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Infrared imagery from NASA’s Aqua satellite revealed that Typhoon Mirinae’s cold thunderstorm clouds were already over sections of the central and northern Philippines on Oct. 30 at 4:53 p.m. (Asia/Manila) local time. Mirinae is also known as “Santi” in the Philippines.

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Angry words and gestures are not the only way to get a sense of how temperamental a person is. According to new findings in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, a quick glance at someone’s facial structure may be enough for us to predict their tendency towards aggression.

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GEOLOGY covers a range of topics, including tsunami geomorphology, sag pond deposits, ooids and seawater chemistry, hillslope weathering, volcanoes and the nature of volcanic eruptions, minerals, marine sediments, paleoseismic faults, oxygen isotope records, bolide impact and banded iron formations, trace metal pollution from mining and metallurgy, tidal cycles, and Barchan dunes. The GSA TODAY science article focuses on microbial mats as evidence for early life and the Groundwork article asks key questions about CO2 sequestration.

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According to the Institute of Medicine, more than 90 million Americans suffer from low health literacy, a mismatch between patients’ abilities to understand health care information and providers’ abilities to communicate complex medical information in an understandable manner. In two recent studies, researchers at the University of Missouri found that two groups — those with limited English proficiency and those with disabilities — experience significantly lower health literacy than the general population.

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Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have shown that a highly specific intrabody (an antibody fragment that works against a target inside a cell) is capable of stalling the development of Huntington’s disease in a variety of mouse models. “Gene therapy in these models successfully attenuated the symptoms of Huntington’s disease and increased life span,” notes Paul Patterson, the Anne P. and Benjamin F. Biaggini Professor of Biological Sciences.

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With the rapidly increasing problem of cardiovascular (CVD) disease in Asia Pacific, there is an urgency to raise awareness of risk factors. The European Society of Cardiology is addressing the need to develop and adopt an integrated approach to CVD management, through important events organized in the region.

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Although declining streamflows and half-full reservoirs have gotten most of the attention in water conflicts around the United States, some of the worst battles of the next century may be over groundwater, experts say — a critical resource often taken for granted until it begins to run out. But lessons learned as oil was running out may offer some solutions.

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MedImmune announced today it will present four abstracts at the 47th Annual Meeting of Infectious Disease Society of America being held here Oct. 29-Nov. 1, 2009. These abstracts advance the body of data surrounding respiratory syncytial virus and influenza prevention, highlighting MedImmune’s leadership in pediatric health.

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Unnoticed by the nearby residents of St. Johnsbury, Vt., tiny leaf beetles that flit among the maple and willow trees in the area have just provided some of the clearest evidence yet that environmental factors play a major role in the formation of new species.

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A new study reveals the important role inherited wealth plays in sustaining economic inequality in small scale societies. A team of 26 anthropologists, statisticians and economists based at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico amassed an unprecedented data set allowing 43 estimates of a family’s wealth inheritance and found that financial inequality among populations largely depends on the “technologies” that produce a people’s livelihood.

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