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NASA Outlines Recent Breakthroughs in Greenhouse Gas Research

NASA Outlines Recent Breakthroughs in Greenhouse Gas Research (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created 19 hours ago | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers studying carbon dioxide, a leading greenhouse gas and a key driver of global climate change, now have a new tool at their disposal: daily global measurements of carbon dioxide ...


World's first skeletal mount of Paluxysaurus jonesi reveals new biology

World's first skeletal mount of Paluxysaurus jonesi reveals new biology

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created 22 hours ago | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Early Cretaceous sauropod Paluxysaurus jonesi weighed 20 tons, was 60 feet long and had a neck 26 feet long, according to scientists who prepared the world's first full skeletal mount ...


Controlling key enzyme in brain offers clue for future obesity treatment

Controlling key enzyme in brain offers clue for future obesity treatment

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

The Sirt1 enzyme in the body has generated enormous attention as a possible secret to living longer. Some scientists believe that fasting and drinking wine appear to aid in this quest because both likely activate ...


Killer cookies: To resist temptation, exaggerate the threat

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Your ability to resist that tempting cookie depends on how a big a threat you perceive it to be, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research.


California's troubled waters: Satellite-based findings reveal major groundwater loss in Central Valley

California's troubled waters: Satellite-based findings reveal major groundwater loss in Central Valley (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New space observations reveal that since October 2003, the aquifers for California's primary agricultural region - the Central Valley - and its major mountain water source - the Sierra Nevada - have lost nearly ...


Study finds racial disparities exist in radiation therapy rates for early stage breast cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Black women are less likely than white women to receive radiation therapy after a lumpectomy, the standard of care for early stage breast cancer, according to a new study by researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson ...


Study questions true favorability of rare breast cancer type

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In a large review of breast cancer patients with mucinous carcinoma, researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center have identified an association between this rare type of breast cancer long-associated ...


Science not faked, but not pretty (AP)

Science not faked, but not pretty

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 12, 2009 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (52) | comments 69

(AP) -- E-mails stolen from climate scientists show they stonewalled skeptics and discussed hiding data - but the messages don't support claims that the science of global warming was faked, according to an ...


Novel detection method unmasks circulating breast cancer cells

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Circulating metastatic breast cancer cells can lose their epithelial receptors, a process that enables them to travel through the bloodstream undetected, according to research from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer ...


Study shows how gene action may lead to diabetes prevention, cure

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 2

A gene commonly studied by cancer researchers has been linked to the metabolic inflammation that leads to diabetes.



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