'Chinese Lantern' Technique Helps Track Clouds at Saturn
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A new image of Saturn demonstrates a technique that creates a 'Chinese lantern' effect, showing Saturn's deep clouds silhouetted against the planet’s warm, glowing interior. Seen this way, Saturn's interior ...
UCLA Imaging Study Shows Changes in Brain Function Even 10 Years After Cancer Patients Undergo Chemotherapy
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Cancer survivors, take note. The mental fog and forgetfulness of "chemo brain" are no figment of your imagination.
New Zealand quake causes volcano concern
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Oct 05, 2006 |
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Scientists said they were unsure whether an earthquake centered at New Zealand's Mount Ruapehu volcano caused an eruption.
Emotionally ambivalent workers are more creative, innovative
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People who experience emotional ambivalence -- simultaneously feeling positive and negative emotions -- are more creative than those who feel just happy or sad, or lack emotion at all, according to a new study.
Images develop clinical applications for new DESI technology
Oct 05, 2006 |
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Purdue University researchers have created the first two-dimensional images of biological samples using a new mass spectrometry technique that furthers the technology's potential applications for the detection ...
Through Saturn's atmosphere
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Saturn is famous for its rings. Nevertheless, it does have other, characteristic if not unique, features – its atmosphere, for example. The prime aim of the Planetary Science Group at the University of the Basque ...
Novel Pathway Regulates Timing of Brain-Cell Development
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Brain formation involves the carefully timed production of different types of nerve cells by neural stem cells: neurons are produced first, then astrocytes. Making too much of one kind of cell and too little of another at ...
New technique boosts size of proteins that can be analyzed
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Imagine you had to break a secret code, but you could see only part of the message. That's the kind of frustration researchers face when trying to identify proteins and characterize how those proteins are modified in cells ...
Canada faces gas emissions dilemma
Oct 05, 2006 |
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The Canadian government has a perplexing problem: how to deal with environmentally polluting emissions from its highly profitable Alberta oil fields.
Study: Middle school students prefer soda
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A Harvard School of Public Health study has found that children at Massachusetts's middle schools buy soda more often than other items from vending machines.
Study: Nation's air-transportation system must become more 'agile'
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Researchers at Purdue University have created a mathematical simulation that could be used in a new national strategy to ease airport congestion and improve the overall transportation system.
Missouri to vote on stem cell issue
Oct 05, 2006 |
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Politicians across the United States will be watching Missouri voters next month to see how they vote on a referendum supporting stem cell research.
Little steps not enough for health, says researcher
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Walking is a popular form of exercise, but may not be enough to experience significant health benefits, a University of Alberta study shows.
NASA modifies launch vehicle contract
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 05, 2006 |
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NASA is extending a contract with ATK Thiokol of Brigham City, Utah, to continue developing the first stage for the Ares I crew launch vehicle.
Sematech Advances Feasibility of 193 nm Immersion Lithography for 45 nm
Oct 05, 2006 |
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Sematech researchers have successfully used 193 nm immersion technology (193i) at 1.3 numerical aperture (NA) with azimuthal polarization to pattern features narrower than 45 nm half-pitch in multiple orientations simultaneously. ...
