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Health & MedicineGender differences in weight loss
Men and women gain weight differently and may lose it differently, too.
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Health & MedicineAntioxidants for greyhounds? Not a good bet
Antioxidant vitamins that greyhound racers have been giving their animals to boost performance actually slow down the dogs.
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Health & MedicineStudy fails to link vasectomy to cancer
Researchers have found that men with prostate cancer are no more likely to have had a vasectomy than healthy men are.
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PhysicsPaper planes get laser liftoff
Powering aircraft by remote lasers works—at least on paper.
By Peter Weiss -
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This article says that the water drop is added to the back of the paper “as a wall against which the metal plume could push.” It seems more likely that the heat of the laser would even more violently vaporize the water, creating a small explosion that would drive the plane forward via the relatively […]
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EarthStudy links cancer to Vatican Radio
Broadcast transmissions from a forest of antennas owned by Vatican Radio, outside Rome, appear to have boosted leukemia incidence in neighboring communities.
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Health & MedicineMethod could boost diabetes therapy
Allowing insulin-producing islets to grow in close contact with each other during cell culture may increase the chance of successful transplant into diabetic people.
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TechSoftware bugs cost big bucks
An epidemic of software errors in industrial computer programs is costing the United States $60 billion per year.
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Health & MedicineMelanoma gene quickly reeled in
Biologists have discovered a gene that may contribute to many cases of deadly skin cancer.
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EarthCrisis on Tap?
Because people are becoming ever more dependent on underground aquifers as sources of water, scientists are striving to understand better how groundwater systems interact with the water that flows across Earth's surface.
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Regarding this article, I live close to Mendota, Calif., the site of the photo depicting ground subsidence due to overpumping of groundwater. Though I have only lived here for two summers, I am surprised at the amount of water wasted daily by agriculture and residential users in this area. A casual observer would not know […]
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