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Stinging nettle chemical improves cancer drug
Posted: March 20, 2015A cancer drug could be made 50 times more effective by a chemical found in stinging nettles and ants, new research finds. Researchers at the University of Warwick found that when…
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Road kill: Recommendations to protect biodiversity
Posted: March 20, 2015Governments and donors must pay more attention to the environmental impact of road networks to limit their “devastating” effect on ecosystems, a study on global infrastructure expansion has warned. Road construction…
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NASA using space radar to track groundwater pollution risks
Posted: March 20, 2015Water is our most precious natural resource. Without clean water to drink human populations cannot exist. But our water supplies are under constant assault from anthropogenic pollution.When pollutants get into…
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Arctic sea ice continues to shrink
Posted: March 19, 2015Arctic sea ice shrank to the lowest winter extent ever recorded, according to data released today by the US-based National Snow and Ice Data Center. The record-low ice level follows…
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Electric Vehicles are Cool, Literally.
Posted: March 19, 2015A study in this week’s Scientific Report by researchers at Michigan State University (MSU) and in China add more fuel to the already hot debate about whether electric vehicles are…
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Canadian Grocer to Sell “Ugly” Fruit
Posted: March 19, 2015If you have traveled to regions such as the Balkans, India or rural Latin America, the appearance of misshapen fruit and vegetables everywhere would have hardly surprised you; and of…
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A bright side to aging
Posted: March 19, 2015Hollywood has given moviegoers many classic portrayals of grumpy old men. But new research suggests that getting older doesn’t necessarily make people cynical and suspicious. Instead, trust tends to increase as people age,…
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Amazon forest trees dying younger, reducing carbon uptake
Posted: March 18, 2015From a peak of two billion tonnes of carbon dioxide each year in the 1990s, the net uptake by the forest has halved and is now for the first time…
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The importance of methane seeps in microbial biodiversity of sea floor
Posted: March 18, 2015A new study “provides evidence that methane seeps are island-like habitats that harbor distinct microbial communities unique from other seafloor ecosystems." These seeps play an important role in microbial biodiversity…
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New data show iron rain fell on early Earth
Posted: March 18, 2015Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories’ Z machine have helped untangle a long-standing mystery of astrophysics: why iron is found spattered throughout Earth’s mantle, the roughly 2,000-mile thick region between Earth’s…
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