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		<title>Poverty: Changing the body, changing the brain</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:24:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Neglect, stress and abuse are all more common among the poor. New studies show that these factors can cause long-term changes in learning, brains and behavior, and suggest how to prevent damage in the vulnerable years. Could treating depressed mothers promote healthy interactions with their kids?]]></description>
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		<title>Testing touch</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://whyfiles.org/?p=3903</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Why do women have better sense of touch? It's all in the size, and big isn't better...]]></description>
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		<title>History of fishing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 21:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new study finds a surprising number of fish, birds and mammals in the oceans 100 and 1,000 years ago. Can this information help regulators slow the decline of important marine animals?]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;No prob&#8221; sez life to crashing asteroids!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 19:50:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The "late heavy bombardment" burned out any life that was around 4 billion years ago -- or not... Plenty of high temperature bacteria could have survived in deep rocks, says a new study.]]></description>
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		<title>Life during the &#8220;other&#8221; Big Bang!</title>
		<link>http://whyfiles.org/2008/life-during-the-other-big-bang/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did the arrival of 4,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons of space junk start the formation of organic molecules roughly 4 billion years ago? "Could be," says a new study from Japan...]]></description>
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		<title>Electric eye learns from animal eye!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:39:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://whyfiles.org/?p=1059</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Lenses cannot project a perfect image on the flat back of a camera, so images are distorted at the edges. A revolutionary camera solves this problem by curving the light detector.]]></description>
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		<title>Measuring invading trees: New system tested in Hawaii</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hawaii is the world's capital of biological invasions. A new airborne gadget measures how bad the situation has become; offers aid in fighting weedy trees.]]></description>
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		<title>Whale research: No killing required</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japan says it must kill hundreds of whales each year to do "research" on them; but science has plenty of ways to study whales without killing them. Digital-recording tags, whale songs,  even whale scats, are the best ways to study these mysterious marine mammals.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:14:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most adhesives can't be reused. But a radical new design, based on the foot of frogs, lizards and insects, shows how engineers can learn from nature to make smarter materials.]]></description>
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		<title>Vitamin C: Could it cure cancer?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 00:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[30 years ago, a legendary biochemist said vitamin C could cure cancer. Har, har, said the scientific establishment. Now a mouse study shows C fighting two cancers. Did brilliant scientist and peace activist Linus Pauling get it right?]]></description>
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