Archive: 08/29/2007
YouTube for scientists launched
A website being dubbed the YouTube for scientists has been launched, raising new hopes of bringing science closer to the people.
Aug 29, 2007 |
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Mothers' baby cradling habits are indicator of stress, suggests new research
Mothers who cradle their baby to their right hand side are displaying signs of extreme stress, a new study suggests. Although most mums feel stressed in the early stages of their baby’s life, the study by Durham University ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 29, 2007 |
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Purdue launches CAFO Web site
Purdue University has launched a Web site featuring scientific information about concentrated animal feeding operations.
Biology /
Aug 29, 2007 |
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Cancer treatment developed by patient
An Erie, Pa., leukemia patient, fed up with chemotherapy, developed technology that may one day be used to fight cancer.
Aug 29, 2007 |
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ZIP codes and property values predict obesity rates
Neighborhood property values predict local obesity rates better than education or incomes, according to a study from the University of Washington being published online this week by the journal Social Science and Medicine. For ea ...
Aug 29, 2007 |
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In matters of sex and death, men are an essential part of the equation
In a paper, to appear in the August 29 issue of the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE, Stanford scientists show that the standard practice of tracking only female life histories leads to mistaken conclusions about the ...
Biology /
Aug 29, 2007 |
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Low oxygen in coastal waters impairs fish reproduction
Low oxygen levels in coastal waters interfere with fish reproduction by disrupting the fishes’ hormones, a marine scientist from The University of Texas at Austin Marine Science Institute has found.
Aug 29, 2007 |
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'Mighty mice' made mightier
The Johns Hopkins scientist who first showed that the absence of the protein myostatin leads to oversized muscles in mice and men has now found a second protein, follistatin, whose overproduction in mice lacking ...
Biology /
Aug 29, 2007 |
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Physicists found formula for spiderman suit
Physicists have found the formula for a Spiderman suit. Only recently has man come to understand how spiders and geckos effortlessly scuttle up walls and hang from ceilings but it was doubted that this natural form of adhesion ...
Aug 29, 2007 |
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