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- Could dog food additive prevent disabling chemo side effect?
- Turtle eye muscle adapts to deal with obstructed vision
- Check-cashing stores target areas with high crime
- Boys go camping, get shock of their lives
- Mantas, devil rays butchered for apothecary trade now identifiable
- The piano as a typewriter
| Could dog food additive prevent disabling chemo side effect? Posted: 19 Sep 2013 11:06 AM PDT Working with cells in test tubes and in mice, researchers have discovered that a chemical commonly used as a dog food preservative may prevent the kind of painful nerve damage found in the hands and feet of four out of five cancer patients taking the chemotherapy drug Taxol.  |
| Turtle eye muscle adapts to deal with obstructed vision Posted: 19 Sep 2013 09:18 AM PDT While researchers expected that the pond turtle's eyes would operate like other animals with eyes on the side of their heads, this particular species of turtle appears to have characteristics of both front and side-eyed animals.  |
| Check-cashing stores target areas with high crime Posted: 19 Sep 2013 07:58 AM PDT Check-cashing outlets may be strategically targeting persons who live in high-crime neighborhoods, according to researchers.  |
| Boys go camping, get shock of their lives Posted: 19 Sep 2013 07:58 AM PDT Eight-year-old twin boys, camping in a backyard tent, received penetrating blast injuries when a bolt of lightning struck a transformer near their tent, sending them to the emergency department for treatment.  |
| Mantas, devil rays butchered for apothecary trade now identifiable Posted: 19 Sep 2013 07:58 AM PDT Dried filters from the mouths of filter-feeding rays started appearing in apothecary shops in recent years, but there's been no way to know which of these gentle-natured rays was being slaughtered. Now scientists have discovered enough differences to identify the giant manta and eight devil rays using the dried filters.  |
| Posted: 19 Sep 2013 05:54 AM PDT It is quite simple for pianists like the Chinese virtuoso Lang Lang: Whether it is music by Mozart, Rachmaninoff or Tchaikovsky, they can play the piano quickly. Researchers transferred this skill in piano playing to text entry by developing a computational approach that assigns words and letters to notes and chords. In this way experienced as well as hobby-pianists can enter text as fast professional typists.  |
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