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Relatives of boys with sexual birth defects not at risk for testicular germ cell cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Boys with the sexual birth defects known as hypospadias and cryptorchidism are at risk for developing testicular germ cell cancer, but their relatives are not, according to a new study published online December 21 in the ...


An undated photo shows then director of Sukhumi's monkey nursery, Sergei Ardzimba, feeding his monkeys

War-torn 'nursery' hopes to send monkeys to Mars

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 20, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (6) | comments 3

The monkeys at this run-down research centre which was once the pride of Soviet science have seen it all -- a brutal civil war, freezing winters and starvation.


Poisonous prehistoric 'raptor' discovered

Poisonous prehistoric 'raptor' discovered in China

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

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(PhysOrg.com) -- A group of University of Kansas researchers working with Chinese colleagues have discovered a venomous, birdlike raptor that thrived some 128 million years ago in China. This is the first ...


Bioengineered materials promote the growth of functional vasculature, new study shows

Bioengineered materials promote the growth of functional vasculature, new study shows

Medicine & Health / Research

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Regenerative medicine therapies often require the growth of functional, stable blood vessels at the site of an injury. Using synthetic polymers called hydrogels, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology ...


Graphene

Researcher Uses Graphene Quilts to Keep Things Cool

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of California, Riverside Professor of Electrical Engineering and Chair of Materials Science and Engineering Alexander Balandin is leading several projects to explore ways to use ...


Foot binding and a biological approach to the study of Chinese culture

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Exaptation is a familiar concept to evolutionary biologists. It's the basic idea explaining that a trait can evolve because it starts serving a different function. Think of birds: at first, the most important ...


Maine to consider cell phone cancer warning

Technology / Other

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(AP) -- A Maine legislator wants to make the state the first to require cell phones to carry warnings that they can cause brain cancer, although there is no consensus among scientists that they do and industry leaders dispute ...


Study: Sticking with heart rehab boosts survival

Medicine & Health / Research

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Medicare beneficiaries with heart disease who attended more cardiac rehabilitation sessions had fewer heart attacks and were less likely to die within four years than those who went to rehab less, researchers ...


MARES to provide comprehensive view of south Florida marine ecosystems

MARES to provide comprehensive view of south Florida marine ecosystems

Space & Earth / Environment

created 19 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

A new $1.5 million NOAA-funded project, MARES will provide a comprehensive view of south Florida marine ecosystems. This will be the first study to include human dimensions science and deliver guidance for ...


Machine Translates Thoughts into Speech in Real Time

Machine Translates Thoughts into Speech in Real Time

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created 15 hours ago | popularity 4.8 / 5 (24) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- By implanting an electrode into the brain of a person with locked-in syndrome, scientists have demonstrated how to wirelessly transmit neural signals to a speech synthesizer. The "thought-to-speech" ...



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