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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • July 12th, 2006
Supercomputers Help Physicists Understand a Forces of Nature

Supercomputers Help Physicists Understand a Forces of Nature

A breakthrough in the calculations needed to understand the strong nuclear force that comes from the motion of quarks and gluons is allowing scientists to begin finding answers to some profound questions

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • July 12th, 2006
It's 2025. Where Do Most People Live?

It's 2025. Where Do Most People Live?

Researchers have developed a high-resolution map of projected population change for the year 2025

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  • By Alexandra Lupu
  • July 12th, 2006
Bully Girls Often Turn into Bad Mothers

Bully Girls Often Turn into Bad Mothers

Bully schoolgirls develop an aggressive behavior towards their own children if not provided with intensive care and attendance by their parents and friends

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • July 12th, 2006
Higher Levels of Common Daily Activity Associated with Lower Risk of Death

Higher Levels of Common Daily Activity Associated with Lower Risk of Death

"Efforts to increase or maintain free-living activity energy expenditure will likely improve the health of older adults."

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • July 12th, 2006
Radiation Causes More Spongy Bone Loss Than Expected

Radiation Causes More Spongy Bone Loss Than Expected

A research that has many implications for cancer patients receiving radiation therapy and astronauts traveling on long space flights

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • July 12th, 2006
Jellyfish Start Taking Over the Oceans

Jellyfish Start Taking Over the Oceans

Jellyfish biomass has risen in numerous locations worldwide as a consequence of fishing and climatic changes

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • July 12th, 2006
Making a Face

Making a Face

A new and earlier marker of neural crest development

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • July 12th, 2006
Suprising Discovery May Lead to New Understanding of Water Quality

Suprising Discovery May Lead to New Understanding of Water Quality

Scientist study the behavior of ions at solid-liquid interfaces

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  • By Alexandra Lupu
  • July 12th, 2006
Deadly Sea Snail Venom to Ease Persistent Pain

Deadly Sea Snail Venom to Ease Persistent Pain

A synthetic venom resembling the one of the Conus magus sea snail will release chronic pains in patient with cancer or very severe diseases

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • July 12th, 2006
Large Dinosaurs Were Extremely Hot in Their Days

Large Dinosaurs Were Extremely Hot in Their Days

Study determines the temperature of dinosaurs given their size

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • July 12th, 2006
How Parachute Spiders Invade New Territory

How Parachute Spiders Invade New Territory

How spiders are able to 'fly' or 'parachute' into new territory on single strands of silk

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  • By Alexandra Lupu
  • July 12th, 2006
Morning Sickness in Pregnant Women Results from Unhealthy Diet

Morning Sickness in Pregnant Women Results from Unhealthy Diet

Morning sickness may prevent more serious health problems both in the pregnant woman and the fetus

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  • By Alexandra Lupu
  • July 12th, 2006
Prosthetic Retina to Restore Vision in Blind People

Prosthetic Retina to Restore Vision in Blind People

Researchers at the University in Glasgow are on their way of creating a new digital camera like device that will help blind people regain their eyesight

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  • By Alexandra Lupu
  • July 11th, 2006
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Chronic exhaustion has no exact cause or method of treatment, but it came to affect a large number of people recently

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • July 11th, 2006
Q&A With Roland Griffiths About "Sacred Mushrooms"

Q&A With Roland Griffiths About "Sacred Mushrooms"

Can you access God with the help of a pill?

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • July 11th, 2006
Hallucinogen in Mushrooms Creates Universal "Mystical" Experience

Hallucinogen in Mushrooms Creates Universal "Mystical" Experience

The active agent in "sacred mushrooms" can induce mystical/spiritual experiences descriptively identical to spontaneous ones people have reported for centuries