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Earliest Known Human TB Found In 9,000 Year-old Skeletons
The discovery of the earliest
known cases of human tuberculosis
in bones found submerged off the
coast of Israel shows that the
disease is 3000 years older than
previously thought. Direct
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World's Oldest Fossil Impression Of Flying Insect Discovered: Found In Suburban Strip Mall
While paleontologists may scour
remote, exotic places in search of
prehistoric specimens, Tufts
researchers have found what they
believe to be the world's oldest
... > full story
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New Evidence Provides An Alternative Route 'Out Of Africa' For Early Humans
The widely held belief that the
Nile valley was the most likely
route out of sub-Saharan Africa
for early modern humans 120,000
year ago is challenged. A new team
shows that wetter conditions
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Challenge To Discover Antarctica’s Hidden World
Later this month teams of
scientists, engineers, pilots and
support staff from British
Antarctic Survey (BAS), USA,
Germany, Australia, China and
Japan will join forces for one of
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Did Termites Help Katrina Destroy New Orleans Floodwalls And Levees?
A new article suggests that
Formosan subterranean termites
played a large role in the
destruction of floodwalls and
levees during Hurricane Katrina. ... > full story
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Targeting Space Debris Using Networks
How to deal with the
ever-increasing problem of space
debris, poses a major challenge
for space agencies, industry and
academia around the globe. Now,
research suggests a new technique
for identifying key pieces of
... > full story
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Lunar Prospecting Robot To Be Field Tested On Hawaii's Mauna Kea
The cool, rocky slopes of Mauna
Kea, a dormant volcano that is
Hawaii's highest mountain, will
serve as a stand-in for the moon
as researchers test a robot
designed for lunar prospecting. ... > full story
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Despite 'Peacenik' Reputation, Bonobos Hunt And Eat Other Primates, Too
Unlike the male-dominated
societies of their chimpanzee
relatives, bonobo society -- in
which females enjoy a higher
social status than males -- has a
"make-love-not-war" kind of image.
... > full story
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Playing Pinball With Atoms: How To Turn Nanotech Devices On And Off
With nanotechnology yielding a
burgeoning menagerie of
microscopic pumps, motors, and
other machines for potential use
in medicine and industry, here is
one good question: How will humans
... > full story
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Personal Music Players: Scientists Warn Of Health Risks From Exposure To Noise
Listening to personal music
players at a high volume over a
sustained period can lead to
permanent hearing damage,
according to an opinion of the
European Union Scientific
... > full story
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- Human TB Found In 9,000 Year-old Skeletons
- Oldest Fossil Impression Of Flying Insect
- Another Route Out Of Africa For Early Humans
- Challenge To Discover Antarctica’s Hidden World
- Did Termites Help Destroy New Orleans Levees?
- Targeting Space Debris Using Networks
- Lunar Prospecting Robot To Be Tested In Hawaii
- Bonobos Hunt And Eat Other Primates, Too
- Playing Pinball With Atoms: Nano On-Off Switch
- Personal Music Players: Too Much Noise?
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Vitamin B Does Not Slow Cognitive Decline In Alzheimer's, Study Finds
October 15, 2008 — A new clinical trial shows that high-dose vitamin B supplements did not slow the rate of cognitive decline in patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer ... > full story -
High Mortality Of Endangered Loggerhead Sea Turtles In Baja California
October 15, 2008 — Along the southern coast of Baja California, Mexico, scientists have been counting the carcasses of endangered sea turtles for a decade as part of an effort to assess and eliminate threats to ... > full story -
New Approach To Genetic Testing Could Halve Deaths From Inherited Bowel Cancer
October 15, 2008 — Changing the approach to genetic screening for cancers in Australia could effectively halve deaths caused by an inherited form of bowel cancer, says a University of Melbourne ... > full story -
More Flexible Method Floated To Produce Biofuels, Electricity
October 15, 2008 — Researchers are proposing a new "flexible" approach to producing alternative fuels, hydrogen and electricity from municipal solid wastes, agricultural wastes, forest residues and sewage sludge that ... > full story -
English Northerners' Hands Up To 3 Times Dirtier Than Those Living In England's South
October 15, 2008 — The further north you go in England, the more likely you are to have fecal bacteria on your hands, especially if you are a man, according to a preliminary study conducted by the London School of ... > full story
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Marijuana Use Takes Toll On Adolescent Brain Function, Research Finds
October 15, 2008 — Brain imaging shows that the brains of teens that use marijuana are working harder than the brains of their peers who abstain from the ... > full story -
Nanodiamond Drug Device Could Transform Cancer Treatment
October 15, 2008 — Researchers have developed a promising nanomaterial-based biomedical device that could be used to deliver chemotherapy drugs locally to sites where cancerous tumors have been surgically removed. The ... > full story -
Key Mechanism Regulating Neural Stem Cell Development Uncovered
October 15, 2008 — Scintists have discovered a novel mechanism that regulates how neural stem cells of the retina generate the appropriate cell type at the right time during normal development. These findings could ... > full story -
New Comet Discovered By Canadian Astronomer
October 15, 2008 — Rob Cardinal was looking for an asteroid, but ended up finding a comet. There is not much known yet about the Cardinal comet. Scientists are trying to determine more information about its orbit, ... > full story -
