How to stick to good intentions "I'm going to do more sport in the new year." Hardly any resolution is made more frequently than this one after the calorie-filled Christmas holidays - and hardly one that is broken as frequently. A team ...
Tags: behaviour techniques, physical activity behaviour, diabetic patients
Scientists have discovered how plants use steroid hormones to choose growth over defence when their survival depends on it. The findings published in the open-access scientific journal eLife could be used to engineer crops that combine ...
A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute in Germany has found that a species of hornworm uses nicotine it gets from eating tobacco plants, as a means of defense. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of ...
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As of December 31, inventory of iron ore at 25 major Chinese ports amounted to 84.197 million mt, indicating a decrease of 1.206 million mt or 1.41 percent week on week, as announced by China's Xinhua News Agency. As of the same date, the ...
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A new Duke University-led study has documented dramatic, natural short-term increases in acidity in a North Carolina estuary. "The natural short-term variability in acidity we observed over the course of one year exceeds 100-year global ...
For the male canary, the ability to sing a pitch-perfect song is critical to wooing female canaries. As the seasons change, so does song quality and frequency. The hormone testosterone plays a role in this changing song behavior. ...
Tags: male canary, birdsong, hormone testosterone, changing song behavior
By the time they're two, most children have had respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and suffered symptoms no worse than a bad cold. But for some children, especially premature babies and those with underlying health conditions, RSV can lead ...
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Tablet supplier Arcos will go to International CES with its first tablet- and smartphone-controlled home-automation system, its first smart watches, first fitness band and a host of connected fitness-related devices. Pricing and ship ...
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Chinese manufacturing activity declined in December, adding to pressure on communist leaders who have promised sweeping reforms to revive the slowing economy. An industry group, the China Federation of Logistics & Purchasing, said ...
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With 2013 in the books and a whole new year of horse health news and articles ahead, the staff at TheHorse.com took a few moments to tally our top 10 most popular articles of the past year. Covering a variety of topics related to horse ...
Tags: Horse Health, Agriculture
The famous Washington, D.C., think tank Brookings recently put out a report noting that Taiwan's economy has shifted to a virtual dependency on IT supply chain businesses. The briefing paper, which can be found here, has some pretty serious ...
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A U.S. expert offers six simple tips for mental well-being that will not only help relieve stress, but also favorably impact New Year's resolutions. Dr. William Manard, assistant professor in the department of family and community ...
Hankook Tire America Corp. has released its 2013 Winter Gauge Index that reveals 41% of all Americans polled and more than half of Northeasterners and Midwesterners expect more snow this winter, as compared to last year. However, while ...
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Less than 1-in-10 adult Canadians is in ideal cardiovascular health, Toronto researchers say. "A large proportion of Canadians are in poor cardiovascular health, and the overall trend has not changed in the past decade," senior author Dr. ...
The mechanism by which some bacteria are able to survive antibacterial treatment has been revealed for the first time by Hebrew University of Jerusalem researchers. Their work could pave the way for new ways to control such bacteria. In ...
Tags: bacteria, antibacterial treatment, control persistent bacteria