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Bad Sign For Global Warming: Thawing Permafrost Holds Vast Carbon Pool
Permafrost blanketing the northern
hemisphere contains more than
twice the amount of carbon in the
atmosphere, making it a
potentially mammoth contributor to
global climate change depending on
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Fatal Protein Interactions May Explain Neurological Diseases
Researchers have investigated how
proteins involved in
neurodegenerative diseases such as
Alzheimer's and Parkinson's
disease interact to form unique
complexes. Their findings explain
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Long-held Assumptions Of Flightless Bird Evolution Challenged By New Research
Large flightless birds of the
southern continents -- African
ostriches, Australian emus and
cassowaries, South American rheas
and the New Zealand kiwi -- do not
share a common flightless ancestor
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Encounter Of A Different Kind: Rosetta Observes Asteroid At Close Quarters
The European Space Agency's comet
chaser, Rosetta, has flown by a
small body in the main asteroid
belt, asteroid Steins, collecting
a wealth of information about this
rare type of minor Solar System
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Old Before Their Time? Aging Rate In Flies Twice As Fast In Wild Than In Laboratory
Conventional wisdom suggests that
stress accelerates aging -- but is
it really true? Evolutionary
studies of aging use short-lived
animals under laboratory
conditions -- constant temperature
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Glaciers In The Pyrenees Will Disappear In Less Than 50 Years, Study Finds
Much has been said about the
situation of the glaciers in
Greenland and Antarctica, but
little is known about those in the
high mountain areas of the Iberian
Peninsular. A Spanish research
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New Virtual Telescope Zooms In On Milky Way's Super-massive Black Hole
Astronomers have obtained the
closest views ever of what is
believed to be a super-massive
black hole at the center of the
Milky Way galaxy. The astronomers
linked together radio dishes in
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Theory Of Sun's Role In Formation Of Solar System Questioned
A strange mix of oxygen found in a
stony meteorite that exploded over
Pueblito de Allende, Mexico nearly
40 years ago has puzzled
scientists ever since. Small
flecks of minerals lodged in the
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Yale Researchers Find 'Junk DNA' May Have Triggered Key Evolutionary Changes In Human Thumb And Foot
Out of the 3 billion genetic
letters that spell out the human
genome, Yale scientists have found
a handful that may have
contributed to the evolutionary
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DNA Shows That Last Woolly Mammoths Had North American Roots
In a surprising reversal of
conventional wisdom, a DNA-based
study has revealed that the last
of the woolly mammoths--which
lived between 40,000 and 4,000
years ago--had roots that were
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- Thawing Permafrost Holds Vast Carbon Pool
- Fatal Protein Clue To Neurological Diseases
- Flightless Bird Evolution Theories Challenged
- Rosetta Observes Asteroid At Close Quarters
- Old Before Their Time? Wild Flies Age Faster
- Pyrenees Glaciers: Gone In Less Than 50 Years?
- Virtual Telescope Zooms In On Super Black Hole
- Sun's Role In Solar System Formation Questioned
- Did Junk DNA Trigger Changes In Human Limbs?
- Last Woolly Mammoths Had North American Roots
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Scientists Identify Genetic Link That May Neutralize HIV
September 7, 2008 — A genetic target may provide a significant new opportunity for vaccine or therapeutic development. Scientists have uncovered new evidence that strengthens the link between a host-cell gene called ... > full story -
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Artificial Meadows And Robot Spiders Reveal Secret Life Of Bees
September 7, 2008 — Many animals learn to avoid being eaten by predators. Now ecologists have discovered that bumblebees can even learn to outwit color-changing crab spiders. Bumblebees learn to avoid camouflaged ... > full story -
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Stroke PreventionDefibrillators Save Lives, Don't Diminish Quality Of Life, Researchers Find
September 7, 2008 — Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators reduce the risk of death from sudden cardiac arrest among patients with heart failure, and they do so without significantly altering a person's quality of ... > full story -
A Light Bulb And A Few Chemicals: Scientists Find A Way To Help Make New Reactions
September 7, 2008 — Scientists have discovered a way of stimulating organic molecules that they expect will prompt researchers to create materials from new kinds of chemical reactions. The method of catalysis, when ... > full story -
Sexologists Can Infer A Woman's History of Orgasms By The Way She Walks
September 7, 2008 — A new study found that trained sexologists could infer a woman's history of vaginal orgasm by observing the way she ... > full story
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Cardiac Cell Transplant Studies Show Promise In Cardiac Tissue Repair
September 7, 2008 — Two studies involving cardiac cell transplantation have shown an evolving role for bone marrow cells in cardiac cell therapy. The implantation of heart muscle cells and subsequent restoration of ... > full story -
