Middle school students who were part of a unique science learning program developed by The University of Texas School of Public Health showed significant increases in interest and achievement scores compared to other students, ...
Social Sciences
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The forests of the Pacific Northwest hold significant potential to increase carbon storage and help mitigate greenhouse gas emissions in coming years, a recent study concludes, if they are managed primarily for that purpose ...
Environment
Jul 2, 2009
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As childhood obesity rates continue to increase, experts agree that more information is needed about the implications of being overweight as a step toward reversing current trends. Now, a new University of ...
Social Sciences
Jul 2, 2009
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Deep beneath Lake Huron, signs of the Great Lakes' first human settlers are emerging.
Archaeology
Jul 2, 2009
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Software
Jul 2, 2009
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(AP) -- Television host Jay Leno has won control of a Web address using the name of his new show.
Internet
Jul 2, 2009
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Viruses can cost winegrowers an entire harvest. If they infest the grapevines, even pesticides are often no use. What's more, these chemicals are harmful to the environment. Researchers are growing plants that produce antibodies ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 2, 2009
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A new measurement system for the detection of whales is used for the first time on board of the research vessel Polarstern. Whales are usually difficult to spot. On the one hand, they spend the greater part of their life ...
Engineering
Jul 2, 2009
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Scientists are to study a group of proteins that are highly effective at killing bacteria and which could hold the key to developing new types of antibiotics.
Biotechnology
Jul 2, 2009
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As flowering plants like giant trees quickly rose to dominate plant communities during the Cretaceous period, the ferns that had preceded them hardly saw it as a disappointment.
Plants & Animals
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