Archive: 02/17/2008
Health effects of pesticide mixtures: Unexpected insights from the salmon brain
In his research, scientist Nat Scholz examines how pesticides that run off the land and mix in rivers and streams combine to have a greater than expected toxic effect on the salmon nervous system. These pesticides are widely ...
Biology /
Feb 17, 2008 |
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Physicists say there's an urgent need for nuclear detectives
A terrorist nuclear explosion devastates Manhattan, but no group takes credit. The pressure on the U.S. president to retaliate is intense. Acting on sketchy information, the president orders an attack, but it turns out to ...
Feb 17, 2008 |
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Bioethicist: mental illness is subject to biological and sociocultural factors
Biology is crucial to understanding psychosis, “but there is more to psychosis than mere biology,” says Jason Robert, an Arizona State University bioethicist and philosopher of science.
Feb 17, 2008 |
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Valuing ocean services in the Gulf of Maine -- New approaches for conflict resolution
Michael Fogarty, a NOAA biologist, says interactions among species, the effects of climate change, and the effects of human impacts such as harvesting are among the factors that need to be considered in moving toward an ecosystem-based ...
Biology /
Feb 17, 2008 |
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MIT expert: How to toughen up environmental treaties
The Kyoto Protocol is one of more than 100 global environmental treaties negotiated over the past 40 years to address pollution, fisheries management, ocean dumping and other problems. But according to MIT Professor Lawrence ...
Feb 17, 2008 |
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Expert: AI computers by 2020
A U.S. computer expert predicts computers will have the same intellectual capacity as humans by 2020.
Technology / Computer Sciences
Feb 17, 2008 |
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