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- By Sci/Tech News Staff
- May 22nd, 2006
Darwin's "Abominable Mystery" Solved: How Did Plants Got to Have Flowers?
The missing link seems to be a "living fossil" discovered in New Caledonia
- By Sci/Tech News Staff
- May 22nd, 2006
Careful What You Eat or You Might Have Twins
"The chance of having twins is affected by both heredity and environment, or in other words, by both nature and nurture"
- By Vlad Tarko
- May 22nd, 2006
We Are a Million and a Half Years Younger than We Thought
And there were 4 million years of human-chimpanzee hybridization
- By Sci/Tech News Staff
- May 22nd, 2006
A Bold Plan to Save the Rainforests
Proposed by the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation
- By Sci/Tech News Staff
- May 22nd, 2006
Apes Make Plans and Have a Certain Cognitive Understanding of the World
Researchers study bonobos' and orangutans' capacity to plan ahead
- By Carmen Ivanov
- May 20th, 2006
Few Young Cancer Survivors Get Best Follow-Up
Teenagers still face a long-term risk
- By Carmen Ivanov
- May 20th, 2006
Some Blood Pressure Meds May Raise Diabetes Risk
Diuretics and beta-blockers
- By Carmen Ivanov
- May 20th, 2006
Detecting Deafness Early Doesn't Help Speech
In the first months of life can improve the ability to use language
- By Carmen Ivanov
- May 20th, 2006
Merck Presses for Cervical Cancer Vaccine Approval
It's designed to block a sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer
- By Carmen Ivanov
- May 20th, 2006
Don't Blame Job Stress for High Blood Pressure
Virtually is no evidence
- By Carmen Ivanov
- May 20th, 2006
Vioxx Stroke Risk Could Last Years
Vioxx is accelerating atherosclerosis or a sustained increase in blood pressure
- By Ruxandra Adam
- May 19th, 2006
First Heart Surgery Performed by a Robot
The surgery took place in a hospital in Milan
- By Vlad Tarko
- May 19th, 2006
Schizophrenics Don't Understand Body Language
And medication doesn't seem to help them
- By Vlad Tarko
- May 19th, 2006
Do We Need a Novel and Modern Definition of 'Family'?
The Economic and Social Research Council decided to study the issue
- By Vlad Tarko
- May 19th, 2006
Gossip is a Good Thing?!
It creates friendships, it does not break them, study shows
- By Vlad Tarko
- May 19th, 2006
Phones Have Changed, but the Girls Have Not
Advertising almost half a century old might still work!