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Saturday, April 19, 2014

ScienceDaily: Strange Science News

ScienceDaily: Strange Science News


Bright points in sun's atmosphere mark patterns deep in its interior

Posted: 17 Apr 2014 04:17 PM PDT

Like a balloon bobbing along in the air while tied to a child's hand, a tracer has been found in the sun's atmosphere to help track the flow of material coursing underneath the sun's surface.

Vitamin B3 might have been made in space, delivered to Earth by meteorites

Posted: 17 Apr 2014 04:17 PM PDT

Ancient Earth might have had an extraterrestrial supply of vitamin B3 delivered by carbon-rich meteorites, according to a new analysis. The result supports a theory that the origin of life may have been assisted by a supply of key molecules created in space and brought to Earth by comet and meteor impacts.

Tracking flu levels with Wikipedia

Posted: 17 Apr 2014 04:16 PM PDT

Can monitoring Wikipedia hits show how many people have the flu? Researchers have developed a method of estimating levels of influenza-like illness in the American population by analyzing Internet traffic on specific flu-related Wikipedia articles.

Residing in high altitude military facilities protects service members from obesity

Posted: 16 Apr 2014 02:19 PM PDT

Overweight U.S. service members are 41 percent less likely to transition to clinical obesity when stationed at military facilities located at high altitude, according to a new study. The quasi-experimental, retrospective study assessed the health records and migration patterns of nearly 100,000 enlisted service members in the active component of the U.S. Army and Air Force with at least two years in the services from records in the Defense Medical Surveillance System.

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