What Do You Know? Not As Much As You Think
October 15, 2008 — We've all met know-it-alls -- people who think they know more than they actually do. If they're talking about products, like wine or motorcycles, they might actually know as much as they think. But ... > full story
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Protein Made In Liver Restores Blood Glucose In Type 1 Diabetes Model
October 15, 2008 — A protein made by the liver in response to inflammation and used to treat patients suffering from a genetic form of emphysema has been shown to restore blood glucose levels in a mouse model of type 1 ... > full story -
Neurons In Zebrafish May Reveal Clues To The Wiring Of The Human Ear
October 15, 2008 — Developing neurons tend to play the field, making more connections than they will ever need. Then the weakest are cut. But scientists now show that neurons in young zebrafish -- vertebrates, like ... > full story -
Memory Improves If Neurons Are New
October 15, 2008 — The birth of new neurons (neurogenesis) does not end completely during development but continues throughout all life in two areas of the adult nervous system, i.e. subventricular zone and ... > full story -
Dramatically Extending Lifetime Of Organic Solar Cells
October 15, 2008 — Scientists have developed a method to stabilize the nanomorphology of organic solar cells resulting in a lifetime improvement of at least a factor 10. With these stabilized solar cells, efficiencies ... > full story -
Pajama Gamblers Could Lose Their Shirts: Online Gambling Can Be Dangerously Comfortable
October 15, 2008 — People who gamble from the comfort of their home tend to think they're more in control of their gambling than people who gamble in casinos, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer ... > full story
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Ancient Chinese Salad Plant Transformed Into New Cancer-killing Compound
October 15, 2008 — Researchers have updated a traditional Chinese medicine to create a compound that is more than 1,200 times more specific in killing certain kinds of cancer cells than currently available drugs, ... > full story -
Turning Freshwater Farm Ponds Into Crab Farms
October 15, 2008 — Biologist are working to grow and harvest blue crabs from freshwater ponds, instead of from the ... > full story -
Herbal Menopause Therapy A Good Fit For Breast Cancer Patients?
October 15, 2008 — When it comes to understanding the effectiveness and safety of using herbal therapies with other drugs, much is unknown. Now, a researcher will study how black cohosh -- an herbal supplement often ... > full story -
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Environmental ScienceSmart Solutions Reduce Carbon Dioxide Emissions
October 15, 2008 — Better house envelopes, more efficient energy supply systems, and use of biofuels for heating buildings would reduce carbon dioxide emissions in Europe. Buildings account for 36% of Sweden’s ... > full story -
Filling In The Blanks: Consumers Want Complete Information To Make Choices
October 15, 2008 — A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research examines the way consumers behave when information about a purchase is incomplete. The study suggests that there are ways for marketers to reduce the ... > full story
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Critical Genetic Link Found Between Human Taste Differences And Nicotine Dependence
October 15, 2008 — Researchers report that two interacting genes related to bitter taste sensitivity, TAS2R16 and TAS2R38, play an important role in a person's development of nicotine dependence and smoking behavior. ... > full story -
Surface Tension Drives Segregation Within Cell Mixtures
October 15, 2008 — What does a mixture of two different kinds of cells have in common with a mixture of oil and water? The same basic force causes both mixtures to separate into two distinct regions. That is the ... > full story -
Insight On Common Heart Rhythm Disorder
October 15, 2008 — Researchers have identified a gene variant that causes a potentially fatal human heart rhythm disorder called sinus node disease. While the newly discovered gene variant is rare, the study provides ... > full story -
Early-stage Gene Transcription Creates Access To DNA
October 15, 2008 — An international team of researchers, probing how a yeast cell senses its cellular environment and makes decisions about whether or not to express a gene, finds the process of transcribing non-coding ... > full story -
Landmark Study Links Sleep, Memory Problems In Elderly African-Americans
October 15, 2008 — A landmark study shows that African-American seniors who have trouble falling asleep are at higher risk of having memory problems -- raising the possibility that identifying and treating sleep ... > full story
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Discovery May Lead To Treatment For Neurodegenerative Diseases
October 14, 2008 — Over the past several decades, many laboratories have studied the communication between nerve cells and muscle fibers that are crucial to form and maintain neuromuscular synapses. Now, researchers ... > full story -
Bays On US Gulf Coast Vulnerable To Flooding
October 14, 2008 — The most comprehensive geological review ever undertaken of the upper US Gulf Coast suggests that a combination of rising seas and dammed rivers could flood large swaths of wetlands this century in ... > full story -
New Therapeutic Treatment Approach Improves Survival In Esophageal Cancer Patients
October 14, 2008 — A new study has found that a new therapeutic treatment, when delivered endoscopically and used in combination with chemotherapy and radiation therapy, improved survival rates in patients with locally ... > full story -
Time Of Day Influences Yield For Pharmacologically Stimulated Stem Cell Mobilization
October 14, 2008 — A new study uncovers a previously unrecognized, species-specific impact of circadian rhythms on the production of mobilized stem cells. The research suggests that when it comes to collecting human ... > full story -
How Are Children Choosing Their Food Portions?
