Sofia Schonell | May 27, 2011
Ionizing radiation is not without danger to human populations Indeed, exposure to nuclear radiation leads to an increase in male births relative to female births, according to a new study by Hagen Scherb and Kristina Voigt from the Helmholtz Zentrum München Their work shows that radiation from atomic bomb testing before the Partial Test Ban [...]
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Sofia Schonell | May 18, 2011
A Salinas, CA public hospital district, already under fire for granting its outgoing chief executive $3.9 million in retirement payments, also gave him nearly $1 million as part of an unusual severance agreement, according to records obtained by The Times. The payment fattened what was already considered one of the more generous public pensions ever [...]
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Sofia Schonell | May 17, 2011
CSIRO scientists have shown that a new experimental vaccine helps to protect horses against the deadly Hendra virus Dr Deborah Middleton from CSIRO’s Australian Animal Health Laboratory AAHL will announce the successful progress to develop the vaccine at the Australian Veterinary Association conference in Adelaide today “Our trials so far have shown that the vaccine [...]
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Sofia Schonell | May 12, 2011
Around one in 20 men is infertile, but despite the best efforts of scientists, in many cases the underlying causes of infertility have remained a mystery New findings by a team of Australian and Swedish researchers, however, will go a long way towards explaining this mystery According to their research published in Science this week, [...]
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