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CDC warns: Holiday could bring more swine flu (AP)

CDC warns: Holiday could bring more swine flu

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created 7 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Let us give thanks - and pass the Purell. Your family might be sharing more than turkey and pumpkin pie this Thanksgiving. Swine flu may also be on the table - and at crowded airports and shopping ...


Probing Question: What is a heritage turkey?

Probing Question: What is a heritage turkey?

Biology / Other

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Over 45 million turkeys are eaten by Americans each Thanksgiving, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Hunters provide some -- last autumn, about 24,000 wild turkeys were harvested ...


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Modern Turkey: Modern Miracle

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Many of us will sit down with our families to a wonderful turkey dinner this Thanksgiving. But statistics increasingly show that Americans consider turkey a year-round staple.


How fish is cooked affects heart-health benefits of omega-3 fatty acids

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (10) | comments 1

If you eat fish to gain the heart-health benefits of its omega-3 fatty acids, baked or boiled fish is better than fried, salted or dried, according to research presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions ...


Canadians finding it tough to shake the salt habit

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Canadians know that too much salt isn't good for their diets, but half still continue to shake it on, according to a new study by University of Alberta researchers.


Vaccines on horizon for AIDS, Alzheimer's, herpes (AP)

Vaccines on horizon for AIDS, Alzheimer's, herpes

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(AP) -- Malaria. Tuberculosis. Alzheimer's disease. AIDS. Pandemic flu. Genital herpes. Urinary tract infections. Grass allergies. Traveler's diarrhea. You name it, the pharmaceutical industry is working ...


Salmon migration mystery explored on Idaho's Clearwater River

Salmon migration mystery explored on Idaho's Clearwater River

Biology / Ecology

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- Temperature differences and slow-moving water at the confluence of the Clearwater and Snake rivers in Idaho might delay the migration of threatened juvenile salmon and allow them to grow larger ...


Cryptographic voting debuts

Cryptographic voting debuts

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Last week, in Takoma Park, Md., a new cryptographic voting system that could ensure accurate vote counts was used for the first time in a real election. MIT’s Ron Rivest, the Viterbi Professor ...


Europe and America couldn't be more different, right? Not so fast, says historian

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Marshalling data on everything from colon cancer to the accuracy of public clocks, Peter Baldwin illustrates how differences between the U.S. and Western Europe are much smaller than commonly supposed.


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Elephant seals take naps while diving

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study may have solved the long-standing question of how elephants sleep during their long migrations at sea, when they can be away from land for up to eight months.



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