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Environment5 Feb 2014

Forest emissions, wildfires explain why ancient Earth was so hot

PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 5-Feb-2014 [ | E-mail ] var addthis_pub="eurekalert"; var addthis_options = "favorites, delicious, digg, facebook, twitter, google, newsvine, reddit, slashdot, stumbleupon, buzz, more" Share Contact: Kevin Dennehy kevin.dennehy@yale.edu 203-436-4842 Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Forest emissions, wildfires explain why ancient Earth was so hot The release of volatile organic compounds from forests and smoke from wildfires 3 million years ago had a far greater impact on global warming than ancient atmospheric levels ...

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Medicine5 Feb 2014

Electronically controlled drugs could minimize side effects

Potential side effects of many of today's therapeutic drugs can be downright frightening — just listen carefully to a drug commercial on TV. These effects often occur when a drug is active throughout ...

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Energy5 Feb 2014

Approach helps identify new biofuel sources that don't require farmland

While the debate over using crops for fuel continues, scientists are now reporting a new, fast approach to develop biofuel in a way that doesn't require removing valuable farmland from ...

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Social Science5 Feb 2014

Mounting evidence links lead's toxic effects to criminal behavior

When crime rates drop, politicians like to give themselves pats on the back for being "tough on crime." But a new theory explaining why violence has declined across the country since the 1990s ...

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Science5 Feb 2014

How to tell when bubbly goes bad before popping the cork

In the rare case that New Year's revelers have a bottle of leftover bubbly, they have no way to tell if it'll stay good until they pop the cork and taste it at the next celebration. But now scientists ...

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Science5 Feb 2014

Longevity mutation found in flies far and wide

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — For years, researchers have been investigating how mutations of a gene called Indy (for "I'm Not Dead Yet") affect metabolism, life span, and reproductive fitness in both mammals ...

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Medicine5 Feb 2014

Rural primary care physicians offer insight into rural women's health care

Women living in rural communities are less likely than urban-dwelling women to receive sufficient mental health care, in large part due to limited access to services and societal stigma, according to medicine ...

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Science5 Feb 2014

Decriminalizing pot may land more kids in the ER

WASHINGTON — States that decriminalized marijuana saw dramatic increases in children requiring medical intervention, although the overall number of unintentional marijuana exposures among children remained ...

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Medicine5 Feb 2014

Is the male or female brain more vulnerable to triggers of violent behavior?

New Rochelle, NY, February 5, 2014–Human behaviors such as violence depend on interactions in the brain between genetic and environmental factors. An individual ...

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Science5 Feb 2014

ASGE issues guidelines for safety in the gastrointestinal endoscopy unit

DOWNERS GROVE, Ill. – February 5, 2014 – The American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) has issued "Guidelines for safety in the gastrointestinal endoscopy ...

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Space5 Feb 2014

Tropical Cyclone Edilson birth caught by NASA's Aqua satellite

The thirteenth tropical cyclone of the Southern Pacific Ocean season formed into a tropical storm named Edilson on February 5 shortly before NASA's Aqua satellite passed overhead. Edilson is threatening ...

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Space5 Feb 2014

One NASA image, 2 Australian tropical lows: Fletcher and 95S

NASA's Aqua satellite captured two low pressure areas from different ocean basins in one infrared image. Aqua saw System 94P or Fletcher in the Gulf of Carpentaria and western Queensland and low pressure ...

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Science5 Feb 2014

Mechanism discovered for how amyotrophic lateral sclerosis mutations damage nerve function

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Medicine5 Feb 2014

Pinpointing the brain's arbitrator

We tend to be creatures of habit. In fact, the human brain has a learning system that is devoted to guiding us through routine, or habitual, ...

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Science5 Feb 2014

Study untangles divergent US job-tenure patterns

WASHINGTON, DC, February 5, 2014 — Have American jobs become less stable? Do workers change ...

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Medicine5 Feb 2014

Predicting cardiovascular events in sleep apnea

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) generally is associated with increased risk for cardiovascular (CV) disease. OSA is usually measured using the apnea-hypopnea index (AHI), the number of times that breathing pauses or severely slows per hour of sleep. ...

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Medicine5 Feb 2014

Educational toolkit did not improve quality of care or outcomes for patients with diabetes

An educational toolkit designed to improve care of patients with diabetes was not effective, Baiju R Shah and colleagues (University of Toronto) found in a cluster randomized trial conducted in 2009-2011. ...

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Medicine5 Feb 2014

Pattern of higher blood pressure in early adulthood helps predict risk of heart disease

In an analysis of blood pressure patterns over a 25-year span from young adulthood to middle age, individuals who exhibited elevated and increasing blood pressure levels ...

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Medicine5 Feb 2014

Study shows potential usefulness of non-invasive measure of heart tissue scarring

Scarring of tissue in the upper chamber of the heart (atrium) was associated with recurrent rhythm disorder after treatment, according to a study in the February 5 issue of JAMA. ...

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Science5 Feb 2014

Pre-term infants with severe retinopathy more likely to have non-visual disabilities

In a group of very low-birth-weight infants, severe retinopathy of prematurity was associated with nonvisual disabilities at age 5 years, according to a study in the February ...

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Science5 Feb 2014

Do you have a sweet tooth? Honeybees have a sweet claw

New research on the ability of honeybees to taste with claws on their forelegs reveals details on how this information is processed, according to a study published in the open-access journal, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. Insects ...

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Medicine5 Feb 2014

Clearer labels needed on drugs containing animal products

Dr Kinesh Patel and Dr Kate Tatham say most medications prescribed in primary care contain animal derived products and it ...

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Medicine5 Feb 2014

Is institutional racism happening in our hospitals?

Dr Nadeem Moghal, from George Eliot Hospital in Warwickshire, draws on the Macpherson report (the police ...

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Science5 Feb 2014

Time to act on mobile phone use while driving, say experts

Charles and Barry Pless argue that, with a quarter of crashes in the United States now attributed to mobile phone use, "we can't wait for perfect evidence before ...

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Science5 Feb 2014

Largest evolutionary study of sponges sheds new light on animal evolution

Sponges are an important animal for marine and freshwater ecology and represent a rich animal diversity ...

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