Archive: 12/02/2008
Too much commitment may be unhealthy for relationships
Romantic relationships establish special bonds between partners. Oftentimes, passionate rapport leads to permanent partnerships, and ultimately, the start of families.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
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Engineers: Wireless crib monitor keeps tabs on baby's breathing
Radar — the technology that tracks enemy bombers and hurricanes — is now being employed to detect another danger: when babies stop breathing.
Dec 02, 2008 |
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Vaccine and drug research aimed at ticks and mosquitoes to prevent disease transmission
Most successful vaccines and drugs rely on protecting humans or animals by blocking certain bacteria from growing in their systems. But, a new theory actually hopes to take stopping infectious diseases such as West Nile ...
Dec 02, 2008 |
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Analysis supports use of surgery to treat medication-resistant epilepsy
Persons with temporal lobe epilepsy who do not respond to medication could receive a substantial gain in life expectancy and quality of life by undergoing surgery of the temporal lobe part of the brain, according to an analysis ...
Dec 02, 2008 |
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Researchers develop technique to count messages made by single genes
In a study in the advance online edition of Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, researchers from Albert Einstein College of Medicine describe a technique for looking more precisely at a fundamental step of a cell's ...
Biology /
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Magnetic nanotags allow sensitive detection of cancer biomarkers
(PhysOrg.com) -- The detection of cancer-associated proteins, or biomarkers, in blood samples is a potentially powerful tool for early diagnosis of cancer and monitoring of cancer treatment. A team led by ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Dec 02, 2008 |
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Geochemical processes go high-tech in 3-D, interactive project
(PhysOrg.com) -- They occur constantly, are largely invisible but affect everything from energy supplies and soil erosion to water pollution.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
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Researchers Suggest New Models for Music Education
(PhysOrg.com) -- Preteens and teenagers today are involved in music in ways that never could have been imagined 50 years ago. Yet America’s secondary school music education programs remain strikingly similar to those of five ...
Dec 02, 2008 |
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NASA Finishes Listening for Phoenix Mars Lander
(PhysOrg.com) -- After nearly a month of daily checks to determine whether Martian NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander would be able to communicate again, the agency has stopped using its Mars orbiters to hail the ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 02, 2008 |
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Plastic as a conductor
(PhysOrg.com) -- Plastic that conducts electricity and metal that weighs no more than a feather? It sounds like an upside-down world. Yet researchers have succeeded in making plastics conductive and cutting ...
Dec 02, 2008 |
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Toys made of liquid wood
(PhysOrg.com) -- Most plastics are based on petroleum. A bio-plastic that consists of one hundred percent renewable raw materials helps to conserve this resource. Researchers have now optimized the plastic ...
Dec 02, 2008 |
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High tunnels yield healthier, prettier produce and longer growing seasons
(PhysOrg.com) -- Fred Forsburg's tomatoes are perfect -- tough to do in a certified organic operation where no pesticides, herbicides or fungicides are used. The Livonia farmer's secret: growing tomatoes in ...
Biology /
Dec 02, 2008 |
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Frozen assets: Who gets the embryos when a couple splits?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Divorcing couples have always fought over property, income and custody of children. But technology has added an even more contentious item to the list: the frozen embryos the couple created ...
Dec 02, 2008 |
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Fiber 'Wrap' Preserves Tissue and Encourages Blood Vessels to Open
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at The University of Texas at Dallas have filed a patent disclosure on a medical device that looks like a blue elastic bandage and acts like a wonder-cloth that helps preserve transplant ...
Dec 02, 2008 |
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Researchers Use Sun Cycle to Predict Rainfall Fluctuations
(PhysOrg.com) -- The sun’s magnetic field may have a significant impact on weather and climatic parameters in Australia and other countries in the northern and southern hemispheres.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 02, 2008 |
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