With this post I take my leave of GetReligion. Terry Mattingly should be along either later today or early tomorrow to announce further changes. I’m skedaddling to devote time to a book-in-progress about hypocrisy, which should land in finer retail outlets next year. Don’t know if I’ll be back to these cyber pages but […]
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An ambitious search startup in China is about ready to make an initial public offering in the U.S. stock market and investors — including Google — are interested.
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Future shuttle flights may be grounded for awhile, so mission managers decide to keep Discovery’s crew at the international space station an extra day to help with station maintenance.
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The embryos of a long-necked, herbivorous dinosaur are the earliest ever recorded for any terrestrial vertebrate and point to how primitive dinosaurs evolved into the largest animals ever to walk on earth, say scientists from the University of Toronto at Mississauga (UTM), the Smithsonian Institution and the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa.
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Two studies by researchers at the University of Chicago show how the bacteria that cause the plague manage to outsmart the immune system and how, by slightly altering one of the microbe’s tools, the researchers produced what may be the first safe and effective vaccine.
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Flavorful new apricots known as “Kettleman” may soon begin showing up in supermarket produce sections. This juicy, sweet-tart fruit is the newest addition to the series of delectable stone fruits from expert tree fruit breeders with the Agricultural Research Service’s (ARS) San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Sciences Center in Parlier, Calif., about 200 miles north of Los Angeles.
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Two new studies support the hypothesis that combination antiretroviral drug therapy may reduce the risk of mother-to-child HIV transmission through breastfeeding, findings that could have significant implications in the developing world. Both studies appear in the September 1 issue of The Journal of Infectious Diseases, now available online.
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The downsides of conventional molecular machines are that they are driven as an ensemble, by external light or chemistry, for example, and they are big — made up of many molecules. These factors make these machines difficult to control. In a recent theoretical paper, two Northwestern University chemists have shown how molecular machines can be driven individually by applying an electric current that creates an internal energy source.
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Mayo Clinic researchers have found that the cause of chronic sinus infections lies in the nasal mucus — the snot — not in the nasal and sinus tissue targeted by standard treatment.
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This week, The Christian Science Monitor interviewed Senator Rick Santorum as part of his new book tour. And the excerpt is just lame. I mean, I’m glad to know that the Rt. Hon. Sen. is “absolutely not” bothered that he is a polarizing figure, that he has “never really worried” about winning his next race, […]
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