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Fungus Provides Clues To North American Extinctions()
November 20, 2009 One of the great mysteries about North America is what killed off woolly mammoths and other exotic animals that roamed the land after the last ice age. Ideas have ranged from a comet impact and climate change to human hunters. A study published Friday in Science Magazine provides new clues about this — cleverly deduced from samples of a fungus that grew on the animal's dung.
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Sounds During Sleep May Help You Remember()
November 19, 2009 Certain sounds played while people napped helped them remember information associated with those sounds once they woke up, say researchers at Northwestern University.
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Reef Conservation Strategy Backfires()
November 18, 2009 Conservationists worried about overfishing on the Pacific island of Kiribati persuaded fishermen to pick coconuts instead. The strategy backfired: Coconut oil production increased, but so did fishing. It turns out, fishermen who earned more money in coconut agriculture had more leisure time — which they spent fishing.
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Ancient Egyptians Suffered From Hardened Arteries()
November 17, 2009 X-ray scans of the arteries of Egyptian mummies show that hardening of the arteries wasn't uncommon among the upper classes in ancient times.
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The Dirt On Dust()
November 16, 2009 Where does all that dust under your couch come from? It turns out that most household dust comes from outside — and may contain some pretty harmful stuff. How the toxins in dust get into your body depends on the size of the dust particle.
Study Raises New Questions About Cholesterol Drug()
November 15, 2009 A new study raises fresh concerns about Zetia and its cousin, Vytorin — drugs still taken by millions of Americans to lower cholesterol, despite questions raised last year about how well they work.
