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Smells Like Home: For Fish, Reefs Are Unique
by John Nielsen
All Things Considered, January 11, 2007 · Coral reefs may all smell the same to humans. But to some fish, reefs' smells have distinct qualities — even when they're several hundred miles away.
A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences argues that some reef fish use smelly ocean currents the way New Yorkers use their subway lines — as the quickest way home.
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Thursday, January 11, 2007
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Ex-cons face steep risk of death
By Karen AugeDenver Post Staff Writer
Article Last Updated: 01/10/2007 05:51:54 PM MST
If there is anything more risky than going to prison, it may be getting out of prison, a new study shows. In the first two weeks after release, former inmates die at a rate 13 times that of the general population, a University of Colorado researcher has found. The leading cause of death among former inmates is - by a whopping margin - drug overdose. And the most common deadly drug is cocaine, according to the study by Dr. Ingrid Binswanger (University of Colorado at Denver & Health Sciences Center) which will appear in this week's New England Journal of Medicine.
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Ex-cons face steep risk of death
By Karen AugeDenver Post Staff Writer
Article Last Updated: 01/10/2007 05:51:54 PM MST
If there is anything more risky than going to prison, it may be getting out of prison, a new study shows. In the first two weeks after release, former inmates die at a rate 13 times that of the general population, a University of Colorado researcher has found. The leading cause of death among former inmates is - by a whopping margin - drug overdose. And the most common deadly drug is cocaine, according to the study by Dr. Ingrid Binswanger (University of Colorado at Denver & Health Sciences Center) which will appear in this week's New England Journal of Medicine.
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Wednesday, January 10, 2007
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Sobriety helps alcoholic brain rebound, study shows
By Melissa Healy Los Angeles Times
Article Last Updated: 01/07/2007 12:38:22 PM MST
In addition to claiming lives, marriages, homes and careers, alcoholism has a greedy way of robbing its victims of brainpower. Over time, alcohol dependence literally shrinks the brain and several of its components. In so doing, it erodes an alcoholic's ability to learn new tasks, remember things and organize for action. Even regular heavy drinking can take a cognitive toll, researchers have found.
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Read the research behind this story in the journal Brain
Sobriety helps alcoholic brain rebound, study shows
By Melissa Healy Los Angeles Times
Article Last Updated: 01/07/2007 12:38:22 PM MST
In addition to claiming lives, marriages, homes and careers, alcoholism has a greedy way of robbing its victims of brainpower. Over time, alcohol dependence literally shrinks the brain and several of its components. In so doing, it erodes an alcoholic's ability to learn new tasks, remember things and organize for action. Even regular heavy drinking can take a cognitive toll, researchers have found.
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Kids at home could mean higher-fat diet
By AMY LORENTZEN Association Press Writer
Adults living with children tend to eat more fat than grown-ups in kid-free homes, consuming as much additional saturated fat each week as found in an individual-size pizza, a new study suggests.
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Kids at home could mean higher-fat diet
By AMY LORENTZEN Association Press Writer
Adults living with children tend to eat more fat than grown-ups in kid-free homes, consuming as much additional saturated fat each week as found in an individual-size pizza, a new study suggests.
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Tuesday, January 9, 2007
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Report says bias taints industry-paid studies
By Marilynn Marchione The Associated Press
Article Last Updated: 01/08/2007 07:49:26 PM MST
Does milk lower blood pressure? Does juice prevent heart disease? Beverage studies were four to eight times as likely to reach sweet conclusions about health effects when industry was footing the bill, a new report contends.
Its authors claim to have done the first systematic analysis of such studies published from 1999 through 2003 in hundreds of journals around the world.
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NPR Morning Edition, January 9, 2007.
A new study, co-authored by Harvard researchers and analysts from the Center for Science in thePublic Interest, suggests there's a systematic bias in nutrition studies funded by food companies.
Report says bias taints industry-paid studies
By Marilynn Marchione The Associated Press
Article Last Updated: 01/08/2007 07:49:26 PM MST
Does milk lower blood pressure? Does juice prevent heart disease? Beverage studies were four to eight times as likely to reach sweet conclusions about health effects when industry was footing the bill, a new report contends.
