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Tests Find More Than 200 Chemicals in Newborn Umbilical Cord Blood U.S. minority infants are born carrying hundreds of chemicals in their bodies, according to a report released today by an environmental group. The Environmental Working Group 's study commissioned five laboratories to examine the umbilical cord blood of 10 babies of African-American, Hispanic and Asian heritage and found more than 200 chemicals in each newborn. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Is the great white shark slowly slipping into extinction? It's not exactly easy to study the great white shark ( Carcharodon carcharia s) in the wild, but new evidence suggests that while we've been worrying about tigers, gorillas and other obviously rare species, the great white has been quietly disappearing from the oceans . [More] rss.sciam.com |
New York Police Search Harlem River for Woman Divers looked for the woman, who was said to have fallen in near the 145th Street Bridge, but had to call off the search because of strong tides. nytimes.com |
Trying To Do Too Much: Why Multitasking Fails When we do two things at the same time, our brain divides the work in half, literally: each hemisphere concentrates on one task, reports a study in the April 16 issue of Science . [More] rss.sciam.com |