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Saturday, November 7, 2009

Drunken Fruit Flies Help Scientists Find Potential Drug Target For Alcoholism

Drunken fruit flies have helped researchers identify networks of genes -- also present in humans -- that play a key role in alcohol drinking behavior. This discovery provides an indication of why some ...  > full story
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Computational Method Points To New Uses, Unexpected Side Effects Of Already Existing Drugs

Scientists have developed and experimentally tested a technique to predict new target diseases for existing drugs. The researchers developed a computational method ...  > full story
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Hormone That Affects Finger Length Key To Social Behavior

Research in the UK into the finger length of primate species has revealed that cooperative behavior is linked to exposure to hormone levels in the womb. ...  > full story
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Male Sabertoothed Cats Were Pussycats Compared To Macho Lions

Despite their fearsome fangs, male sabertoothed cats may have been less aggressive than many of their feline cousins, says a new study of male-female size differences in extinct big cats. ...  > full story
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Early Scents Really Do Get 'Etched' In The Brain

Common experience tells us that particular scents of childhood can leave quite an impression, for better or for worse. Now, researchers reporting the results of a brain imaging study show that first scents really do enjoy a ...  > full story
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Rapid Supernova Could Be New Class Of Exploding Star

Astronomers were looking through seven-year-old data when they chanced upon a very strange supernova that flashed and was gone in less than a month, when 3-4 months is typical. The unusually rapid supernova appears ...  > full story
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Map Of Human Bacterial Diversity Shows Wide Interpersonal Differences

Scientists have developed the first atlas of bacterial diversity across the human body, charting wide variations in microbe populations that live in different regions of the human body and ...  > full story
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Caught In The Act: Butterfly Mate Preference Shows How One Species Can Become Two

Breaking up may not be hard to do, say scientists who've found a population of tropical butterflies that may be splitting into two distinct species. The cause of this particular break-up? A shift ...  > full story
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Are The Alps Growing Or Shrinking?

The Alps are growing just as quickly in height as they are shrinking. This paradoxical result comes from a new study by a group of German and Swiss geoscientists. Due to glaciers and rivers, about exactly the same amount of ...  > full story
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Abiotic Synthesis Of Methane: New Evidence Supports 19th-Century Idea On Formation Of Oil And Gas

Scientists in Washington, D.C. are reporting laboratory evidence supporting the possibility that some of Earth's oil and natural gas may have formed in a way much ...  > full story
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