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Calm before the spawn: Climate change and coral spawning

What's the point of setting up marine reserves to protect coral reefs from pollution, ship groundings and overfishing if climate change could cause far more damage? A study published this week in London in Proceedings of ...

Space & Earth / Environment

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Microsoft redesigns MSN, adds Twitter, Facebook

(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. is giving its MSN Web portal a long-overdue makeover and says it hopes the new site will funnel more people to Bing, the software maker's search engine.

Technology / Internet

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Scientists are first to 'unlock' the mystery of creating cultured pearls from the queen conch

For more than 25 years, all attempts at culturing pearls from the queen conch (Strombus gigas) have been unsuccessful—until now. For the first time, novel and proprietary seeding techniques to produce beaded ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

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Reduction in glycotoxins from heat-processing of foods reduces risk of chronic disease

Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine report that cutting back on the consumption of processed and fried foods, which are high in toxins called Advanced Glycation End products (AGEs), can reduce inflammation and ...

Medicine & Health / Health

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