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  • By Alexandra Lupu
  • July 5th, 2006
Improve Your Memory with Natural Resources

Improve Your Memory with Natural Resources

If memory and cognitive function may degenerate in time, there are always the natural remedies that may improve it

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • July 5th, 2006
Women Given Specialized Treatment Half as Likely to Attempt Suicide

Women Given Specialized Treatment Half as Likely to Attempt Suicide

Treatement for serious mental disorder called borderline personality disorder

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • July 5th, 2006
A Surprise about Our Body Clock

A Surprise about Our Body Clock

The first gene known to control the internal clock of humans and other mammals works much differently than previously believed

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • July 5th, 2006
Fossils Depict Aquatic Origins of Birds 115 Million Years Ago

Fossils Depict Aquatic Origins of Birds 115 Million Years Ago

How birds separated from the rest of the dinosaurs

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  • By Vlad Tarko
  • July 5th, 2006
Mindless Reading Seems More Important than Previously Thought

Mindless Reading Seems More Important than Previously Thought

Researchers have demonstrated for the first time the ill effects of mindless reading

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  • By Alexandra Lupu
  • July 5th, 2006
Five Steps Towards a Healthy Life

Five Steps Towards a Healthy Life

A 16 years study showed that middle aged and old people don't need to take any kind of medication against heart disease, all they have to do is to lead a healthy and moderate life

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • July 5th, 2006
New Study Shows People Sleep Even Less Than They Think

New Study Shows People Sleep Even Less Than They Think

Americans sleep much less than they should, and even less than they think

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • July 5th, 2006
How Ancient Whales Lost Their Legs, Got Sleek and Conquered the Oceans

How Ancient Whales Lost Their Legs, Got Sleek and Conquered the Oceans

Taking into account both fossils and genetics, scientists put together the story of the whales

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • July 5th, 2006
Nanotechnology 'Fertile' for Energy Breakthrough

Nanotechnology 'Fertile' for Energy Breakthrough

What nanotechnology can do for large-scale energy applications

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • July 5th, 2006
How Stem Cells Stay Childlike

How Stem Cells Stay Childlike

Scientists find a feed-back mechanism that allows differentiated cells to produce stem cells as descendants

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  • By Alexandra Lupu
  • July 5th, 2006
Breast Feeding Prevents Bed Wetting

Breast Feeding Prevents Bed Wetting

An US research proved that breastfeeding is more beneficial than formula for the infants

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • July 5th, 2006
Astronomers Discover a Rare and Mysterious Giant 'Blob'

Astronomers Discover a Rare and Mysterious Giant 'Blob'

Could it be matter falling on a clump of dark matter?

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • July 5th, 2006
Planning for Stewardship Important Part of Ecological Restoration

Planning for Stewardship Important Part of Ecological Restoration

Restoring degraded ecosystems around Seattle - and giving them a fighting chance to stay healthy - can be as much about PR as the right plants

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • July 5th, 2006
How Sensory Deprivation in Children May Lead to Abnormal Brain Function as Adults

How Sensory Deprivation in Children May Lead to Abnormal Brain Function as Adults

The National Institutes of Health, through its Blueprint for the Neurosciences program, has awarded a $10.3 million, five-year grant for neuroscience research at the University of Wyoming

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  • By Alexandra Lupu
  • July 5th, 2006
Higher Rate of Sexual Diseases Registered

Higher Rate of Sexual Diseases Registered

The Health Protection Agency ascertained an increase in syphilis with 23% and chlamydia with 5% for 2005

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • July 5th, 2006
How Does a Batch of Immature Cells Give Rise to an Organ as Extraordinarily Complex as the Human Brain?

How Does a Batch of Immature Cells Give Rise to an Organ as Extraordinarily Complex as the Human Brain?

Medium is the message for stem cells in search of identities

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • July 5th, 2006
What Can a Magnet Tell You About Rain Patterns?

What Can a Magnet Tell You About Rain Patterns?

More than you would guess: both tropical rainfall and magnetism are described by the mathematics of "self-organized criticality"