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		<title>Pepper pill gets to root of deer problem</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:32:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patty Mattern-Minnesota</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[chemistry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[horticulture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[plant genetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom Levar]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[U. MINNESOTA (US)—Delivering hot pepper concentrate right to the roots keeps pesky deer and mice from devouring plants before they make it to the dinner table. And unlike spray deterrents, it can&#8217;t wash off.
Tom Levar, a forestry and horticulture specialist at the University of Minnesota, adapted a plant formulation of Dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) to move [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ancient beer brewed to include antibiotic</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:58:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carol Clark-Emory</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Emory University]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Armelagos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medical anthropology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nubia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[EMORY (US)—A chemical analysis of the bones of ancient Nubians shows that they were regularly consuming tetracycline, most likely in their beer.
The finding is the strongest evidence yet that the art of making antibiotics, which officially dates to the discovery of penicillin in 1928, was common practice nearly 2,000 years ago.
The research, led by Emory [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gay parents don&#8217;t mar school success</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Gorlick-Stanford</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[family interaction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Rosenfeld]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Proposition 8]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[same-sex couples]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sociology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[STANFORD (US)—Children being raised by same-sex couples have nearly the same educational achievement as children raised by married heterosexual couples, according to a new study that used data from the 2000 U.S. Census.
&#8220;The census data show that having parents who are the same gender is not in itself any disadvantage to children,&#8221; says Michael Rosenfeld, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s rocket science: Wastewater treatment</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Shwartz-Stanford</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[aeronautics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environmental engineering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[greenhouse gas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stanford University]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wastewater treatment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[STANFORD (US)—Engineers are developing a new sewage treatment process that would actually increase the production of two greenhouse gases—nitrous oxide (aka laughing gas) and methane—to be used to power the treatment plant.
&#8220;Normally, we want to discourage these gases from forming,&#8221; says Craig Criddle, professor of civil and environmental engineering and senior fellow at Stanford University.
&#8220;But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Front row seat to ultrafast chemical reaction</title>
		<link>http://www.futurity.org/science-technology/front-row-seat-to-ultrafast-chemical-reaction/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futurity.org/science-technology/front-row-seat-to-ultrafast-chemical-reaction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:59:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Ross-Flanigan-Michigan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cellular respiration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chemical reaction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chemistry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Kubarych]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[molecules]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spectroscopic imaging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[University of Michigan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[U. MICHIGAN (US)—To best observe chemical transformations in solution, molecular spectators have to be close to the action.
Scientists have known for decades that molecules that comprise the &#8220;first solvation shell&#8221; sense and dictate the fate of nearly every chemical reaction, but it has been virtually impossible to watch them respond for several reasons.
First, fundamental steps [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mosquitoes sniff out prey with multi-sensors</title>
		<link>http://www.futurity.org/health-medicine/mosquitoes-sniff-out-prey-with-multi-sensors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Salisbury-VU</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health & Medicine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biological sciences]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Laurence Zwiebel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[malaria]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[pharmacology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vanderbilt University]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yale University]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[VANDERBILT (US)—To track human prey, malaria mosquitoes use several different kinds of odor sensors, according to a new study.
The discovery may help in the development of new and more effective forms of mosquito lures and repellents.
The findings provide striking new evidence that Anopheles gambiae—the species of mosquito that spreads malaria that infects some 250 million [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cigarette smoking: Unsafe at any level</title>
		<link>http://www.futurity.org/health-medicine/cigarette-smoking-unsafe-at-any-level/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futurity.org/health-medicine/cigarette-smoking-unsafe-at-any-level/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:09:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Krishna Ramanujan-Cornell</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cornell University]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lung cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lung disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nicotine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[passive smoking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[smoking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[CORNELL (US)—Exposure to even low-levels of cigarette smoke may put people at risk for future lung disease, including lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, according to a new study.
The findings further support public smoking bans, researchers say.
Details of the study, which is the first to show that even minimal exposure to tobacco smoke triggers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Silicon chips could push limits of small</title>
		<link>http://www.futurity.org/science-technology/silicon-chips-could-push-limits-of-small/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:08:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Ruth-Rice</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science & Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[circuits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[computer science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Tour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nanotechnology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rice University]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[silicon]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RICE (US)—Scientists have created the first two-terminal memory chips that use only silicon, one of the most common substances on the planet, in a way that should be easily adaptable to nanoelectronic manufacturing techniques.
The work promises to extend the limits of miniaturization subject to Moore&#8217;s Law, a prediction made by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Without glue, cells tend to go rogue</title>
		<link>http://www.futurity.org/health-medicine/without-glue-cells-tend-to-go-rogue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Foulsham-UC Santa Barbara</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cancer]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Joel Rothman]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[UC SANTA BARBARA (US)—A protein that helps make cells sticks together also keeps them from dividing excessively, a hallmark of cancer progression.
The findings were described in a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
&#8220;When we develop from an egg, cells divide many times, generating the vast number of cells present in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why traveling birds need army ants</title>
		<link>http://www.futurity.org/earth-environment/why-traveling-birds-need-army-ants/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Roseth-UW</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[birds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[entomology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sean O'Donnell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[University of Washington]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[U. WASHINGTON-SEATTLE (US)—The health of some migratory birds in the United States may depend in part on colonies of army ants that inhabit the foothills near Monteverde, Costa Rica.
This is one of the conclusions of a study recently published in the Wilson Journal of Ornithology.
Sean O&#8217;Donnell, professor of psychology at the University of Washington and [...]]]></description>
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