Cornell Researchers Precisely Date Wood From Ancient Tomb In Turkey
...much as a century. This age has long captured the popular imagination, Newton said, because it encompassed such cultures as the Minoans, Mycenaeans, Egyptians and Assyrians -- sophisticated civilizations that have been depicted in countless works of classical literature and film. The new chronology also ha...Bee Sting Treatment Should Emphasize Speed, Not Method Of Removal
...do.The method ofremoval is irrelevant, contrary to popular belief. The best advice for thosestung by a bee is to simply remove the sting immediately." For those who have dangerous allergic reactions to bee stings, removingthe sting rapidly could be particularly important, Visscher said. Systemicallergic re...Bottom-up Ecological Processes Better For Clear Waters, Study Finds
...nal Science . The analysis also casts doubt on a popular model of how energy moves throughfood webs in gene...man also casts doubt uponthe universal nature of a popular model developed by Lauri Oksanen, a theoreticalecologist at the University of Umeå in northern...Overweight Cats Risk Disease And Premature Death, Cornell Study Finds
...ondition, Scarlett commented, and some of the more popular purebred cats, such as Siamese and Burmese, are thin animals to begin with. Cats eating some prescription diets for conditions other than weight are more likely to be overweight. That is because many prescription diets contain more calories in the...Supelco Licenses ORNL Solid Sorbent Air Sampling Material
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...le of a potentially deadly drug duo was Seldane, a popular antihistamine, and erithromycin, a common antibiotic, which when taken together could produce sometimes fatal heart problems. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recommended that Seldane be withdrawn from the market. Prevention of drug i...Early Menarche Puts Young Girls In Peril
...facturers of skin, hair and diet products -- while popular culture and peer groups pilot contemporary teenage life. "At the same time, traditional social supports for young women have disappeared, putting girls today in crisis and at much higher risk than boys for eating disorders, substance abuse, droppin...Popular 'Cure-All' Tea Can Cause Toxic Reactions
Kombucha tea, a popular alternative health beverage that has been toutedas a cure for everything from wrinkles to cancer, has landed at least fourpeople in the hospital with dangerous side effects. Radhika Srinivasan, MD, of Texas Tech Health Sciences Center and her...UF Researchers Investigate Phenomenon Of Seizure-Alert Dogs
... medical help. "A number of reports in the popular press, electronic media and dog-related publications assert that some dogs have this ability," said Roger Reep, associate professor of physiological sciences at UF's College of Veterinary Medicine. "If these phenomena are real and occur reliably, th...New Research Suggests REM Is About Eyes Not Dreams
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...B strain, developed at TheJackson Laboratory, is a popular model for the study of lupus-like autoimmunediseases and such conditions in mice as neocortical ectopias similar to thosefound in the brains of human dyslexics. The embryos were divided into three groups for the experiment. TheNon-Transfer gr......phenolphthalein, a cathartic recently removed from popular nonprescriptionlaxatives following NIEHS studies; tetrafluoroethylene, used in the productionof Teflon, and trichloroethylene, a solvent. NTP said that the NTP Board subcommittee's re-review of dioxin need notdelay its listing in the ninth R...Fortified Drink Improves Third World Nutrition
...ctive in improving nutritional status and was very popular with the children," said Latham , a physician who was director of Cornell's Program in International Nutrition for 25 years. The study was assisted by Cornell statistician Edward Frongillo, and several Tanzanian scientists, including Godwin Ndossi, ...Biggest Acoustics Meeting Ever
....Investigating the noise from another increasingly popular mode of transportation--motorcyclescooters--Cho H. Lu of the Industrial Technology Research Institute in Hsinchu, Taiwan( 830562@mirl.itri.org.tw ) will show how padding the exhaust pipe and separating the power transmissionbox from the rest of the s...USGS Scientists Find New Invasive Fish Species In Florida
...e climates in Eastern Asia. In Asia, the eel is a popular food fish....NASA Funds New Origin Of Life Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
...e, research at the new center will explore the two popular butdiffering hypotheses concerning the origin of organic compounds that formed thebuilding blocks of life. One hypothesis proposes that organic compounds weredelivered to Earth after having been formed in interstellar clouds and modifiedin the nebula...Allergy And Asthma-Exaceberating Mites, Molds And Pollens On The Rise Due To El Niño . . . La Niña
...fic trees such as olive, walnut or ash. Contraryto popular belief, flower pollens are very rarely problematic to allergysufferers. The real culprits are the pollens of fruit trees, weeds and grasses. Once the specific allergies have been identified, many treatment options areavailable: antihistamines, cortis...Dismantling Dangerous Genetic Codes With A Faster, More Flexible RNA Mimic
... them in a biologicalsystem. It's becoming a very popular assay." Bashkin says the antisense community is large and growing, and his concepts canbe incorporated into any of the antisense approaches. "Most (antisense) efforts are directed toward things like getting good RNAtarget sequences and developing goo......azing Does Not Impact Species Variety Contrary to popular wisdom, grazing does not increase plant species diversityfor either native or invasive exotic species, according to a recent study. Thestudy was conducted on randomly selected sample sites on and adjacent to grazedareas in Colorado, Wyoming, Montana...