Major Flooding Risk Could Span Decades After Chinese Earthquake
September 7, 2008 — Up to 20 million people, thousands of whom are already displaced from their homes following the devastating Chinese earthquake, are at increased risk from flooding and major power shortages in the ... > full story -
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Child DevelopmentWhat A Sleep Study Can Reveal About Fibromyalgia
September 7, 2008 — Research engineers and sleep medicine specialists from two Michigan universities have joined technical and clinical hands to put innovative technologies to work in the sleep ... > full story -
Plant-parasitic Nematode Genome Sequenced
September 7, 2008 — The annotated genome of one of the most destructive nematodes -- Meloidogyne incognita -- the southern root-knot nematode, has just been published in the journal Nature ... > full story -
Chemobrain Treatment? Potential Remedy For The 'Mental Fog' In Cancer Patients
September 7, 2008 — Cancer patients have complained for years about the mental fog known as chemobrain. Now in animal studies, researchers have discovered that injections of N-acetyl cysteine, an antioxidant, can ... > full story
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Exercise Reduces Damage After Therapeutic Irradiation To The Brain
September 7, 2008 — Researchers has shown for the first time that exercise helps restore stem cell growth and improves behavior in young mice that suffered damage to the brain induced by a clinically relevant dose of ... > full story -
A Virtuous Cycle: Safety In Numbers For Bicycle Riders
September 7, 2008 — It seems paradoxical but the more people ride bicycles on our city streets, the less likely they are to be injured in traffic accidents. International research reveals that as cycling participation ... > full story -
Add-On Therapy Improves Depressive Symptoms In Bipolar Disorder
September 7, 2008 — Lingering depression is a serious and common problem in bipolar disorder, and does not resolve well with existing treatments. Because individuals with both depression and bipolar disorder experience ... > full story -
Oxidative Stress: Mechanism Of Cell Death Clarified
September 7, 2008 — Scientists have decrypted the molecular mechanism through which the death of cells is caused by oxidative stress. This knowledge opens novel perspectives to systematically explore the benefit of ... > full story -
Social Psychology Can Be Used To Understand Nuclear Restraint
September 7, 2008 — Social psychology is the study of how people and groups interact. A new study shows how social psychology can help us better understand the puzzle of nuclear restraint and uses the case of Japan to ... > full story
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Chandelier Cells Unveil Human Cognition
September 6, 2008 — What is it that distinguishes humans from other mammals? The answer to this question lies in the neocortex -- the part of the brain responsible for sensory perceptions, conscious thought and ... > full story -
How New Helium Ion Microscope Measures Up
September 6, 2008 — Researchers are probing the newest microscope technology to further improve measurement accuracy at the nanoscale -- a critical capability for setting standards and improving production in the ... > full story -
Arteries From Distinct Regions Of The Body Have Unique Immune Functions
September 6, 2008 — Arteries play an active role in the immune system by sensing infection and injury. They collect information about invaders through dendritic cells embedded in their walls. Arteries supplying blood to ... > full story -
Technology Users Are Failing To Take Adequate Steps To Protect Their Digital Privacy
September 6, 2008 — Technology users are failing to take adequate steps to protect their privacy in digital society. In the face of technology that will soon be able not only to track an individual’s movements but ... > full story -
Action As A Goal May Be Too Broad, New Research Suggests
September 6, 2008 — A series of experiments suggest that society's emphasis on action over inaction may lead to unforeseen consequences. The findings could help understand how common words used in everyday life may ... > full story
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Unsuccessful Drug Against Anxiety Opens A Novel Gateway For The Treatment Of Cancer
September 6, 2008 — An unsatisfying drug for anxiety reveals to scientists a promising novel anti-cancer drug target. Cancer cells have multiple ways to avoid apoptosis, programmed cell death the means by which ... > full story -
Giant Furnace Opens To Reveal 'Perfect' LSST Mirror Blank
September 6, 2008 — The single-piece primary and tertiary mirror blank cast for the LSST is "perfect", say project astronomers and engineers. The LSST, or Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, a large survey telescope being ... > full story -
Virology: How Does Herpes Simplex Virus Cause Inflammation Of The Brain?
September 6, 2008 — Worldwide, about 80% of young adults are infected with herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1). The most common symptom of infection is a cold sore, but in some individuals the virus can also cause ... > full story -
Disruption-free Videos
September 6, 2008 — Standardized video coding techniques still have their snags – digitally transmitted images are not always disruption-free. An extension of the H.264/AVC coding format allows to protect the most ... > full story -
Should Nurses Replace GPs As Frontline Providers Of Primary Care?
