Archive: 07/31/2007
American buffalo slaughter fueled by international trade
While the 19th century is surely one of the most inspirational periods in American history, it also bears witness to a less flattering record with regard to the environment: most significantly, the slaughter of the plains ...
Jul 31, 2007 |
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Why do people have sex? Researchers explore 237 reasons
Many scientists assume people have sex for simple and straightforward reasons such as to experience sexual pleasure or to reproduce, but new research at The University of Texas at Austin reveals hundreds of varied and complex ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 31, 2007 |
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Molecule with a Split Personality
If you take a strip of paper, twist one end by 180° and then stick the two ends together to form a ring, the result is called a Möbius strip, a geometric shape with only one surface and one edge.
Jul 31, 2007 |
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Reading ability protects brain from lead exposure
Lead smelter workers who are better readers have more protection against the effect of lead exposure on the brain than those who do not read as well, according to a study on the impact of cognitive reserve published in the ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jul 31, 2007 |
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Negative effects of plastic's additive blocked by nutrient supplements
Experiments in animals have provided additional and tantalizing evidence that what a pregnant mother eats can make her offspring more susceptible to disease later in life.
Jul 31, 2007 |
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Promising treatment target found in Hodgkin lymphoma
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute scientists have identified a protein that prevents the body's immune system from recognizing and attacking Hodgkin lymphoma cells. Based on this finding, the researchers are now investigating ...
Jul 31, 2007 |
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Disparities in infant mortality not related to race, study finds
The cause of low birth weights among African-American women has more to do with racism than with race, according to a report by an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Jul 31, 2007 |
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Hydrogen peroxide could cause absorbable sutures to come apart
Cleaning absorbable sutures with hydrogen peroxide dramatically decreases their tensile strength, researchers from UT Southwestern Medical Center have found.
Jul 31, 2007 |
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Screening MRI allows detection of more breast cancers in high-risk women
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) enables radiologists to accurately identify tumors missed by mammography and ultrasound, according to a multicenter study comparing the three screening methods in women at high-risk for breast ...
Jul 31, 2007 |
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Waters off Washington state only second place in world where glass sponge reefs found
Thirty miles west of Grays Harbor, University of Washington scientists have discovered large colonies of glass sponges thriving on the seafloor. The species of glass sponges capable of building reefs were ...
Biology /
Jul 31, 2007 |
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Artificial Nanopores Take Analyte Pulse
Resistive pulse sensing represents a very attractive method for identifying and quantifying biomedical species such as drugs, DNA, proteins, and viruses in solution.
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jul 31, 2007 |
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Hallucinations in schizophrenia linked to brain area that processes voices
For the first time, researchers using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have found both structural and functional abnormalities in specific brain regions of schizophrenic patients who experience chronic auditory hallucinations, ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jul 31, 2007 |
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