August 26, 2011

The convergence of science and religion

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This blog (convergencesciencereligion.org) is no longer active on the web. Go to Science and Mormonism for a continuation of the discussion...
January 31, 2011

Specific Changes in the Brain Associated With Sleep Deprivation Described in New Study

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ScienceDaily for November 4, 2010 reported on sleep deprivation and our brains. The study, available in Frontiers in Neuroscience , has cr...
January 29, 2011

High School Biology Teachers in U.S. Reluctant to Endorse Evolution in Class, Study Finds

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ScienceDaily for January 28, 2011 reported on classroom teaching of evolution. The majority of public high school biology teachers in the ...
January 26, 2011

Parental Divorce Linked to Suicidal Thoughts

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ScienceDaily for January 19, 2011 reported on divorce and suicides among children. In a paper published online in the journal Psychiatry R...
January 25, 2011

Smoking May Be Associated With Increased Risk of Breast Cancer

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ScienceDaily for January 24, 2011 reported on smoking and breast cancer. "Smoking before menopause was positively associated with bre...
January 24, 2011

Close-Knit Pairs of Supermassive Black Holes Discovered in Merging Galaxies

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ScienceDaily for January 19, 2011 reported on black holes and merging galaxies. These black-hole pairs, also called binaries, are about a ...

No Direct Link Between Black Holes and Dark Matter, Scientists Find

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ScienceDaily for January 20, 2011 reported on black h0les and dark matter. Massive black holes have been found at the centres of almost al...
January 23, 2011

Montrealers Are Feeding Fish Prozac; Research Shows Influence on Brain Activity While Long-Term Consequences Are Unclear

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ScienceDaily for January 22, 2011 reported on pollution of water in Montreal. Sauvé was quick to point out that there is no immediate dang...
January 20, 2011

When Video Games Get Problematic So Do Smoking, Drug Use and Aggression

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ScienceDaily for January 19, 2011 reported on gaming by adolescents. A new study on gaming and health in adolescents, conducted by resear...

Eating More Fruit and Vegetables Is Linked to a Lower Risk of Dying from Ischemic Heart Disease

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ScienceDaily for January 19, 2011 reported on the eating of fruits and vegetables and heart disease. A European study investigating the li...

More Asteroids Could Have Made Life's Ingredients

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ScienceDaily for January 19, 2011 reported on amino acids in asteroids. Amino acids are used to build proteins, which are used by life to ...
January 19, 2011

Scitable Library

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There is an online science library that offers free use by visitors to the site. The library is called Scitable and it currently focuses o...

Patients Using Warfarin Have Higher Risk of Death After Trauma, Study Finds

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ScienceDaily for January 18, 2011 reported on stress among persons using Warfarin. "The prevalence of warfarin use in the United Stat...

Smoking Accounts for Up to 60 Percent of Gender Gap in Deaths Across Europe, Research Finds

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ScienceDaily for January 18, 2011 reported on smoking and death. The reasons why women have been outliving men in developed European coun...

Vitamin D Absorption Is Diminished in Patients With Crohn's Disease, Researchers Find

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ScienceDaily for January 18, 2011 reported on vitamin D levels. Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have for the...

Vitamin D Levels Lower in African-Americans, Research Finds

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ScienceDaily for October 1, 2010 reported on vitamin D levels in African-Americans. "We know that darker skin pigmentation acts somew...
January 18, 2011

Smoking Causes Genetic Damage Within Minutes After Inhaling

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ScienceDaily for January 17, 2011 reported on the genetic effects of smoking. Stephen S. Hecht, Ph.D., and colleagues point out in the rep...
January 16, 2011

Why Coffee Protects Against Diabetes

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ScienceDaily for January15, 2011 reported on coffee and diabetes. Reporting with colleagues in the current edition of the journal Diabete...