Product labels make consumers aware when they are buying products of certain quality features that they would be unable to assess without additional information. This is also the intention of the quality label from the independent ...
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Volcanoes spewing Sun-reflecting particles into the atmosphere have partly offset the effects of Man's carbon emissions over a 15-year period that has become a global-warming battleground, researchers said Sunday. A so-called hiatus in ...
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An international team of researchers have discovered a 'microbial Pompeii' preserved on the teeth of skeletons around 1,000 years old. The key to the discovery is the dental calculus (plaque) which preserves bacteria and microscopic ...
A Dartmouth-University of Connecticut study of the northeast United States shows that methylmercury concentrations in estuary waters—not in sediment as commonly thought—are the best way to predict mercury contamination in the ...
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Robots are notoriously horrible at being generalists. The most efficient and effective robots have been purpose-built to do one specific task very, very well. This is why we have Roombas and not Rosies, and it's why robotic telemedicine ...
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Valproic acid is one of the most widely prescribed drugs for the treatment of epilepsy. It has also been shown to be effective for the treatment of mood disorders and migraine headaches. What prompted your research into valproic acid ...
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People can use the sense of smell to detect dietary fat in food, according to new findings from research centre on human senses the Monell Centre (Monell). Researchers said innovative methods using odour to make low-fat foods more ...
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The Asian citrus psyllid (ACP) can spread the lethal and incurable citrus disease known as huanglongbing (HLB) or citrus greening that threatens the multi-billion dollar global citrus industry. In Southern California, large and widespread ...
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If frigid weather is making you shiver, there's an upside -- it might also help you burn calories. Both moderate shivering and moderate exercise may convert bad white fat into healthier brown fat, a new study says. White fat stores ...
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Brass and bronze are two popular metals those are widely used in across the world in various ways. Basically bronze and brass are both copper alloys but they vary in their composition and thus in their qualities and applications. Brass is ...
From bacteria to plants to humans,all organisms have mechanisms that they use to repair DNA damaged by ultraviolet(UV)light.This fundamental maintenance function is critical to our health because damaged DNA can lead to diseases such as ...
(Phys.org)—A team of researchers in Canada has found a way around the problem of large nanostructures that are used to combat tumors,remaining in the body after they are no longer needed.In their paper published in the journal Nature ...
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The Annals of the American Thoracic Society has released a comprehensive supplement on the 56th annual Thomas L. Petty Aspen Lung Conference entitled "The Lung Microbiome: A New Frontier in Pulmonary Medicine." More than 170 ...
PMI Nutrition,LLC,of Arden Hills,MN,has initiated a voluntary recall of its 20-lb.bags of Red Flannel?Cat Formula cat food for possible Salmonella contamination,according to a U.S.Food and Drug Administration announcement issued ...
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Having grown into the world’s factory through an abundance of cheap labor, China is now rushing to introduce industrial robots in response to rising wages and a worker shortage created by its one-child policy. The casting industry ...