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Growing Shorter: Adult Health Habits Influence How Much We Shrink With Age
April 1, 2013 Even if you didn't eat your veggies or drink your milk as a child, your height is still in your hands. Using unique data from 17,708 adults, researchers show for the first time that lifestyle choices ... > full story -
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Heart Failure Medications Highly Cost-Effective, Study Finds
March 28, 2013 A new study shows that heart failure medications recommended by national guidelines are highly cost effective in saving lives and may also provide savings to the health care ... > full story -
Climate Models Are Not Good Enough, Researcher Argues
March 25, 2013 Only a few climate models were able to reproduce the observed changes in extreme precipitation in China over the last 50 ... > full story -
Amateur Parody Videos Can Make the Originals More Popular and Profitable
March 21, 2013 Amateur parody videos on YouTube can lead to increased views and popularity for the original, research has ... > full story -
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Sustainable Development Goals Must Sustain People and Planet, Experts Say
March 20, 2013 Scientists are arguing for a set of six Sustainable Development Goals that link poverty eradication to protection of Earth's life support. The researchers argue that in the face of increasing ... > full story -
Restoration and Recommendations for Flood-Damaged Bottomlands
March 20, 2013 Although the 2012 drought in the Midwest may have dimmed the memories for some of the 2011 Ohio and Mississippi River flood, engineers, landowners, conservationists, crop scientists and soil ... > full story -
'Lessons from Abroad' on Caring for a Graying Population
March 20, 2013 In Norway, families receive public support that enables them to care for aging parents in their own homes and keep them out of nursing homes. This includes a salary for a son or daughter to provide ... > full story -
'Networked Minds' Require Fundamentally New Kind of Economics
March 20, 2013 In their computer simulations of human evolution, scientists have discovered the emergence of the “homo socialis” with “other-regarding” preferences. The results explain some ... > full story -
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Transportation Study Reveals Potential for Deep Cuts to Petroleum Use and Carbon Emissions
March 19, 2013 Scientists have completed an assessment of avenues to reach deep cuts in petroleum use and greenhouse gas emissions in the transportation ... > full story -
Conservationists Call for Radical Change to ‘war on Poaching’
March 18, 2013 Widespread extinction of highly endangered and valued species will occur without a radical change to the way the wildlife trade is being handled across the world, according to conservation ... > full story
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