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Chicken pox vaccine reduces shingles risk in kids -- study of 172,000 kids used EHRsHerpes zoster, also known as shingles, is very rare among children who have been vaccinated against chicken pox, according to a Kaiser Permanente study in the December issue of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Journal. The study, the largest of its kind, used electronic health records to ...
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Pacific Northwest Earthquakes Could Strike Closer to Home | Wired Science | Wired.comMajor earthquakes occurring along the Cascadia subduction zone off the coast of Washington state could strike closer to the state’s urban areas than some models have suggested, a new study notes. sciencenewsGPS data gathered at dozens of sites throughout western Washington hint that slippage ...
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Strange worms discovered eating dead whales - LiveScience- msnbc.comSome truly strange creatures can be found on the ocean seafloor, and boneworms are among the most bizarre — they have no eyes or mouth and feast on the bones of dead whale carcasses. Now scientists have identified even more species of this recently discovered worm, and their analysis reveals ...
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Lcross Mission Finds Water on Moon, NASA Scientists Say - NYTimes.comWater Found on Moon, Researchers Say There is water on the Moon , scientists stated unequivocally on Friday. “Indeed yes, we found water,” Anthony Colaprete, the principal investigator for NASA ’s Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite , said in a news conference. “And we didn’t ...
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LCROSS Impact Finds Water on the MoonData from the down-looking near-infrared spectrometer. The red curve shows how the spectra would look for a "grey" or "colorless" warm (230 C) dust cloud. The yellow areas indicate the water absorption bands. The argument that the moon is a dry, desolate place no longer holds water. Secrets the ...
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Innovation: Can technology persuade us to save energy? - tech - 06 November 2009 - New ScientistIf technology is to save us from climate change, it has some tough challenges to master: taming wave, wind and sun, cheaply scrubbing carbon dioxide from the air or mastering fusion. But a growing number of people think another should be added to the list: mastering human nature. This ...
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World’s Freakiest Worm Gets Expanded Family Tree | Wired Science | Wired.comFive years after discovering some of the strangest creatures in the world — mouthless worms that live in the bones of dead whales — scientists have taken a peek into their genes. Though not complete, the glimpse shows these creatures to be far more complicated than was known. The worms, found ...
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Midwest quakes are aftershocks from 1800s - LiveScience- msnbc.comThe small earthquakes that sporadically rattle the central United States may actually be aftershocks from a few extremely large quakes that occurred in the region almost 200 years ago, according to a new study. The New Madrid Earthquakes, which struck between December 1811 and February 1812, ...
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An Epidemic of Fear: How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endangers Us All | MagazineThis isn’t a religious dispute, like the debate over creationism and intelligent design. It’s a challenge to traditional science that crosses party, class, and religious lines. It is partly a reaction to Big Pharma’s blunders and PR missteps, from Vioxx to illegal marketing ploys, which have ...
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San Andreas Affected By 2004 Sumatran Quake; Largest Quakes Can Weaken Fault Zones WorldwideU.S. seismologists have found evidence that the massive 2004 earthquake that triggered killer tsunamis throughout the Indian Ocean weakened at least a portion of California's famed San Andreas Fault. The results, which appear this week in the journal Nature, suggest that the Earth's largest ...
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