Archive: 03/24/2009
Was Triceratops a social animal?
Until now, Triceratops was thought to be unusual among its ceratopsid relatives. While many ceratopsids—a common group of herbivorous dinosaurs that lived toward the end of the Cretaceous—have been found ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 24, 2009 |
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New guidelines will help detect and study counterfeit medicines
New guidelines proposed by a group of international experts will help better study the prevalence and geography of counterfeit and other poor quality medicines that threaten public health across the world. The guidelines—called ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Mar 24, 2009 |
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Financial advice causes 'off-loading' in the brain
A study using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) shows that expert advice may shut down areas of the brain responsible for decision-making processes, particularly when individuals are trying to evaluate a situation ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 24, 2009 |
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New data on cancer survival in Europe show more patients are cured
New data and analyses from a long-running study of cancer survival in Europe have shown that the number of people actually cured of cancer - rather than just surviving for at least five years after diagnosis - is rising steadily.
Mar 24, 2009 |
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Portuguese wave-power snake dead in the water
Opened in September as a world "first" in producing electricity from waves, a pioneering installation here is dead in the water having functioned for only a few weeks in a stormy process of research and development.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Mar 24, 2009 |
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Shuttle, station astronauts relax before parting
(AP) -- The astronauts aboard the linked shuttle-station complex are getting some time off before parting company.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 24, 2009 |
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Greek fisherman nets 2,200-year-old bronze statue
(AP) -- A Greek fisherman must have been expecting a monster of a catch when he brought up his nets in the Aegean Sea last week. Instead, Greek authorities say his haul was a section of a 2,200-year-old bronze ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 24, 2009 |
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Alaska braces for ashfall after volcano erupts
(AP) -- Rita Jackson said she was taking a sip of coffee when she tasted something funny on her lips - ash.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 24, 2009 |
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Fresh pot of tea strikes anti-cancer gold
Researchers might one day brew up a cancer treatment in their afternoon cuppa, says a study in a Royal Society of Chemistry journal.
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Mar 24, 2009 |
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Proteinuria during pre-eclampsia: A poor predictor of complications?
The estimation of levels of proteinuria in women with pre-eclampsia is not a clinically useful test to predict fetal or maternal outcomes. Researchers publishing in the open access journal BMC Medicine, present evidence that c ...
Mar 24, 2009 |
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Alzheimer's cost triple that of other elderly
(AP) -- The health care costs of Alzheimer's disease patients are more than triple those of other older people, and that doesn't even include the billions of hours of unpaid care from family members, a new report suggests.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 24, 2009 |
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