Children in California, Oregon and Washington are more likely to develop autism if they lived in counties with higher levels of annual rainfall when they were 3 or younger, suggesting that something about wet weather may trigger the disorder, according to a study released Monday.
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Jane Goodall’s research has changed the definition of what it means to be a human.
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By Reuters |
November 1, 2008
Otzi, Italy’s prehistoric “iceman,” probably does not have any modern-day descendants, according to a study published on Thursday.
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UC Davis scientists have confirmed what tennis great John McEnroe so colorfully alleged on the court: Wimbledon referees make bad calls when judging balls hit close to the line.
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The death watch is on for
NASA’s Phoenix lander, the first spacecraft to sample water on another planet.
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It was a good news, bad news day for
NASA on Thursday as space agency managers announced that they had successfully restarted the broken Hubble Space Telescope, but acknowledged that they won’t be ready to send a repair team to the 18-year-old instrument until May at the earliest.
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Researchers have found a clue in the mysterious die-off of bats that has struck the northeastern United States – a new fungus that so far seems to be present only in afflicted bats and in caves where the die-off has occurred.
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One of the nation’s worst-hit cities for foreclosures in 2007 – Bakersfield – became an epicenter of West Nile virus that year largely because of mosquitoes breeding in abandoned swimming pools,
UC Davis and Kern County scientists reported Thursday.
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Turning your clock back one hour on Sunday for the end of daylight saving time could do your own ticker some good.
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NASA rolled out its next-generation space capsule here Wednesday, revealing a bulbous module that is scheduled to carry humans back to the moon in 2020 and eventually onward to Mars.
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