Child living with HIV maintains remission without drugs since 2008
Researchers have renewed hope to learn how to induce long-term HIV remission in infected babies.
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A nine-year-old South African child who...
Ancient whodunit may be solved: Methane-producing microbes did it!
An outburst of methane produced effects similar to those predicted by current models of global climate change: a sudden, extreme rise in temperatures, combined...
Giant mass extinction quicker than previously thought: End-Permian extinction happened in 60,000 years
Artist's rendering of the landscape during end-Permian extinction.
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The largest mass extinction in the history of animal life occurred some 252 million years...
Amphibians and dinosaurs were the new large predators after the mass extinction
This is the fossil of Saurichthys, a top predator among the Triassic fishes.
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Some 252 million years ago the largest extinction event occurred...
300 million-year-old ‘modern’ beetle from Australia reconstructed
This is a 3-D habitual and environmental reconstructions of Ponomarenkia belmonthensis restored after linedrawing of the holotype and 2-D reconstruction. The plant is Australian...
Water in moon rocks provides clues and questions about lunar history
This shows secondary electron image of pits left by ion microprobe analyses of a heterogeneous apatite grain in Apollo sample 14321, 1047. Water has...
Moon has a water-rich interior
Evidence from ancient volcanic deposits suggests that lunar magma contained substantial amounts of water, bolstering the idea that the moon's interior is water-rich.
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Alcohol boosts recall of earlier learning, study suggests
Having a glass of wine.
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Drinking alcohol improves memory for information learned before the drinking episode began, new research suggests.
In...
Study finds 90 percent of American men overfat
Rather than thinking of these disorders as separate, individual clinical problems, it might be best to consider the relationships between overfat, its various risks,...
Valuing your time more than money is linked to happiness
If people want to focus more on their time and less on money in their lives, they could take some actions to help shift...
Using money to buy time linked to increased happiness
People who spent money on time saving purchases reported greater life satisfaction.
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New research is challenging the age-old adage that money...
