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MSN Health & Fitness Health highlights: Exercise tied to lower risk of colon cancer death 01/03/2011 Exercise may decrease your risk of dying from colon cancer, according to a new study in the journal Cancer Epidemiology. Many people wonder whether exercise will help them stay healthy, said researcher Kathleen Wolin, of the Siteman Cancer Center […]

UPI Exercise drops risk of colon cancer death 01/03/2010 Consistent physical activity can help lower the risk of death from colon cancer, according to a study conducted by researchers at the Siteman Cancer Center at Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. The study showed that those who exercised consistently for […]

Scientific American
 A losing personality
 12/23/2010 In recent years, psychologists have begun looking at personality traits as critical variables in the dieting equation. In fact, your personality may well be the strongest predictor of how likely you are to shed pounds, says psychiatrist C. Robert Cloninger of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. […]

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 Cornstarch might have ended the Gulf spill agony sooner
 12/22/2010 When British Petroleum attempted to stop the Gulf oil spill by pouring heavy mud down the well bore, physicists watching the situation speculated that the top kill effort would fail due to an instability problem. Washington University in St. Louis physicist Jonathan […]

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 Pluto may host an ocean
 12/21/2010 If a new computer model is correct, the dwarf planet Pluto harbors a sizeable pool of liquids beneath its thick, icy shell. Scientists are looking at Pluto’s surface for clues about the shape of its interior. “Pluto’s shape should reflect its construction,” said planetary scientist Bill McKinnon, with […]

The Telegraph (Calcutta, India) Share credit call to Bihar non-residents 12/18/2010 Hundreds of delegates participated in a two-day conclave to discuss the challenges of change in Bihar, India. M.J. Warsi, a professor in linguistics and culture of South Asia, Washington University, said, “I have a commitment towards my state. I want to open an institute […]

BBC News Iapetus moon’s mighty ridge stirs debate 12/16/2010 The mountainous ridge that circles the equator on the Saturnian moon Iapetus is both weird and spectacular. No explanation for its existence has yet won total support, but a new study argues that the ridge could then have come from debris that once orbited the moon. […]

Scientific American
 Hydrogen production comes naturally to ocean microbe
 12/14/2010 A seemingly unremarkable ocean microbe turns out to be a multi-tasker — not only can it photosynthesize, but it can also produce large amounts of hydrogen, opening up a potential way to make the gas cheaply for fuel. The single-celled cyanobacterium Cyanothece 51142 can make […]

International Business Times HK 64 percent of elderly black Americans face risk of poverty 12/14/2010 As many as 50 percent of Americans between the ages of 60 and 90 will face at least one year of poverty or near poverty going forward and that poverty will not be evenly distributed across the population, according to […]