Archive: 05/02/2007
Hubble finds multiple stellar 'baby booms' in a globular cluster
New observations by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have overturned conventional ideas about the early life of some massive globular clusters, showing that they can go through several periods of intense ...
May 02, 2007 |
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New Evidence for the 'Solar Oxygen Crisis'
Scientists have published new evidence supporting the recent discovery that the Sun contains about half as much oxygen as previously thought, an issue some scientists have dubbed the solar oxygen crisis. This ...
May 02, 2007 |
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Climate change a threat to Indonesian agriculture, study says
Rice farming in Indonesia is greatly affected by short-term climate variability and could be harmed significantly by long-term climate change, according to a new study by researchers at Stanford University, ...
May 02, 2007 |
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Does amateur boxing cause brain damage?
Blows to the head in amateur boxing appear to cause brain damage, according to research that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology’s 59th Annual Meeting in Boston, April 28 – May 5, 2007.
May 02, 2007 |
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'Personality-gene' makes songbirds curious
Whether you are an anxious type, or a fearless person - such individual differences in personality could be partly due to the genes you carry. In humans, it is hard to prove the existence of such "personality ...
Biology /
May 02, 2007 |
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Spouse may 'drive you to drink' but also can protect you from alcohol
Men and women at risk for alcohol dependence are more likely to choose a mate who also is at risk, say investigators at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. That doesn't necessarily mean, however, that both ...
May 02, 2007 |
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Cat hair at home poses an allergy risk, particularly for young children
The study published by Chih-Mei Chen et al. in the May edition of the distinguished Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology did not approve earlier papers, according to which contact with cat allergens during the first ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
May 02, 2007 |
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Scientists watch on the atomic level how individual molecules recognize each other
The body is an almost perfect machine. For it to function properly, each individual component, that is each molecule, must reliably fulfill its specific function. Each molecule must thus “recognize” other molecules and work ...
May 02, 2007 |
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Legal ruling may put endangered species in danger
Ecologists and philosophers across the nation are protesting a new and narrowed definition of "endangered species."
Biology /
May 02, 2007 |
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