Its authors claim to have done the first systematic analysis of such studies published from 1999 through 2003 in hundreds of journals around the world.
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Read the journal article behind this story in PLoS Medicine
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NPR Morning Edition, January 9, 2007.
A new study, co-authored by Harvard researchers and analysts from the Center for Science in thePublic Interest, suggests there's a systematic bias in nutrition studies funded by food companies.
Monday, January 8, 2007
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Stem-cell find skirts fray
By Karen Kaplan Los Angeles Times
Article Last Updated: 01/07/2007 09:47:59 PM MST
Researchers have found stem cells in human amniotic fluid that appear to have many of the key benefits of embryonic stem cells while avoiding their knottiest ethical, medical and logistical drawbacks, according to a study published Sunday.
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Stem-cell find skirts fray
By Karen Kaplan Los Angeles Times
Article Last Updated: 01/07/2007 09:47:59 PM MST
Researchers have found stem cells in human amniotic fluid that appear to have many of the key benefits of embryonic stem cells while avoiding their knottiest ethical, medical and logistical drawbacks, according to a study published Sunday.
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Friday, January 5, 2007
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Climate gurus see a record warm-up for 2007
By Raphael G. Satter The Associated Press
Article Launched: 01/04/2007 09:28:00 PM MST
Deepening drought in Australia. Stronger typhoons in Asia. Floods in Latin America. British climate scientists predict that a resurgent El Niño climate trend combined with higher levels of greenhouse gases could touch off a fresh round of ecological disasters - and make 2007 the world's hottest year on record. "Even a moderate (El Niño) warming event is enough to push the global temperatures over the top," said Phil Jones, director of the Climatic Research unit at the University of East Anglia.
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Climate gurus see a record warm-up for 2007
By Raphael G. Satter The Associated Press
Article Launched: 01/04/2007 09:28:00 PM MST
Deepening drought in Australia. Stronger typhoons in Asia. Floods in Latin America. British climate scientists predict that a resurgent El Niño climate trend combined with higher levels of greenhouse gases could touch off a fresh round of ecological disasters - and make 2007 the world's hottest year on record. "Even a moderate (El Niño) warming event is enough to push the global temperatures over the top," said Phil Jones, director of the Climatic Research unit at the University of East Anglia.
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Thursday, January 4, 2007
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Scientists' hypothesis of Saturn's big moon holds fluid
Denver Post 1-4-07
As scientists predicted but have had a hard time proving, the surface of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, appears to be dotted with an abundance of lakes of liquid methane. The lakes are more intriguing evidence of the active phenomena at play on the only moon in the solar system that has a dense atmosphere.
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The lakes of Titan
Planetary science: Titan's lost seas found
Scientists' hypothesis of Saturn's big moon holds fluid
Denver Post 1-4-07
As scientists predicted but have had a hard time proving, the surface of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, appears to be dotted with an abundance of lakes of liquid methane. The lakes are more intriguing evidence of the active phenomena at play on the only moon in the solar system that has a dense atmosphere.
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Read the research articles behind this story in Nature
The lakes of Titan
Planetary science: Titan's lost seas found
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Study Describes an Iranian Oil Industry in Decline
NPR Morning Edition, January 4, 2007 · Geographer Roger Stern has produced a study predicting a sharp decline in the ability of Iran to export oil in the coming years.
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Study Describes an Iranian Oil Industry in Decline
NPR Morning Edition, January 4, 2007 · Geographer Roger Stern has produced a study predicting a sharp decline in the ability of Iran to export oil in the coming years.
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Wednesday, January 3, 2007
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Cows engineered for immunity to Mad Cow Disease
January 3, 2007 · Scientists have created a dozen cattle that seem to be immune to mad cow disease. The animals, now 2 years old, have been genetically engineered to lack the protein that's susceptible to the disease.
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Cows engineered for immunity to Mad Cow Disease
January 3, 2007 · Scientists have created a dozen cattle that seem to be immune to mad cow disease. The animals, now 2 years old, have been genetically engineered to lack the protein that's susceptible to the disease.
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Read the research article behind this story in Nature Biotechnology
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