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While we all knew Australians were bad, I’m stunned at the rating giving to New Zealand! And it’s funny how everyone has it in the neck for the US, but look at who’s ranked first and third.

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John McCain is not talking straight about stem cells these days. In the last presidential debate he emphatically voiced his support for “stem cell research.” Given that he conveniently left off the word “embryonic” that’s kind of like …

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Researchers at the University of Illinois have found that measuring the quality of romantic relationships is more complex than earlier studies suggest.

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Excess vitamin E can promote bleeding by interfering with vitamin K. Nutrition researcher Maret Traber reviews some possible explanations.

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Allowing joint bidding helps reduce potential mismatch between an e-tailer’s costs and the consumer’s bids on name-your-own-price websites like Priceline, according to the Management Insights feature in the current issue of Management Science, the flagship journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.

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Small islands dwarf large ones in archaeological importance, says a University of Florida researcher, who found that people who settled the Caribbean before Christopher Columbus preferred more minute pieces of land because they relied heavily on the sea.

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In trying to find out why HER2-positive breast cancer can be more aggressive than other forms of the disease, UC Davis Cancer Center researchers have surprisingly discovered that HER2 itself is the culprit.

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Two years’ of global public debate over the cause of the Java mud volcano, Lusi, has concluded.

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The deadly Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, which claimed more than 200,000 lives, was not the first of its size to hit the region, according to newresearch by an international research team led by Dr. Karin Monecke, a former post-doctoral geologist at Kent State University.The research work, which is published in this week’s edition of the prestigious science journal Nature, was conducted during the two and halfyears Monecke spent in the Kent State’s Department of Geology.

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The world’s rarest big cat is alive and well. At least one of them, that is, according to researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society who captured and released a female Far Eastern leopard in Russia last week.

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