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Astronomers Get Best View Yet Of Infant Stars At Feeding Time
Astronomers have used ESO's Very
Large Telescope Interferometer to
conduct the first high resolution
survey that combines spectroscopy
and interferometry on
intermediate-mass infant stars.
... > full story
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Can Genetic Information Be Controlled By Light?
Can genetic information be
controlled by light? Researchers
report sequence-dependent effects
of light on DNA. DNA, the molecule
that acts as the carrier of
genetic information in all forms
of life, is highly resistant
... > full story
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Journey Toward The Center Of The Earth: One-of-a-kind Microorganism Lives All Alone
The first ecosystem with only a
single biological species has been
discovered and its genome analyzed
by a multi-institutional and
multidisciplinary team. Living 2.8
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Promising New Material Could Improve Gas Mileage
With gasoline at high prices, it's
disheartening to know that up to
three-quarters of the potential
energy you are paying for is
wasted. Now researchers have
identified a promising new
material that could transform a
... > full story
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Ripple Effect: Water Snails Offer New Propulsion Possibilities
A UC San Diego engineer has
revealed a new mode of propulsion
based on how water snails create
ripples of slime to crawl upside
down beneath the surface. ... > full story
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Small Intestine Can Sense And React To Bitter Toxins In Food
Toxins in food often have a bad,
bitter taste that makes people
want to spit them out. New
research finds that bitterness
also slows the digestive process,
keeping bad food in the stomach
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Tropical Rainforest And Mountain Species May Be Threatened By Global Warming
Contrary to conventional wisdom,
tropical plant and animal species
living in some of the warmest
places on Earth may be threatened
by global warming, according to
ecologists. ... > full story
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Deep Magma Matters: Volcanic Eruptions More Complex And Harder To Predict
Volcanoes function in a far more
complex way than previously
thought, making future eruptions
even harder to predict. Although
the Soufrière Hills volcano
on the Caribbean island of
... > full story
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Researchers Discover How Infectious Bacteria Can Switch Species
Scientists in the UK have
developed a rapid new way of
checking for toxic genes in
disease-causing bacteria which
infect insects and humans. Their
findings could in the future lead
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Structure Of 'Beneficial' Virus That Can Infect Cancer Cells Solved
Researchers have, for the first
time, solved the structure of a
virus that can infect specific
cancer cells. This new knowledge
may help drug designers tweak the
pathogen enough so that it can
... > full story
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- Astronomers Spy Infant Stars At Feeding Time
- Can Genetic Information Be Controlled By Light?
- Microorganism Lives All Alone Deep Underground
- Promising New Material Could Boost Gas Mileage
- Water Snails Offer New Propulsion Possibilities
- Small Intestine Can Sense Bitter Toxins In Food
- Warming Threats To Tropical Rainforest Species
- Volcanic Eruptions More Complex Than Thought
- How Infectious Bacteria Can Switch Species
- Virus That Can Infect Cancer Cells Solved
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Rapid Improvement In Overactive Bladder Symptoms, International Drug Study Shows
October 10, 2008 — Patients with overactive bladders who took part in a multi-centre study to measure the effectiveness of solifenacin noticed improvements in as little as three days, according to new ... > full story -
Mimicking Gecko Feet: Dry Adhesive Based On Carbon Nanotubes Gets Stronger
October 10, 2008 — The race for the best "gecko foot" dry adhesive just got a new competitor this week with a stronger and more practical material reported by US ... > full story -
Early Breast Cancer: LHRH Agonists Show Considerable Promise
October 10, 2008 — Women who have had early stage breast cancer surgically removed, and whose tumor cells are stimulated by the hormone estrogen, can benefit from taking luteinizing hormone releasing hormone ... > full story -
Biological Alternatives To Chemical Pesticides
