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  Data on Financial Crime Is Not Credible, UK Research Finds

  December 13, 2012 — The UK Government and police efforts to tackle financial crime -- from business fraud to tax evasion -- are hampered by a lack of accurate data about the nature and extent of offending, according to ... > full story
• Infectious Diseases
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  Bugs Without Borders: Researchers Track the Emergence and Global Spread of Healthcare Associated Clostridium Difficile

  December 9, 2012 — Researchers show that the global epidemic of Clostridium difficile 027/NAP1/BI in the early to mid-2000s was caused by the spread of two different but highly related strains of the bacterium rather ... > full story
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  Study Raises Concerns Over Online Availability of Alternatives to Illegal Drugs

  December 6, 2012 — Recreational drug users may be putting their health at risk by ingesting products containing dangerous and often prohibited substances, purchased legally via the ... > full story
• Genes
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  My Microbes: New Genetic Fingerprint Lives in Your Gut

  December 5, 2012 — Our bodies contain far more microbial genes than human genes. And a new study suggests that just as human DNA varies from person to person, so too does the massive collection of microbial DNA in the ... > full story
• Extinction
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  Fox Invasion Threatens Wave of Extinction in Tasmania

  December 4, 2012 — The effort to stop the irreversible spread of foxes in Tasmania is at a critical stage with many native species at risk of extinction, new research ... > full story
• Endangered Plants
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  Corn: Many Active Genes -- High Yield

  December 3, 2012 — Hybrid plants provide much higher yield than their homozygous parents. Plant breeders have known this for more than 100 years and used this effect called heterosis for richer harvests. Until now, ... > full story
• Attention Deficit Disorder
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  Adults With ADHD Commit Fewer Crimes When on Medication

  November 22, 2012 — Criminal behaviour in people with ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) dropped sharply during periods when they were on medication, according to a new extensive registry ... > full story
• Educational Psychology
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  School Shootings Garner Headlines, but Bullying, Hate Crimes and Drug Use More Common

  November 19, 2012 — Statistically, school-age children run a greater risk of being injured or killed by someone they know than from a violent incident at school, but it’s school shootings that draw the most media ... > full story
• Quantum Computers
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  Beating the Dark Side of Quantum Computing

  November 16, 2012 — A future quantum computer will be able to carry out calculations billions of times faster than even today's most powerful machines by exploit the fact that the tiniest particles, molecules, atoms and ... > full story
• Archaeology
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  Science of the Search for Richard III

  November 15, 2012 — The complexity of tests being performed on Grey Friars skeleton mean answers will not come ... > full story

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