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Just days after inauguration, it’s looking increasingly like President Barack Obama’s pick for NASA administrator may fail to launch. Retired Air Force General Jonathan Scott Gration, a former fighter pilot and Obama’s buddy, …
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Monday, January 26th, 2009
In these belt-tightening times I’m cutting back a lot on conferences. But not ETech — that’s the one event I have to attend each year if I’m to fully recharge my ideas battery. It’s also been a pleasure and privilege to once again act …
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Although the Inuit people of the North American Arctic are generally thought to be vulnerable to climate change, particularly in the wake of record sea ice loss, it can be difficult to quantify all of the risks to their way of life. …
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Monday, January 26th, 2009
The UK will get an intriguing new climate research centre next week, with the launch of the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy at the London School of Economics and the University of Leeds. In a Q&A for Nature Reports …
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Monday, January 26th, 2009
Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) announced today the discovery of a new class of small RNAs and the presence of a strikingly novel biochemical pathway for RNA processing in which these and possibly other small RNAs are produced. The research, which is part of a multinational project called ENCODE, was published online on Jan. 25 in Nature. These findings significantly improve our understanding of how functional information is stored in the genome.
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Monday, January 26th, 2009
School children who receive more recess behave better and are likely to learn more, according to a large study of third-graders conducted by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University.
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Monday, January 26th, 2009
A genomewide scan of millions of genetic mutations has revealed four new DNA “hotspots” that affect the risk for psoriasis, a national group of researchers led by the University of Michigan and including several from the University of Utah School of Medicine has shown in a just-published study.
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A study published in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society suggested that the use of certain medications in elderly populations may be associated with cognitive decline. The study examined the effects of exposure to anticholinergic medications, a type of drug used to treat a variety of disorders that include respiratory and gastrointestinal problems, on over 500 relatively healthy men age 65 years or older with high blood pressure.
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The American population as a whole is no happier than it was three decades ago. But happiness inequality — the gap between the happy and the not-so-happy — has narrowed significantly.
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