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Treatment of Mental Illness Lowers Arrest Rates, Saves Money
June 10, 2013 Research shows that outpatient treatment of mental illness significantly reduces arrest rates for people with mental health problems and saves taxpayers ... > full story -
Mice Give New Clues to Origins of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
June 10, 2013 Researchers have identified what they think may be a mechanism underlying the development of compulsive behaviors. The finding suggests possible approaches to treating or preventing certain ... > full story -
Self-Fertilizing Plants Contribute to Their Own Demise
June 10, 2013 Many plants are self-fertilizing, meaning they act as both mother and father to their own seeds. This strategy -- known as selfing -- guarantees reproduction but, over time, leads to reduced ... > full story -
Leakage of Carbon from Land to Rivers, Lakes, Estuaries and Coastal Regions Revealed
June 10, 2013 When carbon is emitted by human activities into the atmosphere it is generally thought that about half remains in the atmosphere and the remainder is stored in the oceans and on land. New research ... > full story -
Catching Individual Molecules in a Million With Optical Antennas Inside Nano-Boxes
June 10, 2013 Detecting one individual biomolecule amongst millions of other neighboring molecules has been technically impossible until now. Scientists have now devised the smallest optical device capable of ... > full story -
British Butterfly Desperate for Warm Weather This Summer
June 10, 2013 Butterflies are extremely sensitive to changes in temperature, and new research has revealed that when summer weather turns bad the silver-spotted skipper battles for ... > full story -
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How Archaea Might Find Their Food: Sensor Protein Characterized
June 10, 2013 Delicious dimethyl sulphide. The microorganism Methanosarcina acetivorans lives off everything it can metabolize into methane. How it finds its sources of energy, is not yet clear. Scientists have ... > full story -
Discovery May Lead to New Treatments for Jaundice
June 10, 2013 Helping to protect newborns and older patients against more severe effects of jaundice is the hope of researchers who have shown how a liver enzyme protects cells from damage caused by the condition. ... > full story -
Potentially 'Catastrophic' Changes Underway in Canada's Northern Mackenzie River Basin
June 10, 2013 Canada's Mackenzie River basin -- among the world's most important major ecosystems -- is poorly studied, inadequately monitored, and at serious risk due to climate change and resource exploitation, ... > full story -
New Theory Proposes Solution to Long-Running Debate as to How Stable the Earth System Is
June 10, 2013 Researchers have proposed an answer to the long-running debate as to how stable the Earth system is. Earth, with its core-driven magnetic field, oceans of liquid water, dynamic climate and abundant ... > full story
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