Science justifies California water limits

2010-03-19T16:15:13Z

<div><p>LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Federal limits on water that can be pumped out of a major river delta for California farmers are scientifically justified, a much-anticipated report said on Friday, a finding hailed by environmentalists in the state's epic water wars.</p><p>But the Charles Trick of the University of Western Ontario in

"Love" hormone may help autism symptoms: study

2010-02-22T09:23:57Z

<div><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A hormone thought to encourage bonding between mothers and their babies may foster social behavior in some adults with autism, French researchers said on Monday.</p><p>They found patients who inhaled the hormone oxytocin paid more attention to expressions when looking at pictures of faces and were more likely to understand social cues in a game ...

Study links hormone to addiction, risk-taking

2010-02-22T12:55:05Z

<div><p>LONDON (Reuters) - People with high levels of the hormone dopamine in the brain, and low sensitivity to it, tend to be greater risk takers and may be more prone to addictive behavior, drug abuse and gambling, a study has found.</p><p>Scientists from Denmark and Japan said they had ...

Cheap drug prevents kidney damage from injury

2010-02-22T12:55:07Z

<div><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The common painkiller acetaminophen can protect the kidneys from damage caused by crushing wounds such as those seen in earthquake victims or after car accidents, researchers reported on Monday.</p><p>The findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Aca...

Nitty-Gritty of Psychic Practices

2010-02-23T17:12:50Z

Who is a psychic? Well, he is person who has the extraordinary ability to sense information that is latent to normal senses. Such powers enable one everything from making presentiment about a person?s future to speaking to the dead. They can also have the ability of the mind to influence the world physically. They make interesting characters in works of fiction like The Dead Zone by Stephen King. It is a big industry which draws a good d...

Penn St. prof. welcomes climate change scrutiny

2010-02-23T21:12:40Z

<div id="subtitle">Penn St. professor 1 of central figures in climate change debate welcomes e-mail scrutiny</div><div><p>A Penn State professor and climate researcher said he welcomes scrutiny into leaked e-mails at the center of an international controversy over what's causing global warming after the university said it would look into the issue.&...

Erectile tissue restored in rabbits, gives hope to men

2010-02-24T07:10:42Z

<div><p>Erectile tissue grown in the laboratory has successfully restored sexual function in rabbits, bringing hope to men sexually impaired by accident or disease, US researchers said Tuesday in a published study.</p><p>In the most complete replacement of functional penile erectile tissue to date, researchers from North Carolin...

Stems cells repair brain function in irradiated rats

2010-02-24T07:27:50Z

<div><p>Human embryonic stem cells may one day be used to help people recover abilities to learn and remember that are lost after radiation treatment for brain tumors, experiments on rats suggest.</p><p>In a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers found that transplanted stem cells in rats restored learn...

Study: Man-eating lions consumed 35 people in 1898

2010-02-24T10:59:06Z

<div id="subtitle">Scientists finally able to estimate how many people eaten in 1898 lion rampage</div><div><p>The nightly attacks by two man-eating lions terrified railway workers and brought construction to a halt in one of east Africa's most notorious onslaughts more than a hundred years ago. But the death toll, scientists now say, wasn't as high as previously thought.</p><...

Amputees defy anatomy, learn to move phantom limbs

2010-02-24T14:13:41Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Amputees can "learn" to move their missing arm in an anatomically impossible way, in some cases making normal movement of that "phantom limb" more difficult, new research shows.</p><p>The findings show that the brain can alter how we perceive our bodies all by itself, without input from our senses, the researchers say, and raise the possibi...

One pair of dirty hands equals many infections

2010-02-24T16:47:51Z

<div><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A single doctor, nurse or technician with dirty hands can undo all the good work of an entire hospital staff trained to carefully wash their hands to prevent the spread of infection, French researchers reported on Monday.</p><p>This may be especially likely to happen just at the worst time -- when a hospital is overwhelmed with a disaster or a p...

Study shows champagne bubbles fizz with flavor

2010-02-25T01:31:45Z

<div><p>LONDON (Reuters Life!) - The luxurious bubbles that pop up and tickle the nose of a champagne drinker release explosions of flavor and not just fizz, scientists said on Monday.</p><p>French and German researchers analyzed the bubbles in a glass of champagne and discovered that chemical eruptions in them release flavor from tiny aerosols packed with aromatic molecules ...

Showerheads may harbor bacteria dangerous to some

2010-02-25T07:37:43Z

<div id="subtitle">Shower danger? People with weak immune systems may be vulnerable to bacteria from showerheads</div><div><p>In what may be the scariest shower news since Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho," a study says showerheads can harbor tiny bacteria that come spraying into your face when you wash. People with normal immune systems have little to fear, but these microbes could ...

Older Americans Poverty

2009-09-04T00:17:36Z

Simon Norwood, a construction worker who hasn't found work in months, poses in a garage apartment belonging to a friend in Little Rock, Ark., Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009. The official poverty rate for Americans 65 years and older has stood for years at 10 percent, the lowest rate among age groups. But the true rate could be nearly twice that high, according to a revised formula created by ...

New clue found to disappearing honey bees

2010-02-25T16:26:26Z

<div id="subtitle">Bee disappearances may be linked to damaged ribosomes, which make vital proteins</div><div><p>Researchers have a new clue to the collapse of honey bee colonies across the country — damage to the bees' internal "factories" that produce proteins. Theories about the cause of bee colony collapse have included viruses, mites, pesticides and fungi.</p><p>The new study of sick bees disclosed fragments...

Albert Einstein sculpture feature

2009-08-14T07:02:30Z

A young boy walks on a bronze sculpture of Albert Einstein, outside the National Academy of Sciences building in Washington, DC, USA on 12 August 2009....

Japanese researchers 'grow' teeth in mice

2010-02-26T00:58:13Z

<div><p>Japanese researchers have successfully implanted bioengineered seed-like tissue into the jaws of mice, growing new teeth for the rodents, according to a study published Monday.</p><p>The study, presented in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences demonstrates a technique that could be used to replace other organs.</p>&am...

Experts grow new teeth in adult mice

2010-02-26T01:02:53Z

<div><p>HONG KONG (Reuters) - Scientists in Japan have managed to grow fully functional teeth in adult mice using cells from an embryo, and they hope the same technology can be used to grow human organs in the future.</p><p>"This therapy has the potential to restore the partial loss of organ function," they wrote in their paper publis...

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