Continents loss to oceans boosts staying power
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 01, 2008 |
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New research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science finds that the geological staying power of continents comes partly from their losing battle with the Earth's oceans over magnesium. Continents lose more t ...
Running out of treatments: The problem superbugs resistant to everything
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Apr 01, 2008 |
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Doctors are running out of treatments for today’s trauma victims and critically ill patients because of infections due to drug resistant microbes – even after resorting to using medicines thrown out 20 years ago because of ...
Climate change, human hunting combine to drive the woolly mammoth extinct
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Apr 01, 2008 |
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Does the human species have mammoth blood on its hands" Scientists have long debated the relative importance of hunting by our ancestors and change in global climate in consigning the mammoth to the history ...
Feed that cold! New study shows that lower food intake has a negative effect on immune system
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Apr 01, 2008 |
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Researchers studying deer mice have discovered evidence to support what mothers everywhere have long suspected: the immune system needs food to function properly. In an article titled “Food Restriction Compromises ...
The lean gene
Apr 01, 2008 |
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Your friend can eat whatever she wants and still fit into her prom dress, but you gain five pounds if you just look at that chocolate cake. Before you sign up for Weight Watchers and that gym membership, though, you may want ...
Geologist decries floodplain development
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 01, 2008 |
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Midwesterners have to be wondering: Will April be the cruelest month? Patterns in the Midwest this spring are eerily reminiscent of 1993 and 1994, back-to-back years of serious flooding, with the Great Flood ...
Nano-Softball Made of DNA
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Apr 01, 2008 |
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For quite some time, DNA, the stuff our genes are made of, has also been considered the building material of choice for nanoscale objects. A team led by Günter von Kiedrowski at the Ruhr University in Bochum has now made ...
The bombardier beetle, power venom, and spray technologies
Apr 01, 2008 |
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The bombardier beetle is inspiring designers of engines, drug-delivery devices and fire extinguishers to improve spray technologies, writes Andy McIntosh, from Leeds University, and Novid Beheshti, of Swedish Biomimetics ...
Humans have more distinctive hearing than animals, study shows
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Apr 01, 2008 |
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Do humans hear better than animals? It is known that various species of land and water-based living creatures are capable of hearing some lower and higher frequencies than humans are capable of detecting. However, scientists ...
Fear of messing up may cause whites to avoid blacks
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 01, 2008 |
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Democratic consultant Donna Brazile brought home America’s reluctance to talk openly about race in a New York Times article that preceded the Barack Obama speech that now has the whole nation buzzing. In essence, she said ...
Study finds that damaged land can restore itself
Apr 01, 2008 |
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There is widespread interest in restoring land damaged by gravel-sand mining, but the high costs of such projects can be off-putting. A new study published in Restoration Ecology offers remarkable new evidence that these ...
New study finds glamorization of drugs in rap music jumped dramatically over 2 decades
Apr 01, 2008 |
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A new study finds that references to illegal drug use in rap music jumped sixfold in the two decades since 1979, the year Sugar Hill Gang's "Rapper's Delight" hit the charts and introduced to a mainstream audience a music ...
Researchers perform multi-century
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 01, 2008 |
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Using state-of-the-art supercomputers, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory climate scientists have performed a 400-year high-resolution global ocean-atmosphere simulation with results that are more similar ...
The untrained eye: Confusing sexual interest with friendliness
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 01, 2008 |
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New research from Indiana University and Yale suggests that college-age men confuse friendly non-verbal cues with cues for sexual interest because the men have a less discerning eye than women -- but their female peers aren't ...
Ready to go: mobile terahertz devices
Apr 01, 2008 |
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Terahertz waves, which until now have barely found their way out of the laboratory, could soon be in use as a versatile tool. Researchers have mobilized the transmitting and receiving devices so that they can be used anywhere ...
