AFP – US videogame sales in January slipped to 1.17 billion dollars, a 13 percent…
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Do speedy elephants walk or run?
Scientists answer the weighty question of whether fast-moving elephants walk or run.
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French figure skater scores with online skinny dip (Reuters)
Reuters – The online advert said he was looking for a skinny girl to share…
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Psychosocial problems are common in children with dental fear
Children and adolescents with severe dental fear often come from families with a turbulent background….
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Resistant wheat goes for the gut to protect against Hessian flies
Resistant wheat plants stave off attacks by Hessian fly larvae by essentially destroying the fly’s…
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Prepregnancy, obesity and gestational weight gain influence risk of preterm birth
Researchers have found that prepregnancy obesity and gestational weight gain are associated with an increased…
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NASA successfully launches a new eye on the sun
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, has lifted off on a first-of-a-kind mission to reveal…
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Blood clotting finding may lead to new treatments
A key protein that causes the blood to clot is produced by blood vessels in…
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How brain hears the sound of silence: Separate brain pathways process the start and end of what we hear
Researchers have isolated an independent processing channel of synapses inside the brain’s auditory cortex that…
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Google rebuts DOJ objections to digital book deal (AP)
AP – Google Inc. wants the digital rights to millions of books badly enough that…