Despite medical advances, the treatment of many chronic diseases remains haphazard and inconsistent. Teenagers with Crohn’s disease, a painful digestive disorder often diagnosed in adolescence, for example, sometimes get conflicting information regarding medications, diet modifications and alternative therapies.
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We are social animals.
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We are social animals. So you might assume our brains are built to excel when we cooperate with each other, as opposed to when we function in isolation
Read More »CT Scans of Baby Mammoths Reveal Ice Age Mystery
CT scan of baby woolly mammoth named Lyuba LAS VEGAS Computed tomography (CT) scans of two extraordinarily well-preserved baby woolly mammoths from Siberia have yielded startling new insights into these iconic Ice Age beasts. Previously examinations of the external features of the mammoths suggested that the two creatures were quite similar, exhibiting the same developmental stage and similar age at death. But the new full-body scans the first ever obtained for largely intact mammoths tell a different story.
Read More »CT Scans of Baby Mammoths Reveal Ice Age Mystery
CT scan of baby woolly mammoth named Lyuba LAS VEGAS Computed tomography (CT) scans of two extraordinarily well-preserved baby woolly mammoths from Siberia have yielded startling new insights into these iconic Ice Age beasts.
Read More »Olympians of the Sky
Climbers struggling the last few steps to the peak of Makalu in the Himalayas have long marveled at the sight of bar-headed geese flying high above to their winter refuge in India. The birds cruise at an altitude of 29,500 feet, nearly as high as commercial aircraft
Read More »Protein May Make UV Exposure Safer In Morning
The early bird gets the worm--and may avoid skin cancer. Because a new mouse study suggests that, for humans, tanning in the mornings may be less likely to permanently damage DNA and cause skin cancer
Read More »Why Daylight Saving Time Should Be Abolished
It’s that time of year in the U.S.
Read More »Where Coal Is King in China
HOHHOT, China -- It was late spring, and armed police were barring Inner Mongolia University students from leaving campus to protest the death of a herder run over by a coal truck. Students amassed in towns across the province to condemn coal companies they accused of riding roughshod over livestock grazing land
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HOHHOT, China -- It was late spring, and armed police were barring Inner Mongolia University students from leaving campus to protest the death of a herder run over by a coal truck. Students amassed in towns across the province to condemn coal companies they accused of riding roughshod over livestock grazing land.
Read More »Mummy Scan Diagnoses 1,900-Year-Old Child
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Read More »RIM’s Vision Of The Future Might Rely On Someone Else’s Goggles
[youtube Wr9mtir5648] RIM has a PR problem: A couple of videos, filmed and rendered in the emerging-as-classic "what the future will be like"-style overlayed with electro-orchestral music, have leaked online. They're called Future Visions, and RIM's already issued a couple of copyright requests to YouTube to have some versions taken down.
Read More »RIM’s Vision Of The Future Might Rely On Someone Else’s Goggles
[youtube Wr9mtir5648] RIM has a PR problem: A couple of videos, filmed and rendered in the emerging-as-classic "what the future will be like"-style overlayed with electro-orchestral music, have leaked online. They're called Future Visions, and RIM's already issued a couple of copyright requests to YouTube to have some versions taken down.
Read More »This Week In Bots: Don’t Take This The Wrong Way, But You’re A Terminator, Right?
PETMAN Cometh Come on, Boston Dynamic! Who are you trying to kid? You tell us PETMAN is the latest evolution of your human-form android that uses similar tech to your military BigDog, and that he's a development from an earlier prototype that included just legs. You point out that by adding a torso, arms, realistic walking, running, crawling, push-ups, and staggering motions (to avoid a fall if pushed) as well as synthetic sweat glands, he's perfectly designed to test out military clothing and hardware in lab situations
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