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Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Those who sat for more than four hours per day were significantly more likely to report having a chronic disease such as cancer, diabetes, heart disease and high blood pressure.
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Craig Jones on 02/20 at 01:40 PM
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Armed with new tools, University of Chicago astronomers search for worlds like Earth.
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Craig Jones on 02/20 at 01:13 PM
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Monday, February 18, 2013
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Thom Canalichio on 02/18 at 05:24 PM
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Monday, February 11, 2013
Scientists build new tree of life for placentals using ‘phylophenomics,’ visualize common ancestor.
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Craig Jones on 02/11 at 01:49 PM
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Wednesday, January 09, 2013
New research suggests that drinking sweetened beverages, especially diet drinks, is associated with an increased risk of depression in adults while drinking coffee was tied to a slightly lower risk.
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Craig Jones on 01/09 at 12:59 PM
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Monday, December 31, 2012
A collaboration with major participation by physicists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has made a precise measurement of elusive, nearly massless particles, and obtained a crucial hint as to why the universe is dominated by matter, not by its close relative, anti-matter.
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Craig Jones on 12/31 at 12:00 PM
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Thursday, December 06, 2012
If the 4.9 million barrels of oil that spilled into the Gulf of Mexico during the 2010 Deep Water Horizon spill was a ecological disaster, the two million gallons of dispersant used to clean it up apparently made it even worse – 52-times more toxic. That’s according to new research from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Universidad Autonoma de Aguascalientes (UAA), Mexico.
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Craig Jones on 12/06 at 01:09 PM
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Friday, November 16, 2012
A collaborative study involving researchers at Arizona State University, the University of Toronto, and the University of Cape Town found that human ancestors were making stone-tipped weapons 500,000 years ago at the South African archaeological site of Kathu Pan 1 – 200,000 years earlier than previously thought. This study, “Evidence for Early Hafted Hunting Technology,” is published in the Nov. 16 issue of the journal Science.
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Craig Jones on 11/16 at 09:14 AM
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012
In vitro fertilization may significantly increase the risk of birth defects, particularly those of the eyes, heart, reproductive organs and urinary system, according to a new UCLA study.
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Craig Jones on 10/24 at 11:15 AM
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Friday, October 05, 2012
Providing birth control to women at no cost substantially reduced unplanned pregnancies and cut abortion rates by 62 percent to 78 percent over the national rate, a new study shows.
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Craig Jones on 10/05 at 02:29 PM
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