News Brain power can decline from age 45
01-07-2012
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The RawStory.com
Cognitive skills can start to fall from the age of 45, not from around the age of 60 as is commonly thought, according to research published on Friday by the British Medical Journal (BMJ).
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News Doctors to remove Vietnamese man’s 90kg tumour
01-06-2012
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The RawStory.com
A man left unable to walk by a tumour on his right leg that weighs more than the rest of his body went under the knife in Vietnam on Thursday to have the growth removed, hospital officials said.
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News Monkey Embryo Mashup Results In First Primate Chimeras
01-05-2012
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
Scientists have produced the world’s first chimeric monkeys, developed from stem cells harvested from separate embryos. They contain genetic material from as many as six genomes. The infant rhesus monkeys are totally healthy and could hold great prom
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News Modern disease found in ancient bones
01-03-2012
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The RawStory.com
US scientists said Tuesday that their study of a set of medieval bones found in Albania has revealed traces of a modern infectious disease that afflicts people who eat unpasteurized dairy products.
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News Anger over secret drug trials on Indian children
01-03-2012
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The RawStory.com
Indian activists have reacted angrily after 12 doctors were fined less than $100 each for conducting secret drug trials on children and patients with learning disabilities.
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News Bugs may be resistant to genetically modified corn
01-01-2012
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Yahoo!NEWS
One of the nation's most widely planted crops — a genetically engineered corn plant that makes its own insecticide — may be losing its effectiveness because a major pest appears to be developing resistance more quickly than scientists expected.
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News Zoo to use pop music to keep giraffes calm on New Year’s Eve
12-31-2011
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The RawStory.com
Keepers at a Dutch zoo have found an unorthodox solution to calm down skittish giraffes spooked by the sound of thousands of end-of-year fireworks going off: playing them pop music.
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News Butterball turkey facility raided for abuse of birds
12-30-2011
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The RawStory.com
Authorities searched a Butterball turkey farm in North Carolina on Thursday after an animal protection group alleged that birds there were being neglected and abused, police said.
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News 2011 a ‘horrible year for elephants’
12-30-2011
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The RawStory.com
The past 12 months have seen a record number of large ivory seizures across the world, a leading wildlife watchdog said Thursday, saying it had been a “horrible year for elephants”.
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News Japan scientists hope slime holds intelligence key
12-28-2011
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The RawStory.com
A brainless, primeval organism able to navigate a maze might help Japanese scientists devise the ideal transport network design. Not bad for a mono-cellular being that lives on rotting leaves.
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News U.S. reports progress on bioweapons control
12-24-2011
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The RawStory.com
Progress has been made in protecting against the threat of biological weapons, the State Department said Friday at the end of global talks which agreed to boost moves to thwart their spread.
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News FDA Won’t Act Against Ag Antibiotic Use
12-23-2011
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Maryn McKenna via
the US Food and Drug Administration has reneged on its long-stated intention to compel large-scale agriculture to curb over-use of agricultural antibiotics
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News Top 10 Most Poisonous Plants
11-12-2011
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worldsbiggests.com
The worlds most deadliest plants. The good news, most of the deadliest plants will kill you only if you eat them. If you wanted to find the Top 10 Most Poisonous Plants then you have come to the right place.
Some plants cannot be touched without a
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News Online gamers crack AIDS enzyme puzzle in just 3 weeks
09-20-2011
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Yahoo Games
A microscope gives only a flat image of what to the outsider looks like a plate of one-dimensional scrunched-up spaghetti. Pharmacologists, though, need a 3-D picture that "unfolds" the molecule. This is where Foldit comes in.
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News Giant crocodile captured alive in Philippines
09-09-2011
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news.yahoo.com
Villagers and veteran hunters have captured a one-ton saltwater crocodile which they plan to make the star of a planned ecotourism park in a southern Philippine town, an official said Monday.
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News Scientists Who Cloned Dolly the Sheep Plan to Clone Endangered Wildcats Using Eggs From Spayed Pets
08-24-2011
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
One of the scientists responsible for cloning Dolly the sheep 15 years ago is developing a new cloning technique that he believes could help save endangered species.
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News Mice Engineered to Lack Muscle Contraction Gene Have Superior Endurance (and Humans Might, Too)
07-18-2011
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
Around mile 10 of a recent half marathon, my quadriceps started to tighten and my feet increasingly felt like lead. Along with improving my training, perhaps in the future I will use zinc-finger nuclease scissors to snip out a gene called IL-15Rα
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News Inflated Muscles Super Cow
07-14-2011
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Animals Icons
Belgian Blue Beef are famous for their “double muscling” due to a gene that suppresses the production of Myostatin. Myostatin is a protein that normally inhibits muscle growth after a certain point of development. Pure Belgian Blue carry two copies o
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News Arctic-crossing algae, whale show threat to Atlantic
06-26-2011
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RawStory.com
Tiny algae and a whale native to the Pacific have crossed a thawing Arctic Ocean in what may portend a marine invasion threatening Atlantic fish stocks, scientists said on Sunday.
