Urban lighting turns birds on Urban lighting can cause male birds to be ready to mate weeks ahead of the mating season, according to Science News magazine. But whether the birds started taking a lot of cold showers during this period is ...
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Women can create a time-lapse video of their pregnancy – and get health tips along the way – through a new, free, interactive iPhone app called CineMama available from the March of Dimes. Time-lapse pregnancy slideshows and ...
Biodistribution studies are critical in the investigation of novel pharmacological agents, yielding vital information about tissue distribution of drug formulations as well as to characterize non-pharmaceutical agents, particularly in an in ...
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Just in time for Valentine's Day comes this, ahem, uplifting tidbit from our director of health research, who stumbled upon it while looking into the erectile-dysfunction drug sildenafil (Viagra) for entirely work-related purposes. It seems ...
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It seems to be generally accepted by the medical profession that in the event of a heart attack, stroke or brain trauma it significantly improves the prognosis for the patient if the brain can be cooled at the earliest possible opportunity. ...
The night time twinkling of fireflies has inspired scientists to modify an LED light bulb so that it is more than one and a half times as efficient as the original. Researchers from Belgium, France and Canada carried out extensive ...
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The nighttime twinkling of fireflies has inspired scientists to modify a light-emitting diode (LED) so it is more than one and a half times as efficient as the original. Researchers from Belgium, France, and Canada studied the internal ...
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Exploration of the Chinese people on Chinese Herbal medicine has gone through thousands of years of history. According to legend, ShenNong tasted a hundred herbs, and first explained the Medicine, he was well known as “Emperor of the ...
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Pound for pound, spider silk is one of the strongest materials known: Research by MIT’s Markus Buehler has helped explain that this strength arises from silk’s unusual hierarchical arrangement of protein building blocks. Now ...
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One day, pharmaceutical companies might not have to test new drugs on animals or even humans. Instead, drugs could be tested with organ-on-a-chip technologies. These are not silicon chips that simulate organs or organisms, mind you; they ...
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1. How to get permanent residence permit? You should submit: (a) Valid passport or equivalent; (b) Health certi_ cate issued at state level; (c) Credentials proving no criminal record by China embassies or consulates; (d) Two passport ...
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1. What's "guanxi"? Guanxi is regarded as the central idea in Chinese society with long historical and cultural roots. It is understood and utilized by virtually every Chinese person in greater or lesser measure. Understanding how the ...
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Under the correct leadership of CPC Central Committee and State Council, in accordance with the scientific concept of development and building a harmonious socialist society, by further intensify the work of employment, as well as improving ...
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IDG News Service - The Supreme Court in the Philippines has temporarily restrained the government from enforcing a new controversial cyber law, in response to petitions from civil rights and journalists groups in the country. In a ...
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IDG News Service - The U.S.-based Electronic Frontier Foundation criticized new cybercrime legislation that went into effect Wednesday in the Philippines, which has sparked protests over its heavy-handed approach to speech on the internet. ...
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