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SCIENTISTS FIND TICK BITES CAN CAUSE AN ALLERGY TO RED MEAT

2014-07-29 23:16:33| Cattle Today

Steak lovers beware: scientists have discovered certain tick bites can cause an allergy to red meat.

Scientists find evidence of long-term warming inside Greenland's ice sheet

2014-06-29 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Alaska Dispatch: In the mid-20th century, when Carl Benson was traveling Greenland gathering data he would use to write his Ph.D. thesis on the temperature, structure and composition of the hard-packed snow that covers that island, conditions deep beneath the surface were fairly consistent: white, firm, cold and dry. If you could imagine cutting a wall of Styrofoam, thats what it was like, said Benson, now a professor emeritus with the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute. Related: How dust...

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Scientists find surprising biodiversity between forests

2014-05-20 22:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: The Theory of Island Biogeography, coined by Robert MacArthur and E.O. Wilson, helps describe why species are distributed as they are. The larger and closer an island is to another (or to the mainland), the more biodiverse it should be. This can be used to describe actual islands in the ocean, like the Galapagos, or even mountaintops, like the Madrean Sky Islands in southern Arizona and New Mexico. In human-dominated countryside areas, forests are often fragmented and scattered among a matrix...

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Vampirism is real: Scientists find that old animals can be rejuvenated with the blood of the young and innocent

2014-05-05 13:12:30| Extremetech

Well, here's a Monday morning doozy: It turns out that drinking the blood of the young and innocent may actually improve your strength and intelligence. Two separate research groups, publishing their results in Science and Nature Medicine today, found that transfusing young mouse blood into old mice can improve their cognitive and exercise capability, significantly reducing two major aspects of aging. This effect should also apply to humans. Yes, vampirism is real.

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