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NASA Telescope Picks Up Glow Of Universe's First Objects
New observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope strongly suggest that infrared light detected in a prior study originated from clumps of the very first objects of the universe. The recent data indicate this patchy light is splattered across the entire sky and comes from clusters of bright, monstrous objects more than 13 billion light-years away. Poxvirus Used To Fight Cancer: Malignant Human Brain Tumors 'Cured' In
A cross-Canada scientific collaboration has successfully tested a potent new cancer-fighting virus that eliminates malignant brain tumors and prolongs survival in mice with a single injection. The scientists -- from Calgary and London, Ontario -- have shown for the first time that myxoma virus, a poxvirus, will kill human brain tumors in mice and prolong the animals' survival. National Weather Service: Climate Prediction Center: Climate Assessmen
A collection of material providing a "technical review of global climate variations and their global impacts on seasonal and annual time scales."Includes topics such as north Atlantic hurricane seasons (NOAA forecasted "a 95%to 100%chance of an above-normal 2005 Atlantic hurricane season,"in August 2005), West and Midwest flooding, and heat and dryness in Europe. Also includes seasonal monitoring information. From the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). High Blood Pressure A Greater Risk For Stroke And Heart Disease In Asi
A new study on risk factors in cardiovascular disease in Asia has found that blood pressure is more strongly related to coronary heart disease and stroke in Asia, as compared with Western countries such as Australia and New Zealand. Are Women Being Scared Away From Math, Science, And Engineering Fields
Have you ever felt outnumbered? Like there are just not that many people like you around? One group that may experience this kind of threat is women who participate in math, science and engineering settings -- settings in which the gender ratio is approximately three men to every one woman. New research shows that when women feel outnumbered, their academic performance expectations and actual performance decreases. [Odd] A Romanian couple has named their son Yahoo as a sign of gratitu
Daily Libertatea said on Thursday Cornelia and Nonu Dragoman, both from Transylvania, met and decided they were meant for each other following a three-month relationship over the net.They married and had a baby this Christmas, whom they decided to name after one of the worldwide web's most popular portals."We named him Lucian Yahoo after my father and the net, the main beacon of my life,"Cornelia Dragoman was quoted as saying. Nuclear Medicine Approach Can Be First Choice For Excluding Pulmonary
Young women at risk of having a pulmonary embolism -- a potential life-threatening blockage in a lung artery -- should first undergo a ventilation/perfusion lung scan rather than a CT angiogram, conclude authors in an article published in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine. Natural Selection Has Strongly Influenced Recent Human Evolution, Stud
The most detailed analysis to date of how humans differ from one another at the DNA level shows strong evidence that natural selection has shaped the recent evolution of our species, according to a study by researchers from Cornell University, Celera Genomics and Celera Diagnostics published in the Oct. 20 issue of the journal Nature. Breast Cancer May Be 'Uniquely Sensitive' To Inhibitors Of PI3K Pathwa
Because up to 75 percent of breast cancer patients have an abnormality in a specific cell signaling pathway, drugs that target different molecules along that pathway may be especially effective for treating the disease, says a researcher from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. Overweight Adolescents Projected To Have More Heart Disease In Young A
A new study investigating the health effects of being overweight during adolescence projects alarming increases in the rates of heart disease and premature death by the time today's teenagers reach young adulthood.
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