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News | Archive (4 September 2010)
Americans struggle with long-term weight loss
— 11:12 GMT | HealthOnly about one in every six Americans who have ever been overweight or obese loses weight and maintains that loss, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers…
NASA imagery reveals a weaker, stretched out Fiona
— 11:09 GMT | EnvironmentNASA satellite data has noticed that Tropical Storm Fiona is getting 'longer.' That is, the storm is elongating in almost a north-south direction, indicating that she's weakening and may not make it through the weekend. Meanwhile, forecasters are watching two other areas for development in the eastern Atlantic this weekend…
Sustainable farming options snap open for bivalves
— 11:06 GMT | EnvironmentTwo sets of global standards - one for pangasius farming and the other for bivalve farming - were finalised today by the Aquaculture Dialogues…
Induced pluripotent stem cell retain an inactivated X chromosome
— 11:03 GMT | HealthFemale induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, reprogrammed from human skin cells into cells that have the embryonic-like potential to become any cell in the body, retain an inactive X chromosome, stem cell researchers at UCLA have found…
Big dry and legal doubts fuel progress to new forest burn boom in Brazil
— 11:00 GMT | EnvironmentHigh temperatures, low humidity and uncertainty over the future of forest laws are fuelling a boost in forest fires over much of Brazil…
Death of the 'doughnut'
— 10:57 GMT | EnvironmentSomething has been eating Charlie Kerfoot's doughnut, and all fingers point to a European mollusc about the size of a fat lima bean…
MIT moves toward greener chemistry
— 10:54 GMT | ChemistryPhosphorus, a mineral element found in rocks and bone, is a critical ingredient in fertilisers, pesticides, detergents and other industrial and household chemicals. Once phosphorus is mined from rocks, getting it into these products is hazardous and expensive, and chemists have been trying to streamline the process for decades…
Transition metal catalysts could be key to origin of life, scientists report
— 10:51 GMT | BiologyOne of the big, unsolved problems in explaining how life arose on Earth is a chicken-and-egg paradox: How could the basic biochemicals - such as amino acids and nucleotides - have arisen before the biological catalysts (proteins or ribozymes) existed to carry out their formation?…
Verbal snippets offer insights on well-being amid separation, divorce
— 10:48 GMT | HealthA new study from the University of Arizona shows that people in the midst of a divorce typically reveal how they are handling things - not so much by what they say but how they say it…
Tropical forests slashed for farmland
— 10:45 GMT | EnvironmentGlobal agricultural expansion cut a wide swath through tropical forests during the 1980s and 1990s. Over half a million square miles of new farmland - an area roughly the size of Alaska - was created in the developing world between 1980 and 2000, of which over 80 percent was carved out of tropical forests, according to Stanford researcher Holly Gibbs…
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