October 14, 2008 — Researchers are trying to pinpoint the factors that affect how much food a child eats, to stave off unhealthy relationships with food later in ... > full story
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Why Sufferers From Alzheimer's Disease Might Have Lower Blood Pressure
October 14, 2008 — A new study proposes that some people suffering from Alzheimer's disease experience a reduction in their high blood pressure because of cognitive ... > full story -
How 'Sandfish' Swim: Could Help Materials Handling And Process Technology Specialists
October 14, 2008 — It moves as quickly in sand as a fish moves through water, which is why this lizard, a species of skink (Scincus scincus) that grows to about 15 cm long and lives in the deserts of North Africa and ... > full story -
New Risk Factor For Prostate Cancer
October 14, 2008 — The greater the levels of a protein called Insulin-like Growth Factor-1 (IGF-1), the greater the risk of prostate cancer, a new study has ... > full story -
Genome Of A Monkey-human Malaria Parasite
October 14, 2008 — Researchers have decoded the genome of a malaria parasite that infects humans and monkeys. Human infection with P. knowlesi was first reported just over 40 years ago. It is the fifth and emerging ... > full story -
When Seeing IS Believing
October 14, 2008 — New research published in the journal Science explains why individuals seek to find and impose order on an unruly world through superstition, rituals and conspiratorial explanations by linking a loss ... > full story
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Scientists Trigger Cancer-like Response From Embryonic Stem Cells
October 14, 2008 — Scientists have discovered a new control over embryonic stem cells' behavior. The researchers disrupted a natural bioelectrical mechanism within frog embryonic stem cells and trigged a cancer-like ... > full story -
Rising Arctic Storm Activity Sways Sea Ice, Climate
October 14, 2008 — A new NASA study shows that the rising frequency and intensity of arctic storms over the last half century, attributed to progressively warmer waters, directly provoked acceleration of the rate of ... > full story -
Noxious Gas Stove Emissions Worsen Asthma Symptoms In Young Children
October 14, 2008 — Scientists report that high levels of a noxious gas from stoves can be added to the list of indoor pollutants that aggravate asthma symptoms of inner-city children, especially ... > full story -
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October 14, 2008 — A navigation system able to provide emergency services with the quickest route while at the same time taking stress into account; this is an example of a new type of dialogue system just developed. ... > full story -
Soothing Music Reduces Stress, Anxiety And Depression During Pregnancy
October 14, 2008 — Music therapy can reduce psychological stress among pregnant women, according to research just published in a special complementary and alternative therapy medicine issue of the UK-based Journal of ... > full story
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Protein Made In Liver Restores Blood Glucose In Type 1 Diabetes Model
A protein made by the liver in response to inflammation and used to treat patients suffering from a genetic form of emphysema has been shown to restore blood glucose levels in a mouse model of type 1 ... > full story
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Marijuana Use Takes Toll On Adolescent Brain Function, Research Finds
Brain imaging shows that the brains of teens that use marijuana are working harder than the brains of their peers who abstain from the ... > full story
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How Are Children Choosing Their Food Portions?
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Neurons In Zebrafish May Reveal Clues To The Wiring Of The Human Ear
Developing neurons tend to play the field, making more connections than they will ever need. Then the weakest are cut. But scientists now show that neurons in young zebrafish -- vertebrates, like ... > full story
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Turning Freshwater Farm Ponds Into Crab Farms
Biologist are working to grow and harvest blue crabs from freshwater ponds, instead of from the ... > full story
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Archaeological Dig Uncovers Roman Mystery
Archaeologists have dug up a mystery worthy of Indiana Jones, one that includes a tomb, skeletons and burial rites with both Christian and pagan ... > full story
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New Comet Discovered By Canadian Astronomer
Rob Cardinal was looking for an asteroid, but ended up finding a comet. There is not much known yet about the Cardinal comet. Scientists are trying to determine more information about its orbit, ... > full story
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Nanodiamond Drug Device Could Transform Cancer Treatment
Researchers have developed a promising nanomaterial-based biomedical device that could be used to deliver chemotherapy drugs locally to sites where cancerous tumors have been surgically removed. The ... > full story
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Pajama Gamblers Could Lose Their Shirts: Online Gambling Can Be Dangerously Comfortable
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