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First Draft Of The Pig: Researchers Sequence Swine Genome »
Posted by: myfairlady 1 week, 5 days ago in Science & Technology
A global collaborative has produced a first draft of the genome of a domesticated pig, an achievement that will lead to insights in agriculture, medicine ...
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Researchers Discover New Information On Spreading Of Cancer »
Posted by: myfairlady 4 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
A joint research group of VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and the University of Turku, led by Professor Johanna Ivaska, has discovered a mechanism ...
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Artificial Leaf Development »
Posted by: myfairlady 4 months ago in Science & Technology
An international team of researchers has modified chlorophyll from an alga so that it resembles the extremely efficient light antennae of bacteria. The team was ...
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South Africa's Rape Crisis: 1 in 4 Men Say They've Done It »
Posted by: Progressive 4 months, 3 weeks ago in Health & Fitness
South Africans received a horrifying measure of just how bad their country's rape crisis is with the release this week of a study in ...
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Caught on Video: Immune Cell Destroys Bacteria | LiveScience »
Posted by: Eagle_Eye 3 months, 2 weeks ago in Health & Fitness
In a starring role for E. coli, researchers have developed a new technique to make movies of bacteria as they infect their victims and are ...
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Researchers find way to make nearly carbon-free rice husk ash for concrete »
Posted by: Eagle_Eye 4 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
A new way of processing rice husks for use in concrete could lead to a boom in green construction.
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Infant Car Seats May Lower Oxygen Levels »
Posted by: amazingfind 2 months, 3 weeks ago in News
Leaving young infants in car seats for extended periods of time may result in low oxygen levels and put them at risk for breathing problems ...
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Snowcap vanishing from Mount Kilimanjaro - »
Posted by: Eagle_Eye 1 week, 6 days ago in Science & Technology
WASHINGTON - The snows of Kilimanjaro may soon be gone.
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The African mountain's white peak — made famous by writer Ernest Hemingway — is rapidly melting, researchers ...Read (54) | Share | Discuss (0) | Read Full Story at msnbc.msn.com
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Damage to bees' internal 'factories' may be behind decline in population »
Posted by: Eagle_Eye 2 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Researchers have a new clue to the collapse of honey bee colonies across the country — damage to the bees' internal "factories" that produce proteins.
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Did The Great Depression Have A Silver Lining? Life Expectancy Increased By 6.2 Years »
Posted by: myfairlady 1 month, 2 weeks ago in News
The Great Depression had a silver lining: during that hard time, US life expectancy actually increased by 6.2 years, according to a new study.
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A Drug That Could Give You Perfect Visual Memory »
Posted by: mafihotz 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
You would never have to ask for directions again. Now a group of scientists has isolated a protein that mega-boosts your ability to remember what ...
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First Image of a Memory Being Made »
Posted by: Progressive 4 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
For the first time, an image of a memory being made at the
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Vets? Mental Health Diagnoses Rising »
Posted by: Eagle_Eye 4 months ago in Health & Fitness
A new study has found that more than one-third of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans who enrolled in the veterans health system after 2001 received ...
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Study Links Cell Phone Use, Salivary Gland Cancer Increase »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 4 months ago in Science & Technology
Many studies have said that use of cell phones is perfectly safe. Then there are studies that link cell phones to cancer. In effect: depends ...
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Video Game Everquest 2 Provides New Way To Study Human Behavior »
Posted by: myfairlady 8 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Can researchers study the populations of online video games, like Everquest 2, just as they study traditional communities like Miami, Pittsburgh or Minneapolis? A research ...
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