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| New map pinpoints Lyme disease risk areas
(AP)
-- Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:22:46 GMT |
AP - Researchers who spent three years dragging sheets of fabric through the woods to snag ticks have created a detailed map they claim could improve prevention, diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease.
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| NASA says Russian space woes no worry
(AP)
-- Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:36:29 GMT |
| AP - NASA says it still has confidence in the quality of Russia's manned rockets, despite an embarrassing series of glitches and failures in the Russian space program. |
| Where's the snow? Not in Lower 48, but elsewhere
(AP)
-- Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:19:47 GMT |
AP - Snow has been missing in action for much of the U.S. the last couple months. But it's not just snow. It's practically the season that's gone AWOL.
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| The low-level nuclear threat -- 2012-02-01 |
| Europe is making a good start on learning about the health risks of low-dose radiation with a programme to share cold-war data and set research priorities. But the effort needs to be global.
The low-level nuclear threat
Nature 482, 7383 (2012). doi:10.1038/482005a
Europe is making a good start on learning about the health risks of low-dose radiation with a programme to share cold-war data and set research priorities. But the effort needs to be global.
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| Poles apart -- 2012-02-01 |
| Protecting the Arctic from pollution requires a binding agreement like the Antarctic Treaty.
Poles apart
Nature 482, 7383 (2012). doi:10.1038/482005b
Protecting the Arctic from pollution requires a binding agreement like the Antarctic Treaty.
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| Damage limitation -- 2012-02-01 |
| Spider webs are designed to cope with stress and disruption, favouring repair over rebuilding.
Damage limitation
Nature 482, 7383 (2012). doi:10.1038/482006a
Spider webs are designed to cope with stress and disruption, favouring repair over rebuilding.
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