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Gene for Exercise
July 15, 2008, by TechNewsDaily.com, staff
Physical exercise doesn't just burn fat, it also pumps a gene that makes our fat burning machinery work better.
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Video - Jane Goodall's Wild Chimpanzees
July 15, 2008, by TechNewsDaily.com, staff
Jane Goodall returns to the Gombe region of Tanzania to renew ties with the wild chimpanzee family she has studied for three decades. George Page narrates
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Video - Attack by Chicken
July 15, 2008, by TechNewsDaily.com, staff
The silkmoth caterpillar under attack by a chicken. After the attacked, the caterpillar made clicking noises and released a pool of foul brown liquid. The caterpillar survived.
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Video - Puddle-jumping hunter
July 15, 2008, by TechNewsDaily.com, staff
How an eel catfish hunts on land.
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Cancer Smart Bomb
July 15, 2008, by TechNewsDaily.com, staff
Tiny nano-warheads, loaded for chemotherapy, seek out cancer cells in this new therapeutic technique.
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Underwater Flare-up
July 15, 2008, by TechNewsDaily.com, staff
Video taken by Jason II shows lava is rising in the vent so fast that a small glimpse of red glow can be seen intermittently before it crusts over or is blown apart.
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Underwater Flare-up
July 15, 2008, by TechNewsDaily.com, staff
Video taken by ROPOS at the edge of Brimstone Pit near the summit of NW Rota 1 volcano, showing ash and sulfur-laden eruptions from the crater.
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Robot on Mind Control
July 15, 2008, by TechNewsDaily.com, staff
The robot is responding to cues from a graduate student's brain activity, the robot picks up one of the objects, and carries it to a location of the person's choice.
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Video - Extraordinary Birds
July 15, 2008, by TechNewsDaily.com, staff
Stories from around the world of special meaning roles and remarkable talents of birds. Diana Cardea narrates
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Implant Helps Blind Cats See
July 15, 2008, by TechNewsDaily.com, staff
Microchip eye implants help Persian cats suffering from hereditary eye disease.
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Blowing smoke reveals how flying bat disrupts the ...
July 15, 2008, by TechNewsDaily.com, staff
Blowing smoke reveals how flying bat disrupts the air. Credit: K. Breuer, Brown University
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Do A Back-Flip
July 15, 2008, by TechNewsDaily.com, staff
Up and over and back on your feet. The key is confidence.
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Video - Aspirin and Sex Drive
July 15, 2008, by TechNewsDaily.com, staff
Somewhere a young husband's saying to his wife, 'Sorry dear, not tonight, my mother had a headache 30 years ago."
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Video - Here’s to Your Brain
July 15, 2008, by TechNewsDaily.com, staff
Antioxidant in red wine protects against Alzheimer’s disease.
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Addiction: It's In Your Genes
July 15, 2008, by TechNewsDaily.com, staff
Vulnerability to drug and alcohol abuse has been located to a particular gene. But will this finding stand the test of time?
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Video - Loss of Arctic Sea Ice
July 15, 2008, by TechNewsDaily.com, staff
This animation shows the year-to-year variability of Arctic sea ice. By about 2040, the Arctic may be nearly devoid of sea ice during the late summer unless greenhouse gas emissions are significantly…
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Video - Multiple Mates
July 15, 2008, by TechNewsDaily.com, staff
Female mouse-like marsupial, mates with many males, each event lasting up to 14 hours.
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Various_Space_Assets
July 15, 2008, by TechNewsDaily.com, staff
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How to Time Travel
July 15, 2008, by TechNewsDaily.com, staff
How can you swim upstream in the river of time? Physicists Charles Liu and Michio Kaku have some answers.
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Video - Salamander Goes Ballistic
July 15, 2008, by TechNewsDaily.com, staff
The giant palm salamander Bolitoglossa dofleini shoots out its tongue with more instantaneous power than any known vertebrate muscle.
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Video - Power Walking
July 15, 2008, by TechNewsDaily.com, staff
A subject experiences the robotic ankle exoskeleton powered for the first time.
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Video - Spider Coupling
July 15, 2008, by TechNewsDaily.com, staff
One cycle in the copulatory movements of a male Physocylus globosus spider during sex with a female.
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Video - Paralysis Treatment 1
July 15, 2008, by TechNewsDaily.com, staff
A mouse is shown that has received an artificially induced major spinal cord injury, rendering it paraplegic in the hind legs.
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