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Evolutionary forces explain why women live longer than men

University of Michigan, 4 years, 4 months, 2 days, 18 hours, 46 minutes ago
Ann Arbor, Michigan - Despite research efforts to find modern factors that would explain the different life expectancies of men and women, the gap is actually ancient and universal, according to University of Michigan researchers.


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Caribbean Leatherback Sea Turtles Stage Comeback

Earthwatch Institute, 4 years, 4 months, 3 days, 9 hours, 10 minutes ago
St. Croix, US Virgin Islands - The first week in May marked the emergence of the first hatchlings from leatherback turtles nesting on Sandy Point, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands.


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Online calculator and chemotherapy order systems reduce medication errors in children

Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, 4 years, 4 months, 3 days, 12 hours, 27 minutes ago
Baltimore, MD - Two new studies from the Johns Hopkins Children's Center show that computerizing ordering of chemotherapy and other types of intravenous drug infusions for children greatly reduces the risk of potentially dangerous medical errors.


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deCODE Discovers Major Genetic Risk Factor for Prostate Cancer

deCode Genetics, 4 years, 4 months, 3 days, 20 hours, 14 minutes ago
Reykjavik, Iceland - Scientists at deCODE genetics (Nasdaq:DCGN) along with academic colleagues in Iceland, the US and Sweden today report the discovery of a common genetic variant that predisposes to prostate cancer.


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New marine protected areas for Australia

World Wildlife Fund, 4 years, 4 months, 6 days, 20 hours, 40 minutes ago
Melbourne, Australia - Australia has committed to creating 13 new Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), totalling 226,000km2 in Australia's south-eastern waters. The area covers waters off the Australian states of Victoria, Tasmania, southern New South Wales and eastern South Australia, paving the way for the creation of a national network of MPAs throughout Australia's vast ocean territory.


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WWF and tourist operator sign agreement to protect the Arctic

World Wildlife Fund, 4 years, 4 months, 1 week, 18 hours, 7 minutes ago
Olso, Norway - WWF and Arctic tour operator Spitsbergen Travel have signed an agreement that will increase awareness about the Arctic environment among tourists, company employees and business partners.


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Computer Grid Helps Fight Avian Flu

Particle Physics & Astronomy Research Council, 4 years, 4 months, 1 week, 20 hours, 41 minutes ago
London - During April, computers in the UK have been working overtime in the fight against avian flu. As part of an international collaboration, computers at eleven UK universities and research labs have put in one hundred thousand hours of time searching for possible drug components against the avian flu virus H5N1. The analysis used a computing Grid, a new network that brings together worldwide computer resources to solve scientific problems.


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New ILO Report Shows Marked Decline in Child Labor Worldwide

International Labor Organization, 4 years, 4 months, 1 week, 21 hours, 6 minutes ago
Geneva, Switzerland - Child labor, especially in its worst forms, is in decline for the first time across the globe, the International Labor Organization (ILO) said today, in a new, cautiously optimistic report entitled "The end of child labor: Within reach".


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Greenpeace celebrates victory as Spain s oldest nuclear power plant is shut down

Greenpeace, 4 years, 4 months, 1 week, 1 day, 21 hours, 33 minutes ago
Madrid, Spain - Greenpeace is celebrating the permanent shutdown of Spain's oldest nuclear power station, which was finally closed yesterday following years of intense campaigning by environmental and social groups highlighting serious safety concerns at the plant.


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New engineering center to transform sensor technology

Princeton University, 4 years, 4 months, 1 week, 2 days, 19 hours, 2 minutes ago
Princeton, NJ - The National Science Foundation has funded a multimillion-dollar Engineering Research Center based at Princeton University that is expected to revolutionize sensor technology, yielding devices that have a unique ability to detect minute amounts of chemicals found in the atmosphere, emitted from factories or exhaled in human breath.


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