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Cleaner,
Crazier Cars on Show in Tokyo
October 21, 2005
Cleaner, smarter automobiles are the theme
for the 2005 Tokyo Motor Show in Japan, although high performance and downright wacky concept vehicles have also been
revealed.
Source: NewScientist.com
'Freeze
Therapy' for Lung Cancers
October 22, 2005
Doctors are using a probe that freezes
tumors at temperatures of -190°C
to treat lung cancer in patients who otherwise could not have surgery. Normally
surgeons aim to cut out the cancer but this is not always possible, for example
if the patient is frail.
Source: BBC News
Your
Brain's Sex Can Make You Ill
October 23, 2005
Doctors
know that women are more likely than men to have depression, anxiety or an
eating disorder, while men are at higher risk of Parkinson's disease.
Post-mortem and brain imaging studies show that male and female brains are
physically different.
Source:
BBC News
Periods
Affect Women's Brains
October 24, 2005
Help
may soon be on its way for women who live with the pain of premenstrual
syndrome, and for those who live with them. Researchers have begun to
investigate what happens in the brain as a woman's hormones surge before her
period.
Source: Nature.com
Africa
Must Do More to Back HIV Vaccine Research
October 25, 2005
HIV vaccine researchers in
Africa
have urged the continent's policymakers to give their research greater
political and financial support.
Source: SciDev.net
Scientists
Draft Blueprint to Protect World Oceans
October 26, 2005
International scientists are mapping out a
plan for a network of marine parks to save the world's oceans from fish stock
depletion and growing pollution.
Source: Environmental News
Network
Kids
Need Exercise—Parents
October 26, 2005
Lack
of exercise is a main cause of childhood obesity, according to many of the 961
parents who took part in a poll. The poll found that inactivity was rated just
ahead of easy access to junk food as the main concern of 21 percent of the
parents who acknowledged that their children were overweight.
Source: News24.com
'Start
of Life' Gene Discovered
October 27, 2005
Scientists
have found the gene responsible for controlling a first key step in the creation
of new life. The HIRA gene is involved in the events necessary for the
fertilization that take place once a sperm enters an egg.
Source: BBC News
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