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Space Habitats For Colonists - And Contamination Free Boots On Mars - With Telerobotic Avatars

Space Habitats For Colonists - And Contamination Free Boots On Mars - With Telerobotic Avatars

This is part 3 of my series on Mars, planet of surprises, great to explore, not so great to colonize. In "Is it as good a place to live as a desert? we saw that Mars is a more inhospitable place…
Kin Selection And How Transgender Males Might Have Been An Asset In Some Ancestral Societies

Kin Selection And How Transgender Males Might Have Been An Asset In Some Ancestral Societies

Transgendered androphilic males may have been accepted in ancient hunter-gatherer cultures because they were an extra set of hands to support their families, according to a new article in Human…
Pheromones: Tears For Fears Is Not Just A Bad 1980s Band

Pheromones: Tears For Fears Is Not Just A Bad 1980s Band

Nocturnal animals use their noses to stay alive. Mice, among others, depend on their impressive olfactory powers to sniff out food or avoid danger in the dark, using a streamlined system that sends…
New Tuberculosis Vaccine Phase One Clinical Trial Results

New Tuberculosis Vaccine Phase One Clinical Trial Results

A tuberculosis vaccine developed at McMaster University published phase one clinical study results today.  Tuberculosis is a serious public health threat. One-third of world's population is…
Cupcake Bans At Elementary School Classroom Parties May Reduce Obesity

Cupcake Bans At Elementary School Classroom Parties May Reduce Obesity

Nearly one in three American children are overweight or obese, but sugary sweets are often on the menu at elementary school classroom parties.  Previous small-scale studies have found that "kids…
If Mars Is For Hardy Explorers Only, Where Is The Best Place In The Solar System For First Time Colonists?

If Mars Is For Hardy Explorers Only, Where Is The Best Place In The Solar System For First Time Colonists?

This is part 3 of my series on Mars, planet of surprises, great to explore, not so great to colonize. In "Is it as good a place to live as a desert? we saw that Mars is a more inhospitable place…
As Flowering Plants Radiated, Early Mammal Varieties Declined

As Flowering Plants Radiated, Early Mammal Varieties Declined

The great angiosperm radiation of the mid-Cretaceous, the dramatic explosion of flowering plant species that occurred about 100 million years ago, is thought to have been good news for evolving…
Cocaine Use Can You More Susceptible To HIV (Beyond The Obvious)

Cocaine Use Can You More Susceptible To HIV (Beyond The Obvious)

Risky sexual behavior and substance abuse have always orbited HIV but it isn't just shared needles; drugs like cocaine make people engage in lots of other risky behaviors. The epidemiology of…
Elevated Radioactive Contaminants Found At Shale Gas Wastewater Discharge Site

Elevated Radioactive Contaminants Found At Shale Gas Wastewater Discharge Site

Industry has made efforts to reuse or to transport shale gas wastewater to deep injection wells, but wastewater is still discharged into the environment, after being treated, in some states.  In…
What Happens To A Bridge When One Side Uses Mediterranean Sea Level And Another The North Sea?

What Happens To A Bridge When One Side Uses Mediterranean Sea Level And Another The North Sea?

Where is 'sea level' and how far above sea level is a particular place located?  Quite a lot of things may go wrong in bridge building and the inhabitants of the German and the Swiss parts of…

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