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 Climbing As Easy As Walking For Smaller Primates

Smaller primates expend no more energy climbing than they do walking. This surprising discovery may explain the evolutionary edge that encouraged the tiny ancestors of modern humans, apes and monkeys to climb into the trees about 65 million years ago and stay there.

Reducing Intake Of Dietary Fat Prevents Prostate Cancer In Mice
Scientists have showed that lowering intake of the type of fat common in a Western diet helps prevent prostate cancer in mice, the first finding of its kind in a mouse model that closely mimics human cancer, researchers said. The study focused on fat from corn oil, which is made up primarily of omega-6 fatty acids, or the polyunsaturated fat commonly found in the Western diet.

Ice Cores Reveal Fluctuations In Earth's Greenhouse Gases
The newest analysis of trace gases trapped in Antarctic ice cores now provide a reasonable view of greenhouse gas concentrations as much as 800,000 years into the past, and are further confirming the link between greenhouse gas levels and global warming, scientists have reported in Nature.

Incontinence Treatment: Muscle-derived Stem Cells Prove Effective In Reparing Sphincter Damage To Restore Continence
Transplantation of muscle-derived stem cells may provide a safe and effective treatment for patients suffering from urinary incontinence following a surgical procedure. Patients with incontinence resulting from iatrogenic sphincter damage may benefit from this therapy.

Precision Control Of Movement In Robots
Scientists are investigating the characteristics of various types of materials for their use in the generation and measurement of precise movements. When the arms of a robot move to pick up an egg or an electric lamp, the greatest precision possible is essential. To this end, advances in the science and technology of materials have provided the design and control of systems equipped with sensors and actuators built with new materials.

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 El Nino may have helped Magellan cross the Pacific (AP)

Map locates Ferdinand Magellan's route around the world; 2c x 3 1/4 inches; 96.3 mm x 82.6 mmAP - The El Nino phenomenon that has puzzled climate scientists in recent decades may have assisted the first trip around the world nearly 500 years ago.



Researchers warn of nitrogen hazard to environment (AP)
AP - While carbon dioxide has been getting lots of publicity in climate change, reactive forms of nitrogen are also building up in the environment, scientists warn.

Russian supply ship docks to space station (AP)

This NASA handout image received in March 2008 shows the International Space Station. A Russian Progress M-64 cargo ship docked Saturday with the International Space Station, the Interfax news agency reported.(AFP/NASA/File/Nasa Photo)AP - A Russian supply ship docked to the international space station on Friday, delivering more than 2 tons of food, water, equipment and scientific experiments.



Da Vinci to be honored by small helicopter flight (AP)

In this photo released on Thursday, May 15, 2008 by Japanese helicopter manufacturing company Gen Corporation, the company employee Yasutoshi Yokoyama flies in the air by GEN H-4, a compact single-seater helicopter developed by Gen Corporation, during its test flight in Matsumoto in central Japan's Nagano Prefecture Jan. 14, 2005. Gennai Yanagisawa, 75, who has developed claimed to be the world's smallest one-man helicopter will take the aircraft on a flight on May 25 in the birthplace of Leonardo da Vinci near Florence, Italy, in tribute to his original idea. (AP Photo/Gen Corporation, HO)AP - A Japanese man who developed the world's smallest helicopter will take flight in the birthplace of Leonardo da Vinci in tribute to the Renaissance genius' original idea.



2nd Strong Aftershock Hits China Sunday Morning (LiveScience.com)
LiveScience.com - Another strong aftershock struck the Sichuan region of China early Sunday morning.