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- Heal the Bay's longtime chief going to UCLA
Category: Science
Publish Date: 01-11-2012 12:00 AM -0800
Long the public face of Heal the Bay, Mark Gold will become associate director of the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability.The long-time public face of Heal the Bay, one of...[more]
- Statins raise risk of Type 2 diabetes in older women, study finds
Category: Science
Publish Date: 01-10-2012 06:22 PM -0800
Post-menopausal women who take statins to ward off heart attacks are more likely to develop Type 2 diabetes than those who do not, research indicates.Older women who take statin medications to ward...[more]
- Doomsday Clock a minute closer to midnight
Category: Science
Publish Date: 01-10-2012 04:36 PM -0800
(Reuters) - The symbolic Doomsday Clock calculated by a group of scientists was moved a minute closer to midnight on Tuesday, with the group citing inadequate progress on nuclear weapons reduction...[more]
- Life Tech steers ahead of rivals in race for faster DNA device
Category: Science
Publish Date: 01-10-2012 09:20 AM -0800
(Reuters) - Life Technologies said it started taking orders for its "$1000 genome" device, placing the maker of life sciences tools in pole position in an industry-wide race to build the cheapest...[more]
- Blood-thinning drug linked to heart attack risk
Category: Science
Publish Date: 01-10-2012 12:00 AM -0800
Taking the recently approved medicine dabigatran could mean a slightly higher risk compared with the drug warfarin, a study suggests.People who take the recently approved blood-thinning medication...[more]
- A fresh heir in Muir country
Category: Science
Publish Date: 01-10-2012 12:00 AM -0800
Robert Hanna rarely mentioned that Sierra Club founder John Muir was his great-great-grandfather. When he was laid off from his corporate job, he took stock of his life, started an outdoors apparel...[more]
- Nicotine patches, gum don't prevent relapse, study finds
Category: Science
Publish Date: 01-09-2012 10:59 PM -0800
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- Gulf currents aided breakdown of oil after BP spill, study says
Category: Science
Publish Date: 01-09-2012 10:22 PM -0800
Rather than moving steadily away from the wellhead, oil-laced water often circled back, returning hydrocarbon-consuming bacteria to the plume repeatedly, authors say.The geography and water...[more]
- Next ice age not likely before 1,500 years: study
Category: Science
Publish Date: 01-09-2012 07:22 AM -0800
LONDON (Reuters) - High levels of carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere mean the next ice age is unlikely to begin for at least 1,500 years, an article in the journal Nature Geoscience said on...[more]
- Renewable energy projects in California go unused
Category: Science
Publish Date: 01-09-2012 12:00 AM -0800
Millions of dollars in projects intended to provide power to facilities in the state's national parks and forests are sitting idle because of a years-long squabble with Southern California...[more]
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