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The Ideal Temperature For Keeping Fungi Away And Hunger At BayBronx NY (SPX) Dec 29, 2010 Two researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have found that our 98.6C F (37C C) body temperature strikes a perfect balance: warm enough to ward off fungal infection but not so hot that we need to eat nonstop to maintain our metabolism. "One of the mysteries about humans and other advanced mammals has been why they are so hot compared with other animals," said study co-author Arturo Casadevall, M.D., Ph.D., professor and chair of microbiology and immunology at Einst ... read more |
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  Sand from Bangladesh may boost Maldives Sand from Bangladesh may help to keep the Maldives above water under a proposed agreement between the two countries, an official said. ... more | .. |
  Placebo Effect Works With Or Without Forewarning For most of us, the "placebo effect" is synonymous with the power of positive thinking; it works because you believe you're taking a real drug. But a new study rattles this assumption. Researc ... more | .. |
  Long Lasting Chemicals Threaten The Environment And Human Health Every hour, an enormous quantity and variety of manmade chemicals, having reached the end of their useful lifespan, flood into wastewater treatment plants. These large-scale processing facilities, h ... more | .. |
 You Are What Your Father Ate Scientists at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and the University of Texas at Austin have uncovered evidence that environmental influences experienced by a father can be passed down to ... more |
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 Designer Probiotics Could Reduce Obesity Specially designed probiotics can modulate the physiology of host fat cells say scientists writing in Microbiology. The findings could lead to specialised probiotics that have a role in the preventi ... more | .. |
  Comprehensive Report On Sudden Oak Death Synthesizing more than 10 years of cooperative research on the exotic invasive, quarantine sudden oak death pathogen, the USDA Forest Service's Pacific Southwest Research Station (PSW) recently publ ... more | .. |
  New species abound in Peru, but so do threats Each year, a new bird is found and every four years a new mammal discovered in the Peruvian Amazon, a haven for biodiversity where conservation and danger often go hand in hand. ... more | .. |
  Nobel laureate Liu celebrates 55th birthday in prison Jailed Nobel peace laureate Liu Xiaobo marked his 55th birthday on Tuesday in a prison in northeast China, prompting renewed calls from rights groups for his immediate release. ... more |
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  Scuffles break out in Moscow airports amid delays Scuffles broke out Tuesday at Moscow's two main airports as a third day of major delays prompted Russia to open a probe into how a spell of freezing rain could bring air traffic to a virtual standstill. ... more | .. |
  Japan postpones launch of emission trading system: reports Japan on Tuesday postponed the creation of a greenhouse gas emission trading system by a year until after April 2014 in the face of strong resistance from the business lobby, news reports said. ... more | .. |
 China's Zijin Mining makes payout over deadly dam collapse China's Zijin Mining said Tuesday it would pay out about 7.5 million US dollars to help victims of a dam collapse near a tin mine that killed at least 22 people. ... more | .. |
  Polar Bears No Longer On Thin Ice In the snowy spring of 2009, Portland-based wildlife biologist Bruce Marcot traveled with several colleagues onto the frozen Arctic Ocean north of Alaska to study and survey polar bear populations. ... more |
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 Study: Dams will damage Peru's environment Environmentalists say construction of five hydroelectric dams in Peru as part of an energy agreement with Brazil will damage the environment. ... more | .. |
 -chasing-condont-early-vertebrate-bg.jpg) Pterygotid Sea Scorpions No Longer Terror Of The Ancient Seas Experiments by a team of researchers in New York and New Jersey have generated evidence that questions the common belief that the pterygotid eurypterids ("sea scorpions") were high-level predators i ... more | .. |
  Religious fighting threatens Nigeria poll Bloody clashes between Christians and Muslims during the Christmas holiday threaten to mar Nigeria's presidential primaries set for Jan. 13 and have heightened political and religious tensions between the Christian south and the Muslim north. ... more | .. |
 Potent GHG Emissions Could Be Three Times Estimated Levels In a study published December 20 in the Proceedings of the National Academy Sciences (PNAS), a team of researchers including University of New Hampshire scientists Wilfred Wollheim, William McDowell ... more |
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  Season's Greetings: NASA Views The Change Of Seasons The change of seasons on Earth has been a cause for celebration since time immemorial. Caused by the tilt of Earth's axis relative to its orbital plane around the sun, seasons have profound ch ... more | .. |
 TanDEM-X Ready For Routine Operations In 2011 On 14 December 2010, TanDEM-X passed another important milestone: the radar mission's test phase has concluded in less than six months according to plan, paving the way for routine operations - the ... more | .. |
 Mozambique's war-hit Gorongosa park slowly recovers As warthogs play in the mud behind him, park ranger Charles Pereira Aranje scans the savannah for poachers, while waterbuck and reedbuck antelopes graze in the grass. ... more | .. |
 ESA Unveils Latest Map Of World's Land Cover ESA's 2009 global land cover map has been released and is now available to the public online from the 'GlobCover' website. GlobCover 2009 proves the sharpest possible global land cover map can ... more |
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 For Egypt, new Sudan state threat to Nile The expected emergence of a new state in southern Sudan following a January independence referendum is causing alarm in Cairo because the signs are the infant state will join other African countries battling Egypt for a greater share of the Nile River's waters. ... more | .. |
  Irrigation pump helps rural Indian farmers For rural farmers in India, an irrigation pump means no longer having to depend on unreliable monsoon showers to sustain livelihoods. ... more | .. |
 Expert warns on China's future food supply Land degradation in China poses a challenge to the country's future food supply, a U.N. envoy said. ... more | .. |
  Guns to fight Somali pirates seized in S.Africa: police South African police said Monday they had arrested four people over an illegal arms cache that investigators believe was being shipped to Somalia to help fight piracy. ... more |
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