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...Gideon Lack of King's College London published a startling study comparing the rate of peanut allergies in children in London with that of children in Tel Aviv. The study of 10,000 Jewish children, which appeared in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, found that kids in the U.K. were almost 10 times as likely to have a peanut allergy as their peers in Israel, says Lack...
...study published in January in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, British researchers found that among 79 children who tested positive for peanut allergy in blood tests, only nine exhibited allergic symptoms upon eating peanuts. That may be because blood tests, which detect Immunoglobin E (IgE), an antibody that hunts for foreign particles entering the body, are not always accurate. Some people with moderate amounts of IgE in the blood are classified as "food sensitive"; those with larger amounts of the antibody are most likely food allergic. But the blood test doesn't distinguish between the two conditions...
...polar-bear populations is nigh, it's not clear where the new lines will be drawn, says Robert Rockwell, a biologist with the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and co-author of a new paper documenting a spate of recent grizzly sightings in the journal The Canadian Field-Naturalist. Before 1996, there had been no evidence of grizzlies in the national park, but between 1996 and 2009, Rockwell says, there were nine confirmed sightings, plus three more...
...liberals actually smarter? A libertarian (and, as such, nonpartisan) researcher, Satoshi Kanazawa of the London School of Economics and Political Science, has just written a paper that is set to be published in March by the journal Social Psychology Quarterly. The paper investigates not only whether conservatives are dumber than liberals but also why that might be so. (See the top 10 political gaffes...
...competition, sponsored by the journal Science in conjunction with the National Science Foundation, presented the award to Sung Hoon Kang, Boaz Pokroy, and Joanna Aizenberg from the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences...