(PhysOrg.com) — A team of scientists – led by Professor Andrew C Scott of the Department of Earth Sciences at Royal Holloway, University of London – have revealed that neither comet nor catastrophe were the cause for abrupt climate change some 12,900 years ago.
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Comet cause for climate change theory dealt blow by fungus
(PhysOrg.com) — No one has ever won a race on peg legs if they were running against others with flexible legs. But, until now, mathematical locomotion models predicted that stiff legs were the most efficient.
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More Realistic Biomechanics In New Computer Locomotion Model
(AP) — Motion controls and social gaming were the hot topics at this week’s Game Developers Conference, the annual convention of game designers, programmers and executives.
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Innovation on display at Games Conference
(PhysOrg.com) — Using a class of drugs being clinically tested to treat other kinds of cancer, researchers at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health found that the drugs were the first to stop the latent form of EBV infection from causing disease.
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Drugs may shut down several Epstein-Barr virus-induced diseases
Nearly 20 years ago Huntington Potter kicked up a storm of controversy with the idea that Down syndrome and Alzheimer’s were the same disease. Now the evidence is in: He was right.
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Studies demonstrate link among Alzheimer’s disease, Down syndrome and atherosclerosis