Archive: 01/24/2007
Mud volcano in Java may continue to erupt for months and possibly years
The first scientific report into the causes and impact of Lusi, the Indonesian mud volcano, reveals that the 2006 eruption will continue to erupt and spew out between 7,000 and 150,000 cubic metres of mud a day for months, ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 24, 2007 |
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Antiretroviral resistance testing in HIV infected patients improves health and saves costs
During HIV treatment resistance mutations of the virus to antiretroviral drugs may occur and the treatment regimen become less effective. In the present study the authors compared the cost-effectiveness of genotypic antiretroviral ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jan 24, 2007 |
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Study provides first genetic evidence of long-lived African presence within Britain
New research has identified the first genetic evidence of Africans having lived amongst "indigenous" British people for centuries. Their descendants, living across the UK today, were unaware of their black ancestry.
Biology /
Jan 24, 2007 |
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Rodent sperm work together for better results
Although, sperm are inseminated in millions each sperm goes it alone. However, under some circumstances it might be advantageous for sperm to cooperate with one another. This is especially likely to be the case when females ...
Biology /
Jan 24, 2007 |
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The time it takes to reassemble the world
A few glimpses are enough to perceive a seamless and richly detailed visual world. But instead of "photographic snapshots”, information about the color, shape and motion of an object is pulled apart and sent ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 24, 2007 |
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Be afraid, be very afraid, if you learned to
A new study on rats has identified a part of the brain's cortex that controls learned but not innate fear responses.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 24, 2007 |
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How fishes conquered the ocean
Scientists at the University of Bergen, Norway have deduced how bony fishes conquered the oceans by duplicating their yolk-producing genes and filling their eggs with the water of life – the degradation of yolk proteins from ...
Biology /
Jan 24, 2007 |
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