Amphibian Froth: Unusual linkage pattern in a blue protein found in the foam nests of tropical frogs
Oct 02, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An unusual blue protein called ranasmurfin and found in the foam nests of a Malaysian tree frog has aroused the interest of a team of British, Brazilian, and Malaysian researchers led by Alan Cooper at the ...
Rethinking who should be considered 'essential' during a pandemic flu outbreak
Oct 02, 2008 |
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Not only are doctors, nurses, and firefighters essential during a severe pandemic influenza outbreak. So, too, are truck drivers, communications personnel, and utility workers. That's the conclusion of a Johns Hopkins University ...
Hubble enters safe mode
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 02, 2008 |
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At approximately 02:00 CEST on Sunday, 28 September, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope automatically entered safe mode when errors were detected in the Control Unit/Science Data Formatter-Side A.
Topsoil's limited turnover: A crisis in time
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 02, 2008 |
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Topsoil does not last forever. Records show that topsoil erosion, accelerated by human civilization and conventional agricultural practices, has outpaced long-term soil production. Earth's continents are losing prime agricultural ...
The role of stem cells in renewing the cornea
Oct 02, 2008 |
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A group of researchers in Switzerland has published a study appearing in the Oct 1 advance online edition of the Journal Nature that shows how the cornea uses stem cells to repair itself.
Don't stress! Bacterial crisis command center revealed
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Oct 02, 2008 |
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A bacteria cell's 'crisis command centre' has been observed for the first time swinging into action to protect the cell from external stress and danger, according to new research out today (3 October) in Science.
Many receptor models used in drug design may not be useful after all
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It may very well be that models used for the design of new drugs have to be regarded as impractical. This is the sobering though important conclusion of the work of two Leiden University scientists published in Science this w ...
This is your brain on politics
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 02, 2008 |
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U.S. presidential candidates have been stumping for nearly two years with their every move being analyzed and reported ad nauseum. Logically, voters should be able to tap into lots of information when they make their decisions ...
Researchers develop novel anti-tumor vaccine
Oct 02, 2008 |
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A novel anti-tumor vaccine for neuroblastoma and melanoma developed by scientists and clinicians at Children's National Medical Center in collaboration with investigators from the University of Iowa is showing significant impact ...
An a-maize-ing path out of poverty
Oct 02, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Across Tanzania and elsewhere in Africa, processing the corn harvest is labor intensive: Families and friends gather to spend a day or two filling bags with the dried cobs, beating then to ...
Emissions rising faster this decade than last
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The latest figures on the global carbon budget to be released in Washington and Paris indicate a four-fold increase in growth rate of human-generated carbon dioxide emissions since 2000.
New catheter-less technique may ease the pain and discomfort of prostate cancer recovery
Oct 02, 2008 |
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To ease the pain of recovery following prostate cancer surgery, physician-scientists have developed an innovative and patient-friendly approach that eliminates the use of a penile urinary catheter. The new patentable technique, ...
Probing Question: Could your kitchen counters be radioactive?
Oct 02, 2008 |
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Verde Butterfly. Black Galaxy. Kashmir Gold. If you’ve remodeled your kitchen in the last decade, chances are you encountered one of the 1,600 varieties of granite imported into the United States from 64 different ...
Car or pedestrian -- How we can follow objects with our eyes
Oct 02, 2008 |
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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 our brain can do even more ...
Reproducing early and often is the key to rapid evolution in plants
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Yale researchers have harnessed the power of 21st century computing to confirm an idea first proposed in 1916 — that plants with rapid reproductive cycles evolve faster. Their findings appear in the October 3rd edition of ...
