Archive: 02/04/2008
Small bit of a CMOS chip holds 2-D through-the-walls radar imager
Two researchers from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering have created a send/receive chip that functions as an active array, sending out a matrix of 49 simultaneous ultrawideband radar probe beams and picking up the returned ...
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Smoking linked to sleep disturbances
New research shows that cigarette smokers are four times as likely as nonsmokers to report feeling unrested after a night’s sleep. The study, appearing in the February issue of CHEST, the peer-reviewed journal of the American ...
Feb 04, 2008 |
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Researchers use new method to probe recollections in memory-impaired patients
Neuroscientists continue to debate whether or not long-term memory always depends on a region of the brain called the medial temporal lobe, which contains the brain’s memory-processing center, the hippocampus. A new study ...
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For treating advanced Parkinson's, new research points to serotonin
For most people with Parkinson’s disease, the only relief from the tremors, rigidity and impaired movement associated with the progressive loss of their motor skills is a drug called L-DOPA. But as the disease progresses, ...
Feb 04, 2008 |
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Microneedles enhance drug administration through skin
In what is believed to be the first peer-reviewed study of its kind involving human subjects, researchers at the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy and the Georgia Institute of Technology have demonstrated ...
Feb 04, 2008 |
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Communing with nature less and less
From backyard gardening to mountain climbing, outdoor activities are on the wane as people around the world spend more leisure time online or in front of the tube, according to findings published this week in the Proceedings of ...
Feb 04, 2008 |
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Baboon dads have surprising influence on daughters' fitness
Polygamous baboon fathers get more grandchildren if they spend a little time with their children during their juvenile years, according to research directed by scientists at Duke and Princeton universities.
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Researchers make new discoveries on what does and doesn't affect immune system
Scientists know that a number of factors can affect the body's immune system: poor diet, certain steroids, chronic stress. Now researchers at Michigan State University have discovered that an appetite-controlling hormone ...
Feb 04, 2008 |
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Bacterium sequenced makes rare form of chlorophyll
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis and Arizona State University have sequenced the genome of a rare bacterium that harvests light energy by making an even rarer form of chlorophyll, chlorophyll d. Chlorophyll ...
Biology /
Feb 04, 2008 |
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Lower transmission increases dengue deaths
A pair of researchers has answered a puzzle about why efforts to lower the transmission of dengue virus in Thailand have not resulted in decreases in the severe, life-threatening, form of the infection. In fact, it seems ...
Feb 04, 2008 |
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Tipping elements in the Earth's climate system
Anthropogenic forcing could push the Earth’s climate system past critical thresholds, so that important components may “tip” into qualitatively different modes of operation. In the renowned magazine Proceedings of ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 04, 2008 |
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Worried about family or friends falling? New guideline identifies those most at risk
A new guideline developed by the American Academy of Neurology finds certain neurology patients are at a high risk of accidental falls and should be regularly screened to help prevent the high number of fall-related injuries ...
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2 genes found to play crucial role in cell survival
New research suggests that two recently discovered genes are critically important for controlling cell survival during embryonic development.
Feb 04, 2008 |
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Older women more likely to become, remain depressed than older men
Older women appear more susceptible to depression and more likely to stay depressed but less likely to die while depressed than older men, factors that contribute to the higher burden of depression among older women, according ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 04, 2008 |
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Breastfeeding now safer for infants of HIV-infected mothers
An antiretroviral drug already in widespread use in the developing world to prevent the transmission of HIV from infected mothers to their newborns during childbirth has also been found to substantially cut the risk of subsequent ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
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