Study Shows Antibiotic Cycling Reduces Hospital MSRA Deaths

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Doctors at the University of Virginia Health System have significantly reduced MRSA infections among surgical intensive care patients by using antibiotic cycling, a method of rotating drugs at regular intervals.
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Scientists Find Our Eyes Evolved for ‘X-Ray’ Vision

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The advantage of using two eyes to see the world around us has long been associated solely with our capacity to see in three dimensions. Now, a new study has uncovered a truly eye-opening advantage to binocular vision: the ability to see through things.
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Teen suicide spike was no fluke

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A troubling study in the September 3rd Journal of the American Medical Association raises new concerns about kids committing suicide in this country. After a one year spike in the number of suicides, doctors were hoping to see more normal numbers in the latest study, but they didn’t. The number of kids committing suicide in the U.S. remains higher than expected, and that has doctors and parents looking for answers.
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Unexplored Arctic region to be mapped

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A scientific expedition this fall will map the unexplored Arctic seafloor where the U.S. and Canada may have sovereign rights over natural resources such as oil and gas and control over activities such as mining.
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DNA editing tool flips its target

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Imagine having to copy an entire book by hand without missing a comma. Our cells face a similar task every time they divide. They must duplicate both their DNA and a subtle pattern of punctuation-like modifications on the DNA known as methylation.
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Physicists discover ‘doubly strange’ particle

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Physicists of the DZero experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have discovered a new particle made of three quarks, the Omega-sub-b (?b). The particle contains two strange quarks and a bottom quark (s-s-b). It is an exotic relative of the much more common proton and weighs about six times the proton mass.
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New antihacking system to protect wireless sensors

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Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) used to detect and report events including hurricanes, earthquakes, and forest fires and for military surveillance and antiterrorist activities are prone to subterfuge. In the International Journal of Security and Networks, computer scientists at Florida Atlantic University describe a new antihacking system to protect WSNs.
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Scientists uncover Ebola cell-invasion strategy

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University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researchers have discovered a key biochemical link in the process by which the Ebola Zaire virus infects cells — a critical step to finding a way to treat the deadly disease produced by the virus.
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Stronger Winds A’ Blowin’

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Tropical cyclones are becoming more powerful, potentially due to global warming
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Finding a Guy Who Looks Like Dear Old Dad

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Study reinforces the idea that men and women choose partners who resemble their own parents
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