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[Ironic] Professional beggars prowling about the streets of Moroccan c
The government plans to crack down on the scam used by faux beggars in growing numbers for a kind of "emotional blackmail", a cabinet minister was quoted as saying... Climate Change More Rapid Than Ever
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology presented on Thursday, September 29, their first model calculations for the future of the climate. According to the calculations, in the next 100 years, the climate will change more than ever. Given particular conditions, it is expected that the sea ice in the North Pole region will completely melt in the summer. Extreme weather events in Europe will increase in frequency and strength. Pretreating Rogue Cancer Cells With Aspirin Cripples Their Resistance
In a study published in the Dec. 9 issue of the Journal of Biological Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh researchers report that aspirin, combined with a promising new cancer therapy known as TRAIL, can induce cancer cells that were previously resistant to TRAIL therapy to self-destruct. The investigators say that aspirin could become a routine, low-cost therapy for helping to prevent the recurrence of many aggressive cancers, such as prostate and colon cancers. Pill Box Organizers Increase HIV Patients'Adherence And Improve Viral
Inexpensive pill box organizers are an easy, successful, and cost-effective tool to help patients take their medications as prescribed, according to a new study of low-income urban residents living with HIV infection. Incomplete adherence to HIV therapy is the most common cause of incomplete viral suppression, drug resistance, disease progression, and death among people living with HIV/AIDS. NewScientist.com Special Reports: Return of the Space Shuttle
Background information and news on U.S. space shuttles (Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour), the Hubble Space Telescope, and other topics related to NASA and the space program. Features a space shuttle timeline, facts and figures related to shuttle safety improvements, and related links. From the online version of New Scientist magazine. Visual Imagery Technique Boosts Voting, Study Finds
Registered voters who used a simple visual imagery technique the evening before the 2004 election were significantly more likely to vote the next day, a new study found. It was all a matter of the visual perspective people took when they imagined themselves voting. DNA Repair Teams' Motto: 'To Protect And Serve'
When you dial 911 you expect rescuers to pull up at your front door, unload and get busy -- not park the truck down the street and eat donuts. It's the same for a cell -- just before it divides, it recruitsprotein complexes that repair breakage that may have occurred along your 46 chromosomes. Without repair, damage caused by smoking, chemical mutagens, or radiation might be passed on to the next generation. Gamma Rays From Thunderstorms?
Duke University engineers have led the most detailed analyses of links between some lightning events and mysterious gamma ray emissions that emanate from earth's own atmosphere. Their study suggests that this gamma radiation fountains upward from starting points surprisingly low in thunderclouds. Counter-intuitively, these strong gamma outbursts also seem to precede associated lightning discharges by a split second. Gene With Broad Role Also Causes Prevalent, Inherited Nerve Disorder
A gene that plays many fundamental roles in cells throughout the body has, for the first time, been implicated in human disease, according to researchers at the Duke Center for Human Genetics. A defect in the ubiquitous gene dynamin 2 underlies one form of the prevalent, familial nerve disorder, known as Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT). Prejudice Is Hard-wired Into The Human Brain, Says ASU Study
Contrary to what most people believe, the tendency to be prejudiced is a form of common sense, hard-wired into the human brain through evolution as an adaptive response to protect our prehistoric ancestors from danger.
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