Extending your own life expectancy is the most selfish motive imaginable for doing anything. Do it, by all means. http://tinyurl.com/2otx7y...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Apr 2, 2008 11:36 pm
Changes in climate may have first shrunk the woolly mammoth's habitat, but humans delivered the final blow to the species, a new study shows. ...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Apr 2, 2008 11:42 pm
The ejaculation-inducing cries of promiscuous female macaques during sex are found to arouse other local males as well as their current mate ...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Apr 2, 2008 11:49 pm
Recent research suggests that the experience of being duped can stir self-reflection in a way few other experiences can. ...
4402
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Apr 2, 2008 11:51 pm
A South American river dolphin uses branches, weeds and lumps of clay to woo the opposite sex and frighten off rivals, scientists have discovered. ...
4403
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Apr 4, 2008 3:32 am
The menopause marked a "truce" in the age-old battle between wives and their mothers-in-law, says a new theory. http://tinyurl.com/yqgjan...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Apr 4, 2008 3:47 am
As Olympic officials prepare a bigger dope testing programme than at any previous Games, researchers say a common genetic variation may be helping some...
4405
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Apr 4, 2008 3:59 am
Ancient faeces are the earliest traces yet found of humans in North America – DNA analysis suggests that the settlers crossed from Asia ...
4406
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Apr 4, 2008 6:43 pm
Some Asian Families in US Using Sex-Selection to Produce Sons, Analysis Shows http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=4561037...
4407
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Apr 4, 2008 9:20 pm
DNA gathered surreptitiously helps get guilty verdicts, but critics say the practice violates privacy rights. ...
4408
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Apr 5, 2008 2:21 am
A peculiar band of chimpanzees hunts with weapons http://tinyurl.com/3l6sw6...
4409
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Apr 5, 2008 2:47 am
Between 700 BCE to about 70 CE, Jerusalem was home to various Judean cults and at times a center for religious fanaticism. The Assyrians understood that they...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Apr 5, 2008 3:00 am
Many adults may have a deep set fear of mathematics but it turns out that babies are natural born statisticians, say scientists. http://tinyurl.com/26yh5w...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Apr 6, 2008 12:36 am
A new brain-scan study may help explain what's going on in the minds of financial titans when they take risky monetary gambles — sex. When young men were...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Apr 6, 2008 12:38 am
Dictatorial behaviour may be partly genetic, study suggests. http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080404/full/news.2008.738.html...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Apr 6, 2008 12:40 am
If obesity seems to be spreading like a virus, that could be because it is. And understanding the adenovirus responsible could help fight the flab ...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Apr 6, 2008 12:41 am
Tiny mites, huge wasps, and spiders are among the more than 300 amber-entombed organisms recently brought to light by a new x-ray technique. ...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Apr 6, 2008 12:43 am
Grappling With Bad News From Genetic Testing http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120735197158891321.html?mod=googlenews_wsj...
4416
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Apr 7, 2008 2:12 am
New research sheds light on why women survive for decades when females in many other species die after they lose the ability to reproduce. ...
4417
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Apr 7, 2008 2:13 am
The value of a coin or banknote depends on its familiarity http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10952783...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Apr 7, 2008 2:14 am
It's a sexual stereotype: boys tend to play with toy cars, while girls like dolls. But male rhesus monkeys seem to have the same preferences ...
4419
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Apr 7, 2008 2:18 am
With unprecedented insights on the molecular basis of disease and the rise of "personalized medicine," cell sorting heads into its golden age. ...
4420
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Apr 7, 2008 2:31 am
Salamanders have amazing abilities to renew and regenerate themselves. Research biologist David Gardiner talks to Andrea Seabrook about why salamanders can...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Apr 8, 2008 5:36 am
Chinese and English dyslexias stem from different brain abnormalities. http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080407/full/news.2008.739.html...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Apr 8, 2008 5:37 am
The Indonesian amphibian may have evolved to respire through its skin as an adaptation to its cold, fast-moving stream habitat, a new study says. ...
4423
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Apr 8, 2008 5:38 am
The genes controlling which phobias we develop get turned on at different stages of life, possibly because the risks we face change ...
4424
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Apr 8, 2008 5:40 am
Tools dating back at least 35,000 years have been unearthed in a rock shelter in Australia's remote northwest, making it one of the oldest archaeological finds...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Apr 8, 2008 5:41 am
People who have had depression may be more prone to Alzheimer's disease, two studies suggest. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7334298.stm...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Apr 9, 2008 2:56 am
Some patients with FTD develop artistic abilities when frontal brain areas decline and posterior regions take over. ...
4427
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Apr 9, 2008 2:56 am
Fear is partly down to your genes, but this process changes as you grow older. http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080408/full/news.2008.743.html...
