The Martian volcano Olympus Mons is about three times the height of Mount Everest, but it’s the small details that astronomers are looking at in thinking about whether the Red Planet ever had — or still supports — life.
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Scientists in Italy are reporting development and successful use of a fast new method to identify food additives that act as so-called “xenoestrogens” — substances with estrogen-like effects that are stirring international health concerns. They used the method in a large-scale screening of additives that discovered two additives with previously unrecognized xenoestrogen effects.
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Believing in God can help block anxiety and minimize stress, according to new research that shows distinct brain differences between believers and non-believers.
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Lizards living in tropical forests in Central and South America and the Caribbean could be in serious peril from rising temperatures associated with climate change. In fact, those forest lizards appear to tolerate a much narrower range of survivable temperatures than do their relatives at higher latitudes and are actually less tolerant of high temperatures, [...]
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Men and women who consume two or more alcoholic drinks a day could increase their risk of developing pancreatic cancer, according to a new study.
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In 2006, Americans were exposed to more than seven times as much ionizing radiation from medical procedures as was the case in the early 1980s, according to a new report. In 2006, medical exposure constituted nearly half of the total radiation exposure of the U.S. population from all sources.
Scientists at the American Association of Physicists in Medicine are offering additional background information to help the public avoid misinterpreting the findings contained in a report issued today by the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP), a non-profit body chartered by the US Congress to make recommendations on radiation protection and measurements. The [...]
The next time a contractor tells you the kitchen remodeling will be done in six weeks, you might ask him to get real and reconsider his estimate.
The water levels in the Dead Sea - the deepest point on Earth - are dropping at an alarming rate with serious environmental consequences, according to new research. The projected Dead Sea-Red Sea or Mediterranean-Dead Sea Channels therefore need a significant carrying capacity to re-fill the Dead Sea to its former level, in order to [...]
Protecting drinking water and preventing harmful coastal “dead zones,” as well as eutrophication in many lakes, will require reducing both nitrogen and phosphorus pollution.
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