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Water treatments alone not enough to combat fluorosis in Ethiopia

Increased intake of dietary calcium may be key to addressing widespread dental health problems faced by millions of rural residents in Ethiopia's remote, poverty-stricken Main Rift Valley, according to a new Duke University-led ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

Researchers find a way to detect stealthy, 'hypervirulent' Salmonella strains

A recent discovery of "hypervirulent" Salmonella bacteria has given UC Santa Barbara researchers Michael Mahan and Douglas Heithoff a means to potentially prevent food poisoning outbreaks from these partic ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

In the final years of Franco's regime television acknowledged the republican's bravery

A study by the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) into the development of speech about the Civil War on Television Española (Spain's national state owned public television broadcaster) states that ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Vaccines to boost immunity where it counts, not just near shot site

Researchers at Duke University Medical Center have created synthetic nanoparticles that target lymph nodes and greatly boost vaccine responses, said lead author Ashley St. John, Ph.D., a researcher at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 22, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Plasma-based treatment goes viral

Life-threatening viruses such as HIV, SARS, hepatitis and influenza, could soon be combatted in an unusual manner as researchers have demonstrated the effectiveness of plasma for inactivating and preventing ...

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Eradicating cane toads with 'their own medicine'

Sydney University biologists have discovered cane toad tadpoles (Bufo marinus) communicate using chemicals excreted into the water, a finding that may help to impede the Cane Toad invasion of the Kimberley.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Foreign insects, diseases got into US

(AP) -- Dozens of foreign insects and plant diseases slipped undetected into the United States in the years after 9/11, when authorities were so focused on preventing another attack that they overlooked a ...

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Pentagon is investing in a greener military

Think your fuel bill is too high? Have a look at the U.S. military, which spent a whopping $13 billion on petroleum last year to keep its ships, planes and combat vehicles running.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Aug 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 4

How does microgravity affect astronauts?

Anyone over 40 knows firsthand the effects of gravity's constant downward pull on our faces and bodies. It is an immutable force that Einstein called a “curvature of space-time” -- but the curvature ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 04, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2

NASA sends phones, cells, spores and more to space on last shuttle

NASA's Ames Research Center will send a variety of life science experiments and technology demonstrations aboard the final space shuttle to better our understanding of how robots can help humans live and work in space and ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1


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