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6,692 articles from FEBRUARY 2012
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THURSDAY 23. FEBRUARY, 2012
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A unique on-off switch for hormone production
Weizmann scientists have revealed a new kind of on-off switch in the brain for regulating the production of a main biochemical signal from the brain that stimulates cortisol release in the body. -
11:24Hits from The Beatles have finally joined the chorus of ringtones available for mobile phones.
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11:24(AP) -- With the month of March looming, tornado chasers are already watching the Southeast as a nasty storm brews with the potential to spin off a batch of tornadoes.
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11:24Attorneys general from across the United States urged Google on Wednesday to put the brakes on plans for a major change to its privacy policy.
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11:24The White House unveiled an online privacy proposal Thursday intended to allow Web users to easily opt out of being tracked on the Internet.
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11:00
Lent and the Science of Self-Denial
The hidden health benefits of religious rituals that require willpower
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Protection vital for Med wetlands
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Green Blog: Bill Gates Calls for More Accountability on Food Programs
The Microsoft founder, in a speech in Rome, calls for greater controls and benchmarks for world food programs while promising another $200 million in financing from his foundation.
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10:00
Wired for Culture by Mark Pagel – review
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09:12
Obama to address gas prices, pitch energy policy (AP)
AP - President Barack Obama is confronting Americans' anxiety over rising gasoline prices by drawing attention to his energy policies and taking credit for rising oil and gas production, a greater mix of energy sources and decreased consumption.
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09:11
Twitter head tells those who spend hours on site to stop
To those of you who tweet and follow others on Twitter all the livelong day, the co-founder of the immensely popular social networking site has a message for you.
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09:11AP - With the month of March looming, tornado chasers are already watching the Southeast as a nasty storm brews with the potential to spin off a batch of tornadoes.
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09:04AP - A former chief executive of construction giant KBR Inc. will learn his penalty for a federal bribery conviction related to the company's natural gas operations in Nigeria from 1995 to 2004.
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08:55The Ministry of Defence is to de-classify submarine data in order to help shed light on climate change in the Arctic.
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08:34Gamekeepers are warning capercaillie could be lost from Scotland for a second time, unless steps are taken to control pine marten numbers.
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08:30
Originally published in the Guardian on 23 February 1974
Incredulity reigned among British archaeologists yesterday after Senator Frank Moss, chairman of the US Senate Space Committee, told a gathering of American mapmakers that a speck on a photograph of Mount Ararat taken from 450 miles up by a satellite might be the remains of Noah's Ark. "If it's not the Loch Ness Monster, it's the Ark," said one expert, and a (non-archaeological) colleague asked: "Are there two sets of animal tracks leading from it?"
No one could answer that yesterday, because not even the US Embassy's space man had yet seen the photograph. Senator Moss seems to have based his speculation on a "confidential memorandum" from Dr John Montgomery, of Trinity Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, which will only sharpen the edge of the archaeologists' scepticism, because Christian fundamentalists have always been eager to discover the Ark.
A Frenchman, Fernand, claimed to have found the Ark in this area in 1955 and a stream of American-financed expeditions assaulted the 16,000ft mountain in an attempt to check on Genesis. But chunks of timber brought back from the site were later dated by radio-carbon techniques at about AD 560, several thousand years after Noah must have folded his umbrella and pulled up the gangplank.
What's more, if he ever did that, it was probably hundreds of miles to the south. "The possibility of finding Noah's Ark anywhere is very remote," said Professor Glyn Daniel yesterday. "And especially on Mount Ararat, because Noah operated in lower Mesopotamia... I should have to see the photograph before we start any more hares. Thank you so much for ringing."
And, anyway, that Bible story, said Professor Barrington Cunliffe of Oxford, is "not exactly fable, but it's not regarded as strict history. It reflects a memory of a flood or series of floods in Mesopotamia. But there's nothing to associate Ararat with the story."
Some authorities, in fact, point out that Mount Ararat wasn't given this name until the sixteenth century. "Every ancient people," said the British Museum's expert, "had a story about a flood. There is even one about a flood in Welsh, I believe." No one has yet spotted signs of an Ark on Snowdon, but Dr Montgomery is keen to get up another expedition to comb the slopes of Ararat again.
Whether the Turkish authorities allow him access is another matter, because they forbade the last American-sponsored expedition in 1970.
But in spite of their scepticism, archaeologists are prepared to reserve final judgment until the satellite picture can be examined in detail. And they do not doubt that Senator Moss's pronouncement will cheer some back-to-the-Bible Christians.
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06:23Computerized tomographic (CT) colonography (CTC), also known as virtual colonoscopy, is comparable to standard colonoscopy in its ability to accurately detect cancer and precancerous polyps in people ages 65 and older, according to a paper published online today in Radiology.
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06:23Computed tomography (CT) colonography can be used as a primary screening tool for colorectal cancer in adults over the age of 65, according to a new study published online in the journal Radiology.
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A unique on-off switch for hormone production
Weizmann scientists have revealed a new kind of on-off switch in the brain for regulating the production of a main biochemical signal from the brain that stimulates cortisol release in the body. -
06:00In response to a study published online Feb. 23 in Radiology which showed that virtual colonoscopies are comparably affective to standard colonoscopy at detecting colorectal cancer and precancerous polyps in adults ages 65 and older, the Colon Cancer Alliance and the American College of Radiology released a joint statement demanding Medicare cover seniors for screening virtual colonoscopies -- also known as CT colonography.
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06:00Virtual colonoscopy is comparable to standard colonoscopy at detecting colorectal cancer and precancerous polyps in people ages 65 and older, according to a paper published online Feb. 23 in Radiology. This and results of a 2008 trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine, confirm the virtual exam can serve as a primary screening option. Medicare has refused coverage for the exam citing lack of data in patients ages 65 and older.
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06:00Cells that repress their "bad time" pumps when a nutrient is abundant were much more efficient at preparing for starvation and at recovering afterward than the cells that had been genetically engineered to avoid this repression.
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06:00Computed tomography colonography can be used as a primary screening tool for colorectal cancer in adults over the age of 65, according to a new study.
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05:27A decision this week allowing towns to ban oil and gas drilling gives opponents of hydraulic fracturing a weapon against the process even if the state allows it.
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