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Scientists back bluefin tuna trade ban: Greenpeace and WWF ...Illegal wildlife trade... Scientists who advise fisheries regulators support a ban on trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna, a sushi staple, to protect... Three U.S. Scientists awarded Nobel Prize in Medicine
Three U.S. scientists have been recognized by the Krolinska Institute in Sweden for their discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase. This discovery has implications for...
created by albertacowpoke | 4 wks ago | updated 4 wks ago
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169 views | 12 recommendations | 2 comments
Pretty Women Make Men Feel Better
Just a five minute talk with a pretty woman raises a man's testosterone levels by 14 percent, making him feel better and more alert. A new study shows that chatting with women raises the levels of the hormones...
created by Annina Bergman | 5 wks ago | updated 4 wks ago
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476 views | 25 recommendations | 9 comments
New AIDS Vaccine ALVAC-AIDSVAX to Help Prevent AIDS
An experimental vaccine called ALVAC-AIDSVAX has been found to be over 31% effective in the prevention of AIDS, suggesting new hope and a breakthrough in the near future. The study was conducted on 16,000... Scientists Make Paralyzed Rats Walk Again
Scientists at the University of California in Los Angeles have been able to return function to paralyzed rats using a combination of exercise, drugs and electrical stimulation. The study has important implications... Skull Finds Challenge Theories Of Human Colonisation
New discoveries in Eurasia are challenging old beliefs that homo sapiens evolved solely on the African continent. Scientists have found a few 1.8 million years old skulls in Dmanisi, a medieval village near Tblisi in Georgia. The skulls are the oldest remains ever found... Well, we're not Ninja turtles
Being a person who had a good few, and heated, debates about the "theory" of evolution - whether it is a scientific theory or just a theory - more evidence comes to light that we, humans, are just a bunch of mutants - as expected by yours truly."Each of us has at least 100... Scientists design spacecraft to save Earth
" Heroic missions to stop life on Earth from being wiped out by an asteroid have become a favourite theme for Hollywood disaster films. Now, a team of British engineers have designed a real-life spacecraft... Texas sized pile of ocean garbage worse than expected
"It's one of the bigger pieces of trash in a sprawling mass of garbage-littered water, known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, where most of the plastic looks like snowy confetti against the deep blue of the... Confessions of a running addict
" t appears I'm in denial. There I was, smug at how much running I do, gloating that Government diktats on healthy living don't apply to me. But apparently I'm no better than a heroin addict. Scientists... Upwards lightning caught on film
" Scientists have photographed "upwards lightning", a rarely-seen phenomenon where electricity from storms flows into the upper atmosphere. During last year's Tropical Storm Cristobal, lightning reached more... Nobel Laureates Warn Obama Against Missile Defense Deployment
""20 eminent scientists (including 10 Nobel laureates), advise Obama that Missile Defense "has not been proven and does not merit deployment. It would offer little or no defensive capability, even in principle."""And, a special forum on...
created by Maireid Sullivan | 11 wks ago | updated 11 wks ago
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175 views | 7 recommendations | 6 comments
Child leukaemia 'genes' revealed
" Genetic flaws that increase the risk of the most common form of childhood leukaemia have been uncovered by British scientists. The three variants each raise the risk by between 30% and 60%, said the Institute of... Japanese Scientists Grow Teeth In Mice
Scientists in Japan have managed to grow fully functional teeth in mice using stem cells, and are hopeful the same technique can be used to grow human organs in the future. The researchers created a seed...
created by Annina Bergman | 12 wks ago | updated 12 wks ago
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174 views | 26 recommendations | 0 comments
Venus spot puzzles experts
The spot was first identified by US amateur astronomer Frank Melillo, from Holtsville, New York.The spot was first identified by an amateur astronomer on 19 July and was later confirmed by the European Space Agency's Venus Express spacecraft. Data from the European probe...
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