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Modern nuclear techniques are giving the world’s scientists and regulators better tools to fight pollution and other environmental threats — even those that may be lurking naturally at the beach or near your backyard. Many of the world’s top “radioecologists” are in Morocco this week to assess a dynamic picture.

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A study of residential patterns in America suggests that White and Black Hispanics born in the US are more likely to share neighborhoods with native non-Hispanic Whites and African Americans, compared to foreign-born Hispanics — a pattern consistent with immigrant assimilation. Hispanics from Mexico in particular integrate consistently with all ethnic groups over generations.

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Involving men in family planning and partner communication about sex among topics to be presented by Georgetown University Medical Center researchers at world’s largest public health gathering.

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Involving men in family planning, partner communication about sex and sexual health, and tailoring teen specific reproductive health services are among the cutting-edge topics being presented by researchers from Georgetown University Medical Center’s Institute for Reproductive Health at the American Public Health Association’s 136th Annual Meeting Oct. 25-29 in San Diego — the world’s largest public health gathering.

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Researchers in Sweden are compiling a remarkable “atlas” that pinpoints the location of thousands of individual proteins in the body’s tissues and cells which will give scientists important insights into the function of different proteins and how changes in the distribution of proteins could be reflected in diseases such as cancer. Professor Mathias Uhlén of the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, who is leading the project, said, “We are trying to map the building blocks of life.”

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Scientists have discovered that a bone infection is caused by a newly described species of bacteria that is related to the tuberculosis pathogen. The discovery may help improve the diagnosis and treatment of similar infections, according to an article published in the October issue of the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology.

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Stunt pilots have raced against computer-generated opponents for the first time — in a contest that combines the real and the “virtual” at 250 miles per hour.

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A group of antibiotic natural products discovered at the Helmholtz Center for Infection Research in Braunschweig points out a new mode of action against pathogenic bacteria. Isolated from myxobacteria, the substances prevent an enzym of the pathogens from being able to translate their genetic material. In this way, the propagation of bacteria — such as tuberculosis pathogens — is inhibited. Today, the results are published in the distinguished journal Cell.

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The head of geography at the University of Leicester has addressed an international conference in Brazil on the use of modern radar technology for monitoring the rainforests.

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Research into tobacco dependence published online today in the November issue of Addiction, has shown that recent ex-smokers who find exposure to other people’s cigarette smoke pleasant are not any more likely to relapse than those who find it unpleasant.

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