Buyer beware: Stressed plants won't survive shipping
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Dec 03, 2007 |
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It's a common springtime disappointment: you buy beautiful, flourishing potted plants from your local retailer, only to watch the once-healthy flowers wither and die shortly after you place them on your patio ...
Report finds deforestation offers very little money compared to potential financial benefits
Dec 03, 2007 |
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Deforestation in tropical countries is often driven by the perverse economic reality that forests are worth more dead than alive. But a new study by an international consortium of researchers has found that the emerging market ...
Mapmaking for the masses
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 03, 2007 |
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Sites such as Wikimapia and OpenStreetMap are empowering citizens to create a global patchwork of geographic information while Google Earth is encouraging individuals to develop appplications using their own data.
Surgical glue
Dec 03, 2007 |
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In a few years’ time, instead of fiddling with needle and thread, sur-geons may simply use glue to connect implants to living tissue. They took their idea from mussels, which can stick to any surface, be it porous rock or ...
James Webb Space Telescope Component Undergoes Successful Design Review
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 03, 2007 |
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A preliminary design review has concluded and verified the integrated performance of all subsystems in the Optical Telescope Element on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.
New smartpen and paper to help teach blind college students
Dec 03, 2007 |
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Subjects like physics, calculus and biology are challenging for most students, but imagine tackling these topics without being able to see the graphs and figures used to teach them. A new smartpen and paper ...
'Mini transplant' patients' outcomes similar using related and unrelated donor cells
Dec 03, 2007 |
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People who undergo nonmyeloablative stem-cell transplants, or “mini transplants,” for leukemia, lymphoma and other blood cancers have comparable outcomes regardless of whether they receive tissue-matched stem cells from a ...
Planning Made Easier: Engineers Develop Software Solution for Complex Space Missions
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 03, 2007 |
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Sending an unmanned spacecraft to the outer fringes of the solar system requires extensive planning. At the University of Missouri, engineers have developed an efficient and highly sophisticated mathematical algorithm (implemented ...
Researchers find that a commonly found contaminant may harm nursing infants
Dec 03, 2007 |
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Scientists at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have shown that perchlorate—an industrial pollutant linked to thyroid ailments—is actively concentrated in breast milk. Their findings suggest that ...
Lymphatic vessel and lymph node function are restored with growth factor treatment
Dec 03, 2007 |
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The frequent spread of certain cancers to lymph nodes often necessitates surgery or radiation therapy that damages the lymphatic system and can cause lymphedema, a condition of localized fluid retention that often increases ...
Virtual factory on the tabletop
Dec 03, 2007 |
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Many industrial processes involve reactions in places that are difficult to see directly. A novel tabletop touch screen allows hidden sequences of events to be observed in progress. It can be operated intuitively ...
Brain abnormalities discovered in people who have trouble reading fast
Dec 03, 2007 |
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Some people who have problems reading quickly appear to have abnormalities in the white matter of their brains, according to research published in the December 4, 2007, issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the Americ ...
The European Columbus space laboratory set to reach ISS
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 03, 2007 |
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With NASA’s announcement today of the launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis on 6 December, ESA astronauts Hans Schlegel, from Germany, and Leopold Eyharts, from France, are set to carry ESA’s Columbus laboratory ...
CU-Boulder technology used to identify unexpected bacteria in cystic fibrosis patients
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Dec 03, 2007 |
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Molecular technology developed by a University of Colorado at Boulder professor to probe extreme life forms in undersea hydrothermal vents has been used to identify unexpected bacteria strains in the lung fluid of Denver ...
Mental illness and drug addiction may co-occur due to disturbance in part of the brain
Dec 03, 2007 |
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Why do mental illness and drug addiction so often go together? New research reveals that this type of dual diagnosis may stem from a common cause: developmental changes in the amygdala, a walnut-shaped part of the brain linked ...
