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A team or researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison is extracting the chemical details of life history from the teeth of crew members Christopher Columbus left on the island of Hispaniola after his second voyage to America in 1493-94.
“This is telling us about where people came from and what they ate as children,” explains T. [...]

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Another effect of warming? That’s the suspicion, but the other problem is that you tree huggers aren’t keeping up with the tree deaths :P. Apparently sales jobs aren’t where you all work then? Just messing around. Good job planting that tree…lol
A new study led by the U.S. Geological Survey and involving the University of Colorado [...]

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When someone tells me that they were off by maybe 5-10% I can sort of understand when it comes to space. Apparently we were off by a hell of a lot more. Like 50% off.
Astronomers arrived at the new mass by using the National Science Foundation’s Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) radio telescope [...]

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A new study by researchers at the Joslin Diabetes Center has shown that a protein known for inducing bone growth can also help promote the development of brown fat, which is considered a “good” fat that helps in the expenditure of energy and plays a role in fighting obesity.
Yu-Hua Tseng, Ph.D. an Assistant Investigator [...]

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Ever since we were students in elementary school science classes worrying more about acne cream than science, we have been aware that continents have been drifting away from each other for hundreds of millions of years. Also, we all know of the fact that we may have once been connected to every other continent in [...]

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Well now…this is something that we should all be interested in. This is the first to show that induced stem cells or iPS cells, which don’t involve the use of embryos or eggs, can be differentiated into the three types of cardiovascular cells needed to repair the heart and blood vessels. Stem cell researches at [...]

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Researchers of have discovered that an old adage is actually correct for once. Researchers studying deer mice have discovered evidence to support what mothers everywhere have long suspected: the immune system needs food to function properly. In a new study Lynn Martin and coauthors find that reduced food intake leads to a decline in immune [...]

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