Iberian wolves prefer wild roe deer to domestic animals
A Spanish researcher has analysed the preferences of wolves from the north east of the Iberian Peninsula to demonstrate that, in reality, their favourite prey are roe deer, deer and wild boar, ahead of domestic ...
Oct 23, 2009 |
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Wiretapping Skype calls: virus eavesdrops on VoIP
(AP) -- Some computer viruses have a crude but scary ability to spy on people by logging every keystroke they type. Now hackers and potentially law enforcement have another weapon: a virus that can eavesdrop on voice conversations ...
Sep 02, 2009 |
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'Phishing' drops; are scammers switching tactics?
(AP) -- Internet criminals might be rethinking a favorite scam for stealing people's personal information.
Aug 26, 2009 |
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Veterinarians using stem cells to treat animals
(AP) -- Lucy the Labradoodle scoots along the ground to grab a bone.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Aug 10, 2009 |
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Trojan horse for ovarian cancer -- nanoparticles turn immune system soldiers against tumor cells
In a feat of trickery, Dartmouth Medical School immunologists have devised a Trojan horse to help overcome ovarian cancer, unleashing a surprise killer in the surroundings of a hard-to-treat tumor.
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jul 15, 2009 |
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Small company working toward what could be a breakthrough: a drug that kills only cancer cells
Maybe Hugh McTavish wasn't so tough after all. Seven years ago, doctors told McTavish he needed chemotherapy to treat his non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. McTavish, then a 40-year-old patent attorney, was young and fit, so he asked ...
Jul 08, 2009 |
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Hi-tech 'Trojan horse' can kill cancer cells: researchers
Australian researchers are set to begin human trials of a tiny nano-cell that acts as a "Trojan horse" against cancer cells, a breakthrough they say may curb the need for debilitating chemotherapy.
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jun 29, 2009 |
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Fossil teeth of browsing horse found in Panama Canal earthworks
Rushing to salvage fossils from the Panama Canal earthworks, Aldo Rincon, paleontology intern at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, unearthed a set of fossil teeth. Bruce J. MacFadden, curator of ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jun 08, 2009 |
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Federal agency spurs people to adopt wild horses
(AP) -- A federal agency is hoping older wild mustangs rounded up from the range will find new homes with a program that will offer stipends to owners who adopt them.
Apr 24, 2009 |
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Mystery about domestication of horse has been unravelled -- now location and time are proofed
Wild horses were domesticated in the Ponto-Caspian steppe region (today Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Romania) in the 3rd millennium B.C. Despite the pivotal role horses have played in the history of human societies, the process ...
Apr 23, 2009 |
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Minimizing the spread of deadly Hendra virus
(PhysOrg.com) -- Groundbreaking CSIRO research into how the deadly Hendra virus spreads promises to save the lives of both horses and humans in the future.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 15, 2009 |
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Minimising the spread of deadly Hendra virus
(PhysOrg.com) -- CSIRO Livestock Industries' scientists working at the Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL), in Geelong Victoria, have made a major breakthrough in better understanding how Hendra spreads ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 31, 2009 |
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Climate change fears for deadly virus outbreaks in livestock
Global warming could have chilling consequences for European livestock, warned Professor Peter Mertens from the Institute for Animal Health, at this week's meeting of the Society for General Microbiology in Harrogate.
Mar 31, 2009 |
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Young dinosaurs roamed together, died together (w/Video)
A herd of young birdlike dinosaurs met their death on the muddy margins of a lake some 90 million years ago, according to a team of Chinese and American paleontologists that excavated the site in the Gobi ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 16, 2009 |
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Archaeologists find earliest known domestic horses
(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of archaeologists has uncovered the earliest known evidence of horses being domesticated by humans. The discovery suggests that horses were both ridden and milked. The ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 05, 2009 |
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