October 10, 2008 — With increasing consumer pressure on both farmers and supermarkets to minimize the use of chemical pesticides in fruit and vegetables, a new study looks at why there is currently little use of ... > full story -
Scientists Adapt Economics Theory To Trace Brain's Information Flow
October 10, 2008 — Scientists have used a technique originally developed for economic study to become the first to overcome a significant challenge in brain research: determining the flow of information from one part ... > full story
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Genetic Finding Implicates Innate Immune System In Major Cause Of Blindness
October 10, 2008 — Scientists have identified one of the genes implicated in age-related macular degeneration, the most common cause of blindness in developed ... > full story -
Daily Dose Of Ginkgo May Prevent Brain Cell Damage After Stroke, Mouse Studies Suggest
October 10, 2008 — Working with genetically engineered mice, researchers at Johns Hopkins have shown that daily doses of a standardized extract from the leaves of the ginkgo tree can prevent or reduce brain damage ... > full story -
One Dose Of Hormone May Halt Cell Suicide Following A Heart Attack, Study Suggests
October 10, 2008 — Two things happen following a heart attack--necrosis (normal cell death) and apoptosis (programmed cell death) -- and both are bad. Now researchers in Japan have found that a single intravenous dose ... > full story -
Scientists Engineer Superconducting Thin Films
October 10, 2008 — Scientists have successfully produced two-layer thin films where neither layer is superconducting on its own, but which exhibit a nanometer-thick region of superconductivity at their interface. The ... > full story -
Flawed Corporate Watchdog Methods Helped Fuel Economic Crisis, Expert Says
October 10, 2008 — Archaic corporate governing systems that failed to ferret out risky business deals helped stoke the nation's deepest financial meltdown since the Great Depression, a University of Illinois business ... > full story
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InsomniaNew Light On Link Between Snoring And Cognitive Deficits In Children
October 10, 2008 — About two-thirds of children with sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) -- snoring or obstructive sleep apnea -- have some degree of cognitive deficit, but the severity of the cognitive deficit has been ... > full story -
Wielding Microbe Against Microbe, Beetle Defends Its Food Source
October 10, 2008 — As the southern pine beetle moves through the forest boring tunnels inside the bark of trees, it brings with it both a helper and a competitor. The helper is a fungus that the insect plants inside ... > full story -
How Effective Are Probiotics In Irritable Bowel Syndrome?
October 10, 2008 — Several new studies highlight the safety and efficacy of probiotics in improving symptoms and normalizing bowel movement frequency in patients suffering from constipation or diarrhea related to ... > full story -
Baked Slug: New Method To Test Fireproofing Material
October 10, 2008 — Researchers have developed a technique for measuring a key thermal property of fire-resistive materials at high temperatures. The measurement technique has already been adopted commercially and ... > full story -
Species Extinction By Asteroid A Rarity
October 10, 2008 — New research argues in favor of a "sick earth" mechanism for most extinctions, rather than external event like an asteroid ... > full story
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How Fatty Foods Curb Hunger
October 10, 2008 — Fatty foods may not be the healthiest diet choice, but those rich in unsaturated fats -- such as avocados, nuts and olive oil -- have been found to play a pivotal role in sending this important ... > full story -
Diversity Of Plant-eating Fishes May Be Key To Recovery Of Coral Reefs
October 10, 2008 — A report scheduled to be published this week in the early edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that maintaining the proper balance of herbivorous fishes may ... > full story -
New Screening Technologies Improve Detection Of Polyps During Colonoscopy
October 10, 2008 — Two new studies highlight new technologies with the potential to improve the detection of colorectal polyps and flat lesions during ... > full story -
Satellite Data Reveals Extreme Summer Snowmelt In Northern Greenland
October 10, 2008 — The northern part of the Greenland ice sheet experienced extreme snowmelt during the summer of 2008, with large portions of the area subject to record melting days. This conclusion is based on an ... > full story -
Educational Policy
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Political Science
Educational Psychology
