Heat-tolerant Coral Reefs Discovered: May Survive Global Warming
Experts say that more than half of the world's coral reefs could disappear in the next 50 years, in large part because of higher ocean temperatures caused by climate change. But now scientists have found evidence that some coral reefs are adapting and...
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General Science | Friday May 22
Cell Phone Viruses Pose Serious Threat, Scientists Warn
If you own a computer, chances are you have experienced the aftermath of a nasty virus at some point. In contrast, there have been no major outbreaks of mobile phone viral infection, despite the fact that over 80 percent of Americans now use these...
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General Science | Friday May 22
Pathogen Insecurity and Bio WMD
Marc Ostfield is the Senior Advisor for Bioterrorism, Biodefense, and Health Security, US Department of State, Office of International Health and Biodefense in Washington DC and believes that the concept of biosecurity as a primary strategy to combat...
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General Science | Friday May 22
Weight Loss In Old Age May Signal Dementia
A new study shows that older people who are thinner or are losing weight quickly are at a higher risk of developing dementia, especially if they started out overweight or obese.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/FhWHZZywPKo"...
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General Science | Friday May 22
How Embryo Movement Stimulates Joint Formation
A new study uncovers a molecular mechanism that explains why joints fail to develop in embryos with paralyzed limbs. The research answers a longstanding question about the influence of muscle activity on developing joints and underscores the critical...
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General Science | Friday May 22
Fundamental Mechanism For Cell Organization Discovered
Scientists have discovered that cells use a very simple phase transition -- similar to water vapor condensing into dew -- to assemble and localize subcellular structures that are involved in formation of the embryo.img...
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General Science | Friday May 22
Risk Of Facial Fractures In Motor Vehicle Crashes Decreasing
Facial fractures from motor vehicle crashes appear to be decreasing, most likely due to design improvements in newer vehicles, according to a new article.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/hJF_B9SvRCY" height="1" width="1"/
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General Science | Friday May 22
DNA Deletion Makes Swedish Chlamydia 'Invisible'
Scientists are aiming to improve the diagnosis of chlamydia, the most common cause of sexually transmitted infection globally. Researchers investigated a genetic deletion that matches the region targeted by the most widely used diagnostic tests,...
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General Science | Friday May 22
Police Radar For Measuring Speeding Cars Improved
Two speed measuring devices used by the law enforcement community -- the down-the-road radar with which officers enforce automobile speed limits and the ballistic chronograph which tracks the velocity of bullets during testing of protective equipment...
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General Science | Friday May 22
How The Body Differentiates Between A Burn And A Cut
You can tell without looking whether you've been stuck by a pin or burnt by a match. But how? In research that overturns conventional wisdom, scientists have shown that this sensory discrimination begins in the skin at the very earliest stages of...
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General Science | Friday May 22
Glutamine Supplements Show Promise In Treating Stomach Ulcers
The amino acid glutamine, found in many foods as well as in dietary supplements, may prove beneficial in offsetting gastric damage caused by H. pylori infection.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/FXn6lYRanA8" height="1" width="1"/
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General Science | Friday May 22
Wings That Waggle Could Cut Aircraft Emissions By 20%
Wings which redirect air to waggle sideways could cut airline fuel bills by 20% according to new research.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/tqiyxarAJp8" height="1" width="1"/
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General Science | Friday May 22
Anti-inflammatory Effect Of 'Rotten Eggs' Gas
Researchers have synthesized a new molecule which releases hydrogen sulfide -- the gas that gives rotten eggs their characteristic smell and which has recently been found to be produced naturally in the body -- and discovered that it could in time lead...
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General Science | Friday May 22
Early Identification Of Dementia Increasingly Difficult
If grandma seems to forget things, will she end up demented? These days, memory loss is one of the very few symptoms that may signal which 70-year-olds risk developing dementia.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/wdq4fHJqY0U"...
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General Science | Friday May 22
Biofilms As River Sentinels
Researchers in Lyon decided to use the reaction of a group of micro-organisms to the presence of toxic molecules in evaluating the ecological status of a river and thus develop bioindicators based not on species identification, but on their functions...
