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Where the Blubber Meets the Road
Gas is expensive enough without burning more of it than necessary. But if you're wolfing down cheeseburgers and packing some extra tonnage that's exactly what you're doing, a new study concludes. Gawker Blasts Into Sci-Fi With New Blog, Io9; a Q&A With Editor Annale
Editor Annalee Newitz reveals the inspiration for the futurism-focused site's name, shares her obsession with the scientifically taboo and tells why sci-fi is going mainstream. Mangroves Shielded Communities Against Tsunami
A new study released today in the journal Science shows that areas buffered by coastal forests, like mangroves, were strikingly less damaged by the 2004 tsunami than areas without tree vegetation. Longer Duration Space Missions
The resumption of flights is of great importance for the International Space Station. It will allow more frequent service visits to pursue the construction of the orbital complex and allow long duration missions for three astronauts -- instead of two. Protecting Polar Bears With New Tracking Methods
A new approach to tracking polar bears will shed more light on the potentially endangered Arctic animal and help boost the economy of Canada's north. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): National Priorities List (
Website for the EPA's "list of national priorities among the known releases or threatened releases of hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants throughout the United States and its territories."On this site "you can locate NPL sites, check their cleanup progress, and get information on new and proposed NPL sites."Details about sites can be viewed through a U.S. map or a database of Superfund sites searchable by numerous factors (such as contaminants). [Ironic] An Italian pensioner committed suicide after his wife fell in
Recalling the end of Romeo and Juliet, the 70-year-old man, Ettore, who had sat by his wife's bedside for four months after she slipped into a coma following a heart attack, finally gave up hope and gassed himself in the garage of his family home.Less than a day later, his wife, Rossana, woke up in her hospital bed in Padua and immediately asked for him. Clinical Trials With Immunotherapy For Breast And Colorectal Cancer
Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine are conducting clinical trials on a unique approach to enhance the immune system in patients with breast or colorectal cancer. The study uses a potent immune-enhancing gene delivered directly into the cancer cells to make them look foreign to the body's immune system, which will then attack and destroy the cancer. New Method Shows It Is Possible To Grow Bone For Grafts Within A Patie
An international team of biomedical engineers has demonstrated for the first time that it is possible to grow healthy new bone reliably in one part of the body and use it to repair damaged bone at a different location. The research, which is based on a dramatic departure from the current practice in tissue engineering, is described in a paper titled "In vivo engineering of organs: The bone bioreactor"published online by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. Fear of lawsuits may prompt some doctors to overprescribe antibiotics
Investigators surveyed 162 health-care providers to determine whether medical liability concerns were as important as antibiotic cost and formulary restrictions in selecting treatment regimens. They found a strong correlation between the prevalence of methicillin resistance and density of attorneys in countries in Europe and North America.
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