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Owners should count calories for obese pets, consider several factors for good health

You might watch your daily calorie intake or glance over nutritional information on food packages, but do you do the same for your pet?

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1




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Were dinosaurs undergoing long-term decline before mass extinction?

Despite years of intensive research about the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs about 65.5 million years ago, a fundamental question remains: were dinosaurs already undergoing a long-term decline before an ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created May 01, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Evolution in an island, the secret for a longer life

ICP researchers published today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B one of the first fossil-based evidences supporting the evolutionary theory of ageing, which predicts that species evolving in low mo ...

Biology / Evolution

created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Drastic changes needed to curb N2O, most potent greenhouse gas: study

Meat consumption in the developed world needs to be cut by 50 per cent per person by 2050 if we are to meet the most aggressive strategy, set out by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), to reduce one of the ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 6

Identifying poverty levels requires accurate measurements

When food prices spiked in 2008, the number of households that moved into poverty was overestimated by about 60 percent, according to a recent University of Illinois study. In middle-income countries such as Mexico that have ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Feb 15, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Children at risk for ingestion of PAHs from pavement sealant, study finds

Children living near coal-tar-sealed pavement are likely to receive a far higher dose of carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from incidental ingestion of house dust than do children living near unsealed pavement, ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 13, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Anthropologists clarify link between Asians and early Native-Americans

A tiny mountainous region in southern Siberia may have been the genetic source of the earliest Native Americans, according to new research by a University of Pennsylvania-led team of anthropologists.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The disappearance of the elephant caused the rise of modern man 400,000 years ago

Elephants have long been known to be part of the Homo erectus diet. But the significance of this specific food source, in relation to both the survival of Homo erectus and the evolution of modern humans, has n ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (9) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Kilogramme faces quantum diet after weight problem

The guardians of the world's most important standards of weights and measures have turned to the weird universe of quantum physics to try to resolve a dilemma.

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 06, 2011 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (9) | comments 8

Urine could be the answer to cheaper electricity

(PhysOrg.com) -- Urine can be an abundant fuel for electricity generation, according to British scientists in the first study of its kind.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Nov 01, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (12) | comments 23 | with audio podcast

Crowdsourcing nutrition in a snap

Americans spend upwards of $40 billion a year on dieting advice and self-help books, but the first step in any healthy eating strategy is basic awareness -- what's on the plate.

Technology / Software

created Nov 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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