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General Science | Friday May 22
Biologists Call For Network Of Protected Rivers
Scientists have used the Guadiana River basin, in which 92% of the species are under threat, as a reference point to measure the loss of aquatic biodiversity and its conservation value. A new study reveals that the state of fragmentation of Iberian...
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General Science | Friday May 22
Giant Balloon Flying High Over Atlantic To Catch Cosmic Rays
A giant balloon, taller than a football field, is now flying at the edge of space to collect data on cosmic rays -- the most super-charged particles in the universe.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/gXdAZTs-4hA" height="1"...
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General Science | Friday May 22
Safe For Passengers With Lung Disease To Travel By Air, Study Suggests
Oxygen levels while flying are substantially less than at ground level. Current guidelines for in-flight oxygen levels are sufficient to support the needs of passengers with non-obstructed lung disease. Commercial air travel appears to be safe for...
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General Science | Friday May 22
Beneficial Plant 'Spillover' Effect Seen From Landscape Corridors
Biologists show that using landscape corridors, the "superhighways" that connect isolated patches of habitat, to protect certain plants has a large "spillover" effect that increases the number of plant species outside the conservation area.img...
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General Science | Friday May 22
Earth??™s Climate And Ocean Acidification History
A scientific research cruise following the palaeo-equator has uncovered nearly 53 million years of climate and ocean acidification history.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/73-XBAyaW3U" height="1" width="1"/
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General Science | Friday May 22
'Missing Link': Revealing Fast-spinning Pulsar Mysteries
Changes observed in a unique-double-star system are giving astronomers a glimpse of what they believe is the mechanism for "spinning up" the superfast neutron stars known as millisecond pulsars.img...
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General Science | Friday May 22
Swine Flu And Other New Infectious Diseases -- What's The Risk?
With the current outbreak of swine flu, and in the absence of a vaccine or treatment at present, the only way to contain the virus is to get people around the world to take precautionary measures. Researchers show that there are three key parameters...
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General Science | Thursday May 21
Obese Moms, Asthmatic Kids
Babies born to obese mothers may have an increased risk of asthma, according to data from a new study.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/3UeTbABXarQ" height="1" width="1"/
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General Science | Thursday May 21
How An Enzyme Tells Stem Cells Which Way To Divide
Driving Miranda, a protein in fruit flies crucial to switch a stem cell's fate, is not as complex as biologists thought, according to biochemists. They've found that one enzyme stands alone and acts as a traffic cop that directs which roads daughter...
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General Science | Thursday May 21
New Strategies For Cell Therapy To Regenerate Damaged Heart
In animal models, stem cells derived from bone marrow and adipose tissue enhance heart function after a cardiac attack.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/UTniR3_Eix4" height="1" width="1"/
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General Science | Thursday May 21
Bird Songs Change With The Landscape
When the going gets rough, the tough apparently sing slower. As vegetation reclaimed formerly cleared land in California, Oregon and Washington over the last 35 years, male white-crowned sparrows have lowered their pitch and slowed down their singing...
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General Science | Thursday May 21
Fast, Affordable Tool For Finding Gene 'On-off' Switches
Scientists have created a method of quickly identifying large numbers of the genetic material known as short hairpin RNA -- also called shRNA -- that turns genes on and off.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/onUgWSP1kAY"...
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General Science | Thursday May 21
Genital Stimulation Opens Door For Cryptic Female Choice In Tsetse Flies
Manipulation of male and/or female genitalia results in a suite of changes in female reproductive behavior in tsetse flies, carriers of African sleeping sickness.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/tb8VlQUwE-k" height="1" width="1"/
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General Science | Thursday May 21
Reassuring Evidence On The Outcome Of Children Born After Embryo Freezing
A new study provides reassuring evidence on the outcome of children born after embryos were frozen and stored, before being thawed and transferred to the womb. The results are good news as an increasing number of children, estimated to be 25% of...
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General Science | Thursday May 21
Sick Of The Same Old Thing? Researcher Finds Satiation Solution
Have you ever gotten sick of pizza, playing the same computer game, or had a song stuck in your head for so long you never wanted to hear it again? If you have, you may suffer from variety amnesia. New research may have found a cure for your satiation...
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General Science | Thursday May 21
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