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Restricting Pesticides Could Greatly Reduce Suicide Rates Worldwide
National and international policies restricting the pesticides that are most toxic to humans may have a major impact on world suicides, according to new research. Sri Lanka's import restrictions on the most toxic pesticides were followed by marked reductions in suicide. Rumor: Dell Stores on Horizon
The drumbeat says Dell may be considering retail. Plus: Tell us about your favorite hackable Xbox 360 HD DVD player. In Gadget Lab. Chemists Identify Immune System Mechanism For Methamphetamine Binges
Chemists at The Scripps Research Institute have found evidence in laboratory studies that the immune system may be able to recognize methamphetamine and boost tolerance to the drug through an unusual vaccine-like mechanism. To The Moon! NASA To Build Lunar Base
NASA has unveiled the initial elements of the Global Exploration Strategy and a proposed U.S. lunar architecture to return humans to the moon. NASA's Lunar Architecture Team concluded that the most advantageous approach is to develop a solar-powered lunar base and to locate it near one of the poles of the moon. USA Patriot Act Sunset: Provisions That Expire on December 31, 2005
Text of the June 10, 2004, CRS (Congressional Research Service) Report for Congress about temporary provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act on "enhanced foreign intelligence and law enforcementsurveillance authority,"which were scheduled to expire at the end of 2005 if they did not get Congressional renewal. Opens directly into a PDF. From the Federation of American Scientists (FAS). New Genome Comparison Finds Chimps, Humans Very Similar at the DNA Lev
Summary of the results of the "first comprehensive comparison of the genetic blueprints of humans and chimpanzees [which] shows our closest living relatives share perfect identity with 96 percent of our DNA sequence."Includes the full text of the report by the Chimpanzee Sequencing and Analysis Consortium, published in the journal Nature. From the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), National Institutes of Health (NIH). Researchers Observe Superradiance In A Free Electron Laser
A team of researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory has generated extremely short light pulses using a new technique that could be used in the next generation of light sources. Published on Jan. 19, 2007, in Physical Review Letters, the research team's findings describe using a laser to control the pulse duration of light from a free electron laser as well as the first experimental observation of a phenomenon called superradiance. Antibiotic Resistance: Doctors'Antibiotic Prescribing Practices Still
General practitioners are still prescribing antibiotics for up to 80 percent of cases of sore throat, otitis media, upper respiratory tract infections, and sinusitis, despite the fact that official guidance warns against this practice, according to an analysis of the world's largest primary care database of consultations and prescriptions. [Funny] A referee has sent himself off in an English amateur league ma
Andy Wain had to abandon the Sunday league match between Peterborough North End and a Royal Mail side in the 63rd minute after throwing down his whistle and marching up to confront North End's keeper. New DNA Sequencing Technology Uses Firefly Enzymes To Read Genetic Cod
Unique technology that uses the enzymes of fireflies to read the genetic code of DNA has been installed at the University of Liverpool.
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