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Friday, June 01, 2012
NASA astronomers announced they can now predict with certainty the next major cosmic event to affect our galaxy, Sun, and solar system: the titanic collision of our Milky Way galaxy with the neighboring Andromeda galaxy. The Milky Way is destined to get a major makeover during the encounter, which is predicted to happen four billion years from now. It’s likely the Sun will be flung into a new region of our galaxy, but our Earth and solar system are in no danger of being destroyed.
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Craig Jones on 06/01 at 08:35 AM
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Tuesday, May 29, 2012
An international team of mathematicians has devised an amplifier that can boost light, sound or other waves while hiding them inside an invisible container.
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Craig Jones on 05/29 at 02:18 PM
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Thursday, May 24, 2012
Even a moderate amount of weight loss can significantly reduce risk of breast cancer
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Thom Canalichio on 05/24 at 10:01 AM
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
A new UCLA study is the first to show how a diet steadily high in fructose slows the brain, hampering memory and learning—and how omega-3 fatty acids can minimize the damage.
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Craig Jones on 05/15 at 04:37 PM
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Thursday, May 03, 2012
Astronomers have gathered the most direct evidence yet of a supermassive black hole shredding a star that wandered too close.
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Craig Jones on 05/03 at 10:04 AM
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Wednesday, April 04, 2012
The first large-scale U.S.-based study to evaluate the link between an injectable form of progestin-only birth control and breast cancer risk in young women has found that recent use of a year or more doubles the risk. The results of the study, led by breast cancer epidemiologist Christopher I. Li, M.D., Ph.D., of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, are published online ahead of the April 15 print issue of Cancer Research.
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Craig Jones on 04/04 at 12:44 PM
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Thursday, March 15, 2012
A new study investigating the mental processes underlying a wandering mind reports a role for working memory, a sort of a mental workspace that allows you to juggle multiple thoughts simultaneously.
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Craig Jones on 03/15 at 02:22 PM
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Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Almost 80 percent of current farmland in the U.S. would have to be devoted to raising corn for ethanol production in order to meet current biofuel production targets with existing technology, a new study has found. An alternative, according to a study in ACS’ journal Environmental Science & Technology, would be to convert 60 percent of existing rangeland to biofuels.
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Craig Jones on 02/29 at 01:00 PM
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Friday, February 24, 2012
A new study that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology’s 64th Annual Meeting in New Orleans in April links migraines with depression in women.
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Craig Jones on 02/24 at 11:55 AM
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Two more journalists have died in the Syria uprising, this time not from a medical emergency like Anthony Shadid, but from rocket fire directed at protestors in the city of Homs.
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Thom Canalichio on 02/22 at 03:37 PM
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