September 6, 2008 — Should nurses be the frontline providers of primary care, taking the place of general practitioners as the first point of patient contact? Two experts debate the issue. Nurses can deliver as high ... > full story
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Liver Disease
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Leukemia
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Chronic IllnessLiving Donor Liver Transplants May Drastically Decrease Mortality From Liver Failure
September 6, 2008 — Patients with acute liver failure could be saved by a transplant from a living donor, according to a new study. The recent experience of US patients shows that recipient mortality rates and donor ... > full story -
Honest Lovers? Fallow Buck Groans Reveal Their Status And Size During The Rut
September 6, 2008 — Researchers have show for the first time that sexually selected vocalizations can signal social dominance in mammals other than primates, and reveal that the independent acoustic components -- ... > full story -
Nutritional Research Vindicates Diet Programs
September 6, 2008 — Popular slimming programs do result in reduced energy intake while providing enough nutrients. A new scientific analysis provides comprehensive dietary data about Slim Fast, Atkins, Weight Watchers ... > full story -
Digitizing Archives From The 17th Century
September 6, 2008 — A researcher on a short trip to a foreign country, with little money, but a digital camera in hand has devised a novel approach to digitizing foreign archives that could speed up ... > full story -
Infant Abductions Increase In Private And Public Places
September 6, 2008 — A new study, based on 23 years of data collection, showed that while the number of abductions in hospital settings dramatically declined, those from private homes and public places have increased in ... > full story
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Massive Cancer Gene Search Finds Potential New Targets In Brain Tumors
September 5, 2008 — An array of broken, missing and overactive genes have been identified in a genetic survey of glioblastoma, the most common and deadly form of adult brain cancer, report scientists. The large-scale ... > full story -
MIT Probe Could Aid Quantum Computing
September 5, 2008 — MIT researchers may have found a way to overcome a key barrier to the advent of super-fast quantum computers, which could be powerful tools for applications such as code ... > full story -
How To Spot A Heart Attack Soon After It Occurs
September 5, 2008 — The sooner an individual who has had a heart attack is treated, the better their chance of survival and the less permanent damage is done to their heart. A recent paper details a new method for early ... > full story -
Ebola Cell-invasion Strategy Uncovered
September 5, 2008 — 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 ... > full story -
What Is A Gene? Media Define the Concept In Many Different Ways
September 5, 2008 — Even scientists define ‘a gene’ in different ways, so it comes as little surprise that the media also have various ways of framing the concept of a gene, according to a new ... > full story
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Link Between Obesity, Type 2 Diabetes And Neurodegeneration Found
September 5, 2008 — Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus can contribute to mild neurodegeneration with features common with Alzheimer's disease -- the first study to show that obesity can cause ... > full story -
Designer Wine? Characterization Of Grapevine Transposons May Aid Development Of New Grape Varieties
September 5, 2008 — A new study presents a genome-wide characterization of grapevine transposons. This work shows that transposons have captured and amplified gene sequences in grapevines, which could have had an impact ... > full story -
Low-birth-weight Children Should Have Their Blood Pressure Checked, Researchers Find
September 5, 2008 — Blood pressure in low-birth-weight children younger than 3 years of age not only can be measured but should be, researchers have ... > full story -
Scientists Peel Away Mystery Behind Gold's Catalytic Prowess
September 5, 2008 — Using the world's most powerful microscopes for chemical analysis, scientists have pinpointed where the conversion of carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide occurs when gold is supported on iron oxide. CO ... > full story -
Hallucinations In The Flash Of An Eye
September 5, 2008 — Specific brain regions show increased activity during hallucinations. Researchers introduce a new experimental approach to studying hallucinations as they ... > full story
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Cardiac Cell Transplant Studies Show Promise In Cardiac Tissue Repair
Two studies involving cardiac cell transplantation have shown an evolving role for bone marrow cells in cardiac cell therapy. The implantation of heart muscle cells and subsequent restoration of ... > full story
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What A Sleep Study Can Reveal About Fibromyalgia
Research engineers and sleep medicine specialists from two Michigan universities have joined technical and clinical hands to put innovative technologies to work in the sleep ... > full story
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A Virtuous Cycle: Safety In Numbers For Bicycle Riders
It seems paradoxical but the more people ride bicycles on our city streets, the less likely they are to be injured in traffic accidents. International research reveals that as cycling participation ... > full story
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- Nutritional Research Vindicates Diet Programs
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Plant-parasitic Nematode Genome Sequenced
The annotated genome of one of the most destructive nematodes -- Meloidogyne incognita -- the southern root-knot nematode, has just been published in the journal Nature ... > full story
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Major Flooding Risk Could Span Decades After Chinese Earthquake
Up to 20 million people, thousands of whom are already displaced from their homes following the devastating Chinese earthquake, are at increased risk from flooding and major power shortages in the ... > full story
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Digitizing Archives From The 17th Century
A researcher on a short trip to a foreign country, with little money, but a digital camera in hand has devised a novel approach to digitizing foreign archives that could speed up ... > full story
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A Fine-tooth Comb To Measure The Accelerating Universe
Astronomical instruments needed to answer crucial questions, such as the search for Earth-like planets or the way the Universe expands, have come a step closer with the first demonstration at the ... > full story
Matter & Energy
How New Helium Ion Microscope Measures Up
Researchers are probing the newest microscope technology to further improve measurement accuracy at the nanoscale -- a critical capability for setting standards and improving production in the ... > full story
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Disruption-free Videos
Standardized video coding techniques still have their snags – digitally transmitted images are not always disruption-free. An extension of the H.264/AVC coding format allows to protect the most ... > full story
