "High Levels of TNF-α Contribute to Accelerated ...


A new method for bone-marrow-derived liver stem cells isolation and proliferation

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created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Great interest has been aroused in the identification and isolation of liver stem cells from bone marrow cells. Several subsets of bone marrow cells have been found to have the potential to differentiate into hepatocytes, ...


Unstated assumptions color Arctic sovereignty claims

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 28, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Settling the growing debate over ownership of Arctic Ocean resources is complicated by the fact that the various countries involved have different understandings of the geography of the place.


World's earliest nuclear family found

World's earliest nuclear family found

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 17, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 0

The researchers dated remains from four multiple burials discovered in Germany in 2005. The 4,600-year-old graves contained groups of adults and children buried facing each other – an unusual practice in Neolithic ...


Arctic sea ice annual freeze-up underway

Arctic sea ice annual freeze-up underway

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 03, 2008 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (11) | comments 17

After reaching the second-lowest extent ever recorded last month, sea ice in the Arctic has begun to refreeze in the face of autumn temperatures, closing both the Northern Sea Route and the direct route through ...


Sediment Core

RV Polarstern on its way to East Siberian Sea

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 21, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Bremerhaven, August 19th 2008. German research vessel Polarstern, operated by the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association, transits the Northwest Passage for the ...



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