Archive: 07/05/2007
Study: Gamers spend less time on homework
Playing video games may mean students spend less time on homework or reading, two U.S. researchers found.
Jul 05, 2007 |
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For some, it's comfort vs. global warming
Swedish drivers have a dilemma: Drive Volvos and Saabs built in their own backyard or combat global warming by driving something more environmentally friendly.
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Researchers make discovery in molecular mechanics of phototropism
In a paper published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, scientists at the University of Missouri-Columbia reported molecular-level discoveries about the mechanisms of phototropism, the directional growth of plants toward ...
Jul 05, 2007 |
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Mom's Own Weight May Determine Baby's Size, Overall Health
Video games and snack food have taken the brunt of the blame for the rising childhood obesity epidemic.
Jul 05, 2007 |
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Engineered Blood Vessels Function like Native Tissue
Blood vessels that have been tissue-engineered from bone marrow adult stem cells may in the future serve as a patient's own source of new blood vessels following a coronary bypass or other procedures that require vessel replacement, ...
Jul 05, 2007 |
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Engineers Provide Insight Into the Dynamics of Molecular Self-Assembly
By studying how a layer of molecules grows into an ordered layer from the edge of a rectangular silicon wafer, engineers at North Carolina State University, working with researchers from the National Institute of Standards ...
Jul 05, 2007 |
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Cassini Finds Hydrocarbons on Saturn's Moon Hyperion
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has revealed for the first time surface details of Saturn's moon Hyperion, including cup-like craters filled with hydrocarbons that may indicate more widespread presence in our solar ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 05, 2007 |
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Internet users had a better handle on politics in 2004, study finds
As candidates and pundits look to the Internet in the 2008 presidential campaign, a University of Wisconsin-Madison study shows that Web users during the last election cycle had a more thorough understanding of presidential ...
Jul 05, 2007 |
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Study Shows Sonar Did Not Harm Fish
A new University of Maryland study in the July issue of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America reports that high powered sonar, like that used by U.S. Navy ships, did not harm test fish, including their ...
Jul 05, 2007 |
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Aggressive weed becoming a menace worse than kudzu, researcher says
And you thought kudzu was bad. A weed called cogongrass is rapidly spreading across the Southeast, and a University of Florida researcher says it’s already overtaken kudzu as Florida’s most obnoxious weed.
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Lizards' feisty flicking changed by motion noise
Animals that alter their movement-based signals to overcome visually ‘noisy’ environments could lead to a better understanding of vision systems and improve the capacity of ‘seeing’ machines, according to scientists from ...
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Economical and cleaner cars with lean-burn catalytic converter
Dutch researcher Karen Scholz has taken a careful look at the properties of a new type of catalytic converter found in cars. For this so-called NOx Storage Reduction (NSR) catalytic converter the fuel is alternately combusted ...
Jul 05, 2007 |
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Safer shipping by predicting sand wave behaviour
Dutch researcher Joris van den Berg has developed a mathematical model to predict the movement of sand waves.
Jul 05, 2007 |
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Friendly young people in particular drink under pressure
Men, extrovert people and those with positive expectations regarding alcohol use drink more than others, says Dutch psychologist Sander Bot. The amount a young person drinks is largely determined by how much others in the ...
Jul 05, 2007 |
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The Earth is smaller than assumed: German researchers
Although the discrepancy is not large, it is significant: Geodesists from the University of Bonn have remeasured the size of the Earth in a long lasting international cooperation project. The blue planet is ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 05, 2007 |
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