Multifunctional Nanoparticles Image and Treat Brain Tumors
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Dec 04, 2006 |
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Combining two promising approaches to diagnosing and treating cancer, a multidisciplinary research team at the University of Michigan has created a targeted multifunctional polymer nanoparticle that successfully images and ...
Lunar Leonid Strikes
Dec 04, 2006 |
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Meteoroids are smashing into the Moon a lot more often than anyone expected. That's the tentative conclusion of Bill Cooke, head of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office, after his team observed two Leonids hitting ...
Vanishing beetle horns have surprise function
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Dec 04, 2006 |
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The function of horned beetles' wild protrusions has been a matter of some consternation for biologists. Digging seemed plausible; combat and mate selection, more likely. Even Charles Darwin once weighed in ...
Carbon nanomaterials may disperse more widely in waterways
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Dec 04, 2006 |
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Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) released to the environment in the coming era of industrial-scale production could spread through lakes, rivers and other waterways more widely than previously anticipated, scientists are reporting ...
NASA Unveils Global Exploration Strategy and Lunar Architecture
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 04, 2006 |
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NASA on Monday unveiled the initial elements of the Global Exploration Strategy and a proposed U.S. lunar architecture, two critical tools for achieving the nation's vision of returning humans to the moon.
Transplanted brain cells hold promise for Parkinson's disease
Dec 04, 2006 |
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Transplanted neural stem cells hold promise for reducing the destruction of dopaminergic cells that occurs in Parkinson's disease and for replacing cells lost to the disease, scientists say.
Python shrine found in Botswana
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Dec 04, 2006 |
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A Norway-based archaeologist has found a cave in Botswana that appears to be a 70,000-year-old religious shrine.
Scientists uncover speedometer for crystal growth controlled by biomolecule properties
Dec 04, 2006 |
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From gemstones to transistors, crystals are everywhere in our daily lives. Crystals also make up the mineralized skeletons of all organisms, including seashells and our own teeth and bones. Perhaps the most widely used biominerals ...
Mapping the wake of a pending quake
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 04, 2006 |
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Research into ancient earthquakes by scientists at USC and Caltech shows that within the next few decades another tsunami from another giant earthquake is likely to flood densely populated sections of western coastal Sumatra, ...
New Clues to How Sex Evolves
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Dec 04, 2006 |
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Sex is a boon to evolution; it allows genetic material from parents to recombine, giving rise to a unique new genome. But how did sex itself evolve? Researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley ...
Why do some queen bees eat their worker bee's eggs?
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Dec 04, 2006 |
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Worker bees, wasps, and ants are often considered neuter. But in many species they are females with ovaries, who although unable to mate, can lay unfertilized eggs which turn into males if reared. For some ...
Molecular 'marker' on stem cells aids research, perhaps therapies
Dec 04, 2006 |
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A sugar molecule present on embryonic stem cells also has been found on the surface of a type of adult stem cell, a discovery that may help researchers isolate and purify adult stem cells for use in therapies aimed at bone ...
Ray Charles really did have that swing
Dec 04, 2006 |
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Ray Charles was really good at snapping, said musical acoustician Kenneth Lindsay of Southern Oregon University in Ashland. Charles's snaps that open "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" are timed so well ...
Scientists develop a new way to target Alzheimer's disease
Dec 04, 2006 |
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The pathological embrace between two proteins plays a key role in the development of Alzheimer's disease by triggering the formation of neuron-killing plaques of amyloid beta protein. Now a group of scientists at NYU School ...
Global maps created to show malaria hotspots
Dec 04, 2006 |
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Global maps are being created that will define, for the first time in over 40 years, the distribution of malaria risk worldwide. The atlas will help those involved in malaria control.
