Thursday, December 02, 2010
vidence that the toxic element arsenic can replace the essential nutrient phosphorus in biomolecules of a naturally occurring bacterium expands the scope of the search for life beyond Earth, according to Arizona State University scientists who are part of a NASA-funded research team reporting findings in the Dec. 2 online Science Express.
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Craig Jones on 12/02 at 03:26 PM
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Tuesday, November 30, 2010
The new era of Weight Watchers is here. The world-renowned leader in weight management has announced s a successor to its popular POINTS weight loss system – the new PointsPlus program.
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Thom Canalichio on 11/30 at 01:23 PM
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Monday, November 29, 2010
How does a media relations professional help a CEO come to terms with the reality of getting covered in a major newspaper and reframe the client’s expectation for “good press?”
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Roger Johnson on 11/29 at 04:41 PM
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Monday, November 29, 2010
There’s good news for women with epilepsy. Breastfeeding your baby while taking your seizure medication may have no harmful effect on your child’s IQ later on, according to a study published in the November 24, 2010, online issue of Neurology.
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Craig Jones on 11/29 at 03:44 PM
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Thursday, November 18, 2010
News subscriber and education reporter Sarah D. Sparks blogs about education research, and the politics, personalities, and p-values in education studies. Her goal is to bring research out of the lab and into the classroom.
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Thom Canalichio on 11/18 at 10:54 AM
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Wednesday, November 17, 2010
While our direct knowledge of black holes in the universe is limited to what we can observe from thousands or millions of light years away, a team of Chinese physicists has proposed a simple way to design an artificial electromagnetic black hole in the laboratory—described in the Journal of Applied Physics.
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Craig Jones on 11/17 at 11:14 AM
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Thursday, November 11, 2010
A newly discovered gene which helps to control the sense of pain is linked to synaesthesia, when sensations such as touch also affect other senses like hearing or sight. The rare condition causes some people to see sounds or written words as colours, or experience tastes, smells and shapes in linked combinations. Famous synaesthetes include composers Franz Liszt or Olivier Messiaens, and this condition has been linked to creativity and intelligence.
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Craig Jones on 11/11 at 10:24 AM
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Tuesday, November 09, 2010
Provocative presentation at PRSA International Conference makes the case for why New Media is not here to replace Old Media, but save it.
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Zakira Beasley on 11/09 at 10:07 AM
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Tuesday, November 09, 2010
Searching Google for “press release is dead” yields lots of self-contradicting statements. Do people that make statements like these believe their own declarations, or are they writing shock headlines for a lark?
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Roger Johnson on 11/09 at 08:47 AM
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Monday, November 08, 2010
Babies born to mothers who eat peanuts during pregnancy appear more prone to peanut allergy, according to research conducted by scientists at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and elsewhere and published online in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. The research team was led by Scott Sicherer, M.D., of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York.
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Thom Canalichio on 11/08 at 04:11 PM
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