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Buck Privates Require Buck Rogers
Tue March 16, 2010. 07:03 PM
At the American Museum of Natural History on March 15th, retired Air Force General Lester Lyles talked about how the military came to understand during the first Iraq war the importance of spacefaring capability for everything involved in conducting its operations. Steve Mirsky reports.
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Your Microbes Give You Away
Tue March 16, 2010. 02:52 AM
In a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers note that we each carry a unique microbial community--and that the bacterial residue we leave could be used to make forensic identifications. Karen Hopkin reports.
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Texas Messes with History
Mon March 15, 2010. 06:15 AM
Long a proponent of including nonscientific creationism in the biology curriculum, the Texas State Board of Education last week further illustrated its willingness to sacrifice accuracy for ideology by excluding Thomas Jefferson from a list of influential historical figures. Steve Mirsky reports
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Mine Injuries Rise Right After Daylight Saving Time
Fri March 12, 2010. 08:30 AM
In a study in the Journal of Applied Psychology, researchers found that the Monday after the change to Daylight Saving Time is marked by an increase in work-related injuries. Steve Mirsky reports.
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Arranged Marriages Can Be Real Love Connection
Thu March 11, 2010. 05:30 AM
Speaking March 10th at the 92nd Street Y's Tribeca site in New York City, Scientific American Mind contributing editor Robert Epstein discussed how arranged marriages can surpass love matches for long-term contentment. Steve Mirsky reports
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Message to Mosquitoes: Urine Trouble
Wed March 10, 2010. 04:50 AM
In a study in the American Journal of Physiology--Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, researchers report a novel method for killing disease-carrying mosquitoes: interfere with urination. Cynthia Graber reports
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Does Getting Fat Protect against Fat?
Tue March 09, 2010. 03:10 AM
In a paper in the journal Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism, researchers argue that getting fat is the body's way of storing fat correctly, and that metabolic problems kick in when we get so fat that fat infiltrates organs not equipped to deal with it. Karen Hopkin reports
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Attention Shoppers: You Underestimated Your Bill
Mon March 08, 2010. 03:27 AM
A study in the Journal of Marketing shows that shoppers are not good at estimating the total cost of what they have in their shopping carts. Karen Hopkin reports
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Mosquitoes, Not Birds, Made West Nile National
Fri March 05, 2010. 04:40 AM
A study in the journal Molecular Ecology looked at West Nile Virus spread versus bird migration patterns and mosquito movement and concluded mosquitoes, not birds, were probably the primary vector for taking the disease coast to coast in just five years. Adam Hinterthuer reports.
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Recycling Some Hospital Waste (Not The Really Gross Kind)
Wed March 03, 2010. 07:03 PM
A study in the journal Academic Medicine shows that millions of dollars and pounds of refuse can be saved by recycling some medically related waste that often gets thrown away without even being used. Cynthia Graber reports.
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Whale Predecessors Had 100-Million-Year Run
Tue March 02, 2010. 07:03 PM
A study in the journal Science shows that bony fish filter-feeders spent 100 million years developing and occupying the niche that baleen whales do now. Another Science study finds that whale diversity has been determined by the types of tiny organisms they eat. Cynthia Graber reports.
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Sinking Ships Imply Atruism Takes Time
Mon March 01, 2010. 07:20 PM
A study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences looked at the survival rates of men, woman and children from Titanic and the Lusitania, and found more men stayed alive when the ship went down fast, and panic overtook chivalry. Karen Hopkin reports.
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Bigger Animals Keep a Stiff Lower Foot
Mon March 01, 2010. 04:10 AM
A study in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface found that as mammalian animals increase in size, their feet do not scale up accordingly--but there is a general increase in the stiffness of the footpad. Karen Hopkin reports.
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Super Chicken Vision
Fri February 26, 2010. 05:43 AM
A study in the journal Public Library of Science ONE finds that chickens have additional retinal cones compared with us, which allows them to discern additional colors. Karen Hopkin reports.
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End of the World [1999 Edition]
Wed February 24, 2010. 07:03 PM
At the recent meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Stony Brook University's Robert Crease talked about how a 1999 article in Scientific American, on Brookhaven National Laboratory's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, and a future Nobel Laureate got a few people thinking the planet was in jeopardy. Steve Mirsky reports.
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To Learn Better, Sleep On It
Wed February 24, 2010. 06:58 AM
Naps help move new info from short-term memory storage in the hippocampus to long-term storage in the cortex, said UC Berkeley's Matthew Walker at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Deigo on February 21st. (In other words, zzzz's help the three R's.) Christie Nicholson reports.
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Immigrant Dust Feeds Rain Forests
Mon February 22, 2010. 07:03 PM
Intercontinental dust helps fertilize lush forests in the western hemisphere and Hawaii, noted Oliver Chadwick of the University of California, Santa Barbara, at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Deigo on February 19th. Steve Mirsky reports.
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Despite Climategate, IPPC Mostly Underestimates Climate Change
Mon February 22, 2010. 03:46 AM
Speaking at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, James McCarthy of the Harvard Medical School Center for Health and the Global Environment noted that the IPCC usually errs on the conservative side. Steve Mirsky reports.
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Finches Seek Out Sick Dining Companions
Thu February 18, 2010. 07:03 PM
A study in the journal Biology Letters finds that male finches prefer dining next to a sick bird despite the risk of infection, probably because the lethargic companion is less likely to engage in food fights. Karen Hopkin reports
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Murchison Meteorite's Chemical Bonanza
Wed February 17, 2010. 07:03 PM
The 1969 Murchison meteorite was known to harbor complex organic compounds, but a new analysis in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that it may also contain millions of chemicals and shed light on the timeline of the kinds of chemistry that went on in a much earlier universe. Adam Hinterthuer reports
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