12 new species discovered in Brazil April 29, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Researchers discovered a legless lizard and a tiny woodpecker along with 12 other suspected new species in Brazil’s Cerrado, one of the world’s 34 biodiversity conservation hotspots. | |
Arsenic found in infant rice cereal May 01, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Researchers say one-third of infant rice cereal in Britain contains unsafe levels of arsenic. | |
Researchers pinpoint how smoking causes cancer May 13, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 18 vote(s)
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Oregon Health & Science University Cancer Institute researchers have pinpointed the protein that can lead to genetic changes that cause lung cancer. The research will be published Tuesday, May 12, in the British Journal ... | |
Compound has potential for new class of AIDS drugs May 14, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Researchers have developed what they believe is the first new mechanism in nearly 20 years for inhibiting a common target used to treat all HIV patients, which could eventually lead to a new class of AIDS drugs. | |
Chemical compound prevents cancer in lab May 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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While researching new ways to stop the progression of cancer, researchers at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, have discovered a compound that has shown to prevent cancer in the laboratory. The research appears ... | |
Study shows how 'horse tranquiliser' stops depression May 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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Researchers have shown exactly how the anaesthetic ketamine helps depression with images that show the orbitofrontal cortex – the part of the brain that is overactive in depression – being ‘switched off’. | |
Stressed seaweed contributes to cloudy coastal skies, study suggests May 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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Scientists at The University of Manchester have helped to identify that the presence of large amounts of seaweed in coastal areas can influence the climate. | |
Unraveling the Genomic Code for Development May 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Scientists at the California Institute of Technology have produced the first complete description of the complex network of genes that create a particular type of cell in an organism. | |
 Paranal receives new mirror April 17, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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A 4.1-metre diameter primary mirror, a vital part of the world's newest and fastest survey telescope, VISTA (the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy) has been delivered to its new mountaintop ... | |
Tree-lined streets mean lower rates of childhood asthma May 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Children who live in tree lined streets have lower rates of asthma, suggests research published ahead of print in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. | |
 Diatoms discovered to remove phosphorus from oceans May 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have discovered a new way that phosphorus is naturally removed from the oceans – its stored in diatoms. The discovery opens up a new realm of research into ... | |
Prions show their good side May 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Prions, the infamous agents behind mad cow disease and its human variation, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, also have a helpful side. According to new findings from Gerald Zamponi and colleagues, normally functioning prions prevent ... | |
 Computer game's high score could earn the Nobel Prize in medicine May 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 43 vote(s)
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Gamers have devoted countless years of collective brainpower to rescuing princesses or protecting the planet against alien invasions. This week researchers at the University of Washington will try to harness ... | |
 Female concave-eared frogs draw mates with ultrasonic calls May 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Most female frogs don’t call; most lack or have only rudimentary vocal cords. A typical female selects a mate from a chorus of males and then –silently – signals her beau. But the female concave-eared torrent ... | |
 Game Web site gets users to help make computers smarter May 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Carnegie Mellon University researchers hope Web surfers will spend their free time playing Internet-based games to help other people's and businesses' computers get smarter. | |
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