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Thursday, November 12, 2009 Researchers have found a crucial genetic difference between humans and chimps that could help explain our language and speech abilities.

Why can't chimps speak? Connie Casey checks in for a flight to Denver holding Mikayla, her 15-month-old chimpanzee, at Lambert St.

Charging that the California Library Association had broken a promise by partnering with Drexel University Online, the San Jose State University School of Library and Information Science has severed its partnership with CLA, withdrawing from hosting the CALIX electronic mailing list and no longer purchasing several hundred memberships a year for ...

Main Category: Respiratory / Asthma Also Included In: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Smoking / Quit Smoking Air Pollution Major Factor in Fresno Health Air pollution is a major health risk for patients in Fresno, CA, who suffer from chronic lung diseases.

Cellphones might come with some really high resolution cameras these days, but that doesn't mean they are great at macro shots.

PHILADELPHIA, NOVEMBER 9, 2009 A- A nutritionist whose research was instrumental in adding fruits and vegetables to the federal Women, Infants and Children food subsidy will receive the March of Dimes Agnes Higgins Award for outstanding achievement in the field of maternal-fetal nutrition.

MICROSCOPES are invaluable tools to identify blood and other cells when screening for diseases like anemia, tuberculosis and malaria.

Forty years ago this past week, a message was sent across ARPANET, the computer network developed by the Defense Department's Advanced Projects Agency.

Early morning colonoscopies detect more polyps than colon cancer screenings done later in the day, and the number of polyps found decreases by the hour as the day progresses, a new study has found.

Chronic pain affects more than 70 million Americans, which makes it more widespread than heart disease, cancer and diabetes combined.

Significantly More Smokers With Mild-To-Moderate COPD Quit Smoking Using CHANTIX/CHAMPIX Compared With Placebo Main Category: Smoking / Quit Smoking Also Included In: Respiratory / Asthma New study results showed that 42.3 percent of smokers with mild-to-moderate chronic obstructive pulmonary disease who took CHANTIX/CHAMPIX were able to quit ...

SAN DIEGO More smokers with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease quit smoking using an anti-smoking drug from Pfizer than those taking placebo, according to results of a recent study.

Authorities reported a staggering jump in the number of marijuana plants seized in California's eradication effort, claiming a more than 50 percent jump over the previous year.

STANDING among the 10,000 rare books in the stacks of the Linda Hall Library in Kansas City , Bruce Bradley, the director of the history of science special collections, pulls out a copy of "The Starry Messenger," the revelatory book in which Galileo detailed his astronomical observations made with his own "spyglass" - the instrument that would ...

Professor at University of California, Los Angeles School of Law/Visiting Professor at Georgetown University Law Center) has posted Cruelty, Prison Conditions, and the Eighth Amendment on SSRN.

Now, researchers reporting in the November 3rd issue of Current Biology who have compared DNA from four of the world's dozen or so known Falklands wolf museum specimens to that of living canids offer new insight into the evolutionary ancestry of these enigmatic carnivores.

A new analysis of Census data shows that same-sex couples who identify as married are similar to opposite-sex couples in age, income and even parental status, regardless of whether they are legally wed.

Nearly 100 years ago, scientists detected the first signs of cosmic rays - subatomic particles that zip through space at nearly the speed of light.

Brain tumors in childhood cast a long shadow on survivors. The first study of the lasting impact of these tumors -- the most common solid malignancies in childhood -- shows that survivors have ongoing cognitive problems.

A Fields Medalist turns a blog into graduate math seminar. UCLA blogger professor Terence Tao.