A group of critics of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) decision to regulate greenhouse…
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Humans, zebrafish, and other vertebrates host “viral fossils” in their DNA
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Virus passed from monkeys to chimps about 22,000 years ago
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Researchers examine a curious case at a Canadian aquarium
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Pups who gnaw on bones develop shorter and thicker skulls
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Highly impulsive individuals have fewer dopamine receptors in a key brain area; pharma starts limiting development of new drugs for central nervous system disorders; your Letters to Science; and more.
With the cap-and-trade option for carbon reduction buried in the U.S. Senate at least…
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Signs of reversal of Arctic cooling: Rapid temperature rise in the coldest region of mainland Europe
Parts of the Arctic have cooled over the past century, but temperatures have been rising steeply since 1990, according to a summer temperature reconstruction for the past 400 years produced on the base of tree rings from regions beyond the Arctic Circle.
Among adolescents, visual acuity tests appear to reliably detect vision problems caused by nearsightedness but not farsightedness or astigmatism, according to a new study.
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Tens of thousands of chemical and biochemical experiments may be conducted daily with the use of a microflow system of the size of a credit card, developed by scientists in Poland. The device has already been tested in research on the effectiveness of antibiotic mixtures.