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Now if you are a smoker you have a great excuse not to quit right? Obviously that isn’t the case, but a study recently suggests that the consumption of soy products could greatly reduce the risk in smokers of lung damage.
People who eat lots of soy products have better lung function and are less [...]

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Well…more great news for those that want human life to end. The Greenland ice sheet, according to a new study led by a University of Alaska Fairbanks researcher and published in the journal Hydrological Processes, suggests that it is melting faster than expected.
It also states that the melting may have caused almost 25 percent of [...]

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Was reading Science News today and saw at the bottom of the page a pretty neat interactive Darwin Timeline (Beware that this is a slideshow and will pop up as such. It doesn’t actually have it’s own web page although the link will take you to the timeline over the top of sciencenews.org home page.)
It [...]

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Recording that were made over 150 years ago were revealed at the May 29th annual meeting of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections, are the earliest known recordings. A bunch of wavy lines scratched by a stylus onto fragile paper that had been blackened by the soot from an oil lamp date from 1857. That’s [...]

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Well…maybe a show tune for a blue whale. I cannot be sure what the whale artistic expression is like, nor what they consider entertainment ;).
For the very first time in New York coastal waters, the voices of singing blue whales have been positively identified. Acoustic experts at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Bioacoustics Research Program [...]

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Have you ever been sitting on the couch and increasing your body mass by drinking Mt. Dew and stuffing cheeseburgers into your face only to find that you can’t find the remote, it is too light in the room because you don’t have any pants on, and the curtains are open? Well things may be [...]

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A recent study suggest that the inexpensive plastic used in CDs, and DVDs could soon improve the integrity of airplane electronics, computers, and other electronics like iPhones.
The U.S. Air Force has offerd a pair of grants to Shay Curran, associate professor of physics at the University of Houston, where his research team have demonstrated ultra-high [...]

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Growth of tissue and organs has a bit of a glitch that makes it hard to recreate certain tissues. Our body tissues have both hard and soft tissues that are not easy to replicate with compatible characteristics.
A new study may have helped progress that problem and we may be even closer to compatibility than [...]

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Out of Washington University in St. Louis, a new bimetallic fuel cell catalyst is being developed that is said to be two to five times more effective than current commercial catalysts. The new catalyst is robust and much more efficient than the current wholesale catalysts currently in use.
Younan Xia, Ph.D., the James M. McKelvey [...]

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Yes we are always called fat Americans by many other people from other countries. They like to throw in that we are lazy as well just to make it more dramatic, but a new study shows that increased calorie intake alone shows the rise in average weight for Americans over the last 30 years.
Obviously, [...]

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