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News Researchers take dinosaurs’ temperature with teeth
06-25-2011
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RawStoyr.com
Scientists in California say they have for the first time devised a way to accurately take the body temperatures of dinosaurs -- by examining the creatures' teeth.
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News Humans Might Be Able to See the Earth's Magnetic Field, Like Birds Do
06-21-2011
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
Without realizing it, humans might be able to innately detect Earth’s magnetic field, thanks to a compound found in our eyes. Or we may have been able to do so some time in the past.
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News Microdrone Goes On Safari, Buzzing Kenyan Wildlife To Capture Footage
06-07-2011
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http://www.popsci.com/
the latest generation of flying robots, from tennis-playing quadcopters to surveillance hummingbirds. But zebras, it’s fair to say, are not. So what happens when a drone buzzes a herd?
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News Worms from Hell? Deepest Multicellular Life Found
06-02-2011
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http://www.livescience.com/
How low can worms go? According to a new study, at least 0.8 miles (1.3 kilometers) below the Earth's surface.
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News Amazing Pollen Grains Under Microscope
05-04-2010
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Wonders-World.com
Hay fever sufferers can now see the face of their invisible enemy - thanks to these Scanning Electron Microscope images of pollen grains. A Swiss scientists named Martin Oeggerli, who uses the name Micronaut for his art, uses a Scanning Electron Micr
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News For the First Time, Humans See Quantum Entanglement With the Naked Eye
05-01-2011
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
Physicists at the University of Geneva in Switzerland have devised a new kind of quantum experiment using humans as photon detectors, and in doing so have made the quantum phenomenon of entanglement visible to the naked eye for the first time.
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News Government Says Biotech Companies Can Be Their Own Safety Testers
04-27-2011
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
That means companies like Monsanto, which provides about 90 percent of the world’s transgenic crops, will help the government decide whether their own products should be approved.
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News Things Fire Ants Behave Like: Gore-Tex, a Liquid, a Woven Material, and a Waterproof Raft
04-27-2011
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Dan Nosowitz via PopSci.com
Fire ants might be infuriating little beasts, an invasive species we'd all be pleased to see banished to its native Brazil, but it turns out a fire ant colony has some pretty amazing properties.
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News ARPA-E's PETRO Program Plans to Create Better Biofuel Crops, Cutting Costs in Half
04-27-2011
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
PETRO, or Plants Engineered to Replace Oil, looks to breed or genetically modify plants that boost energy-per-acre by boosting their abilities to capture and convert solar energy.
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News African Potato Lab Fights Malnutrition With Biofortification
04-27-2011
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Matthew Shechmeister via WIRED.com
The sweet potato has become an unsung hero against malnutrition in Africa. High in vitamin A and suited to a variety of climates, it hass championed by advocates of biofortification, a movement to improve global health by breeding nutrient-rich crops
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News Fire Ant Secret: How They Create Life-Saving Rafts in Floods
04-25-2011
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LiveScience
It's the ultimate vehicle for an emergency flood escape. It can assemble itself in about 100 seconds, and keep thousands to millions of passengers safe and afloat for days, even weeks. Floating clusters of fire ants are a feat of natural engineering,
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Headlines: Fire Ant Secret: How They Create Life-Saving Rafts in Floods -- African Potato Lab Fights Malnutrition With Biofortification -- ARPA-E's PETRO Program Plans to Create Better Biofuel Crops, Cutting Costs in Half -- Things Fire Ants Behave Like: Gore-Tex, a Liquid, a Woven Material, and a Waterproof Raft -- Government Says Biotech Companies Can Be Their Own Safety Testers -- For the First Time, Humans See Quantum Entanglement With the Naked Eye -- Amazing Pollen Grains Under Microscope -- Worms from Hell? Deepest Multicellular Life Found -- Microdrone Goes On Safari, Buzzing Kenyan Wildlife To Capture Footage -- Humans Might Be Able to See the Earth's Magnetic Field, Like Birds Do -- Researchers take dinosaurs’ temperature with teeth -- Arctic-crossing algae, whale show threat to Atlantic -- Inflated Muscles Super Cow -- Mice Engineered to Lack Muscle Contraction Gene Have Superior Endurance (and Humans Might, Too) -- Scientists Who Cloned Dolly the Sheep Plan to Clone Endangered Wildcats Using Eggs From Spayed Pets -- Giant crocodile captured alive in Philippines -- Online gamers crack AIDS enzyme puzzle in just 3 weeks -- Top 10 Most Poisonous Plants -- FDA Won’t Act Against Ag Antibiotic Use -- U.S. reports progress on bioweapons control -- Japan scientists hope slime holds intelligence key -- 2011 a ‘horrible year for elephants’ -- Butterball turkey facility raided for abuse of birds -- Zoo to use pop music to keep giraffes calm on New Year’s Eve -- Bugs may be resistant to genetically modified corn -- Anger over secret drug trials on Indian children
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