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SpiritualityNarcissistic People Most Likely To Emerge As Leaders
October 10, 2008 — When a group is without a leader, you can often count on a narcissist to take charge, a new study suggests. Researchers found that people who score high in narcissism tend to take control of ... > full story
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Child DevelopmentClue To Genetic Cause Of Fatal Birth Defect
October 10, 2008 — A novel enzyme may play a major role in anencephaly, offering hope for a genetic test or even therapy for the rare fatal birth defect in which the brain fails to develop, according to a new ... > full story -
Tracking Down The Cause Of Mad Cow Disease: First Synthetic Prion Protein With An Anchor
October 10, 2008 — Researchers in Germany and Switzerland have developed a new general method for the synthesis of anchored proteins, such as GPI-anchored prions, which cause scrapie and mad cow ... > full story -
Outlook For Crohn's Disease Improves Thanks To New Therapies
October 10, 2008 — A study led by Mayo Clinic has found that infliximab (Remicade) administered alone (monotherapy) or in combination with azathioprine is a more effective treatment for patients with moderate to severe ... > full story -
An Accurate Picture Of Ice Loss In Greenland
October 10, 2008 — Researchers are developing a method for creating an accurate picture of Greenland’s shrinking ice cap. On the strength of this method, it is now estimated that Greenland is accountable for a ... > full story -
Bipolar Disorder In Children Appears Likely To Continue Into Young Adulthood
October 10, 2008 — About 44 percent of individuals who had bipolar disorder as children continue to have manic episodes as young adults, according to a report in the October issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one ... > full story
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Better Insights Needed Into Failure Mechanisms Of Hip Replacements
October 10, 2008 — If a hip prosthesis implanted to replace a worn-out joint itself fails, then what are the reasons? Until now this problem has been little understood: partly due to incomplete records, partly due to ... > full story -
Green Coffee-growing Practices Buffer Climate-change Impacts
October 10, 2008 — Chalk up another environmental benefit for shade-grown Latin American coffee: University of Michigan researchers say the technique will provide a buffer against the ravages of climate change in the ... > full story -
How Much Are You Really Exercising? Obese Women Know Better Than Normal Weight Women
October 10, 2008 — People struggling with obesity often underestimate how many calories they are actually consuming, which can hinder weight loss efforts. It should follow that the same person would overestimate the ... > full story -
Thinning Of Greenland Glacier Attributed To Ocean Warming Preceded By Atmospheric Changes
October 10, 2008 — The sudden thinning in 1997 of Jakobshavn Isbræ, one of Greenland's largest glaciers, was caused by subsurface ocean warming, according to research in the journal Nature Geoscience. The ... > full story -
Today's Healthcare
Children's Health
Public Health
Pharmacology
Attention Deficit Disorder
Infant's HealthFree Drug Samples Carry Risks For Children
October 10, 2008 — Free prescription drug samples distributed to children may be unsafe, according to a study by physicians from Cambridge Health Alliance and Hasbro Children's ... > full story
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Turning Cancer Friend Into Cancer Foe
October 10, 2008 — Scientists have created a peptide that binds to Bcl-2, a protein that protects cancer cells from programmed cell death, and converts it into a cancer cell killer. The research may lead to new cancer ... > full story -
Population Growth Puts Dent In Natural Resources
October 10, 2008 — It's a 500-pound gorilla that Robert Criss, Ph.D., professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, sees standing on the speaker's dais at ... > full story -
Growing Role Of Molecular Diagnostics
October 10, 2008 — Novel platform technologies and key advances in genomics are rapidly driving the development of molecular diagnostics, reports Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News. The payoff for successful ... > full story -
New International Building Codes Address Fire Safety And Evacuation Issues For Tall Structures
October 10, 2008 — Future buildings -- especially tall structures -- should be increasingly resistant to fire, more easily evacuated in emergencies, and safer overall thanks to 23 major and far-reaching building and ... > full story -
Premature Ejaculation? Not Your Fault: Gene Determines Rapidity Of Ejaculation In Men
