| FDA warning: some patients cannot process Plavix |
| Friday, March 12, 2010 - (AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration is adding its strongest warning to the label for Plavix, cautioning that some patients do not respond to the blockbuster blood thinner. |
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| Harnessing Our Sensory Superpowers |
| Friday, March 12, 2010 - (PhysOrg.com) -- New research in perceptual psychology and brain science is revealing that our senses pick up information about the world that we thought was only available to other species, Lawrence Rosenblum, UCR professor of psychology, writes in a new book. |
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| Process could clean up water used in natural gas drilling |
| Friday, March 12, 2010 - (PhysOrg.com) -- Texas A&M Engineering is playing a role in a technological breakthrough that could clean up the contaminated water recovered from drilling natural gas wells in shale deposits through the process of "hydraulic fracturing." |
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| Coffee car |
| Friday, March 12, 2010 - The waste fuel for your motor that won't cost a lot |
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| The brain scan that can 'see people's memories' |
| Friday, March 12, 2010 - Scientists say they have been able to tell which past event a person is recalling using a brain scan. |
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| What happened next? Zebra puts head in hippo's mouth |
| Friday, March 12, 2010 - A zebra at Zurich Zoo appeared doomed when visitors saw its head in the mouth of a hippo, but it was only cleaning its teeth. |
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| Huge meat-eater plant prefers poo |
| Friday, March 12, 2010 - The largest meat-eating plant in the world is designed not to eat small animals, but small animal poo, scientists discover. |
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| Siberian tigers die at China zoo |
| Friday, March 12, 2010 - Eleven rare Siberian tigers die at a zoo in north-eastern China, raising fears over treatment of captive animals in the country. |
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| Mathematical model can help communities better evaluate sex offender policies |
| Friday, March 12, 2010 - (PhysOrg.com) -- A new mathematical model developed by Indiana University Bloomington and Arizona State University geographers could help communities that are in the midst of passing or reforming sex offender laws. The researchers describe the model and report its first test in an Early View edition of Papers in Regional Science. By forcing users to quantify risk and issues of special concern, the model can help the policymakers of concerned communities to focus on the spatial management of sex |
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| UK survey reveals identity theft fears |
| Friday, March 12, 2010 - Researchers from the Information Security Group (ISG) at Royal Holloway, University of London worked together with UK online to conduct a survey of privacy attitudes and behaviours. Focusing on our concerns about privacy while using the internet, the survey reveals that online identity theft is currently the greatest fear for internet users. |
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