October 10, 2008 — The rapidity of ejaculation in men is genetically determined. Neuropsychiatrists studied 89 Dutch men with premature ejaculation and will publish results in the Journal of Sexual ... > full story
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Post-term Pregnancies Risk Infant's Life And Health, Study Shows
October 9, 2008 — Infants born more than one week past their due dates have a higher risk of both impaired health and death, according to two new ... > full story -
Satellite Image Analysis Reveals South Ossetian Damage
October 9, 2008 — Satellite images captured before and after the Aug. 7-8 clash between Georgia, South Ossetian separatists and Russia reveal that 424 civilian structures near Tskhinvali were damaged by Aug. 19 -- ... > full story -
Major Study Of Opiate Use In Children's Hospitals Provides Simple Steps To Alleviate Harm
October 9, 2008 — Hospitalized kids with painful ailments from broken bones to cancer are often dosed with strong, painkilling drugs known as opiates. The medications block pain, but they can have nasty side effects. ... > full story -
New Sensor Could Help Avert Pipeline Failures
October 9, 2008 — Researchers have developed a prototype sensor that quickly detects very small amounts of hydrogen accumulation in coated pipeline steel. The new sensor could provide early warning of pipes that have ... > full story -
Car Or Pedestrian? How We Follow Objects With Our Eyes
October 9, 2008 — When an object moves fast, we follow it with our eyes: our brain correspondingly calculates the speed of the object and adapts our eye movement to it. This in itself is an enormous achievement, yet ... > full story
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Genetic Finding Implicates Innate Immune System In Major Cause Of Blindness
Scientists have identified one of the genes implicated in age-related macular degeneration, the most common cause of blindness in developed ... > full story
Mind & Brain
New Light On Link Between Snoring And Cognitive Deficits In Children
About two-thirds of children with sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) -- snoring or obstructive sleep apnea -- have some degree of cognitive deficit, but the severity of the cognitive deficit has been ... > full story
Living Well
How Fatty Foods Curb Hunger
Fatty foods may not be the healthiest diet choice, but those rich in unsaturated fats -- such as avocados, nuts and olive oil -- have been found to play a pivotal role in sending this important ... > full story
Biological & Earth Sciences
Plants & Animals
Daily Dose Of Ginkgo May Prevent Brain Cell Damage After Stroke, Mouse Studies Suggest
Working with genetically engineered mice, researchers at Johns Hopkins have shown that daily doses of a standardized extract from the leaves of the ginkgo tree can prevent or reduce brain damage ... > full story
Earth & Climate
Diversity Of Plant-eating Fishes May Be Key To Recovery Of Coral Reefs
A report scheduled to be published this week in the early edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that maintaining the proper balance of herbivorous fishes may ... > full story
Fossils & Ruins
Species Extinction By Asteroid A Rarity
New research argues in favor of a "sick earth" mechanism for most extinctions, rather than external event like an asteroid ... > full story
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When It Comes To Galaxies, Diversity Is Everywhere
A group of galaxies in our cosmic backyard has given astronomers clues about how stars form. A thorough survey using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has observed around 14 million stars in 69 ... > full story
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- Cosmic Eye Sheds Light On Early Galaxy Formation, Just Two Billion Years After Big Bang
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Baked Slug: New Method To Test Fireproofing Material
Researchers have developed a technique for measuring a key thermal property of fire-resistive materials at high temperatures. The measurement technique has already been adopted commercially and ... > full story
Computers & Math
Scientists Engineer Superconducting Thin Films
Scientists have successfully produced two-layer thin films where neither layer is superconducting on its own, but which exhibit a nanometer-thick region of superconductivity at their interface. The ... > full story
- New Material Could Act As Nanofridge For Microchips In Smaller And Faster Computers
- Computers 'Taught' To Search For Photos Based On Their Contents
- Customers' Fixation On Minimum Payments Drives Up Credit Card Bills
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