Researchers discover the structural alphabet of RNA
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A team of bioinformaticians at the Université de Montréal (UdeM) report in the March 6th edition of Nature the discovery of a structural alphabet that can be used to infer the 3D structure of ribonucleic acid (RNA) from s ...
Your brain on Krispy Kremes
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What makes you suddenly dart into the bakery when you spy chocolate- frosted donuts in the window, though you certainly hadn't planned on indulging? As you lick the frosting off your fingers, don't blame a lack of self-control.
Clean living could be making people sicker
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U.S. researchers say modern living appears to be leading to an increase in allergies and immune system diseases.
Researchers Create 'Invisibility Cloak' For Colloidal Nanoparticles
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
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Carnegie Mellon University’s Michael Bockstaller and Krzysztof Matyjaszewski have created a version of Harry Potter’s famed “invisibility cloak” for nanoparticles.
Rock: Electrons run through it
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If the Flintstones had electricity, their wires might have been made of rock. New results in Science Express show that a chunk of hematite can conduct electrons under certain chemical conditions. In addition, ...
Research suggests that children's memory may be more reliable than adults' in court cases
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Mar 06, 2008 |
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The U.S. legal system has long assumed that all testimony is not equally credible, that some witnesses are more reliable than others. In tough cases with child witnesses, it assumes adult witnesses to be more ...
Study finds that broccoli may help boost the aging immune system
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Eat your broccoli! That's the advice from UCLA researchers who have found that a chemical in broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables may hold a key to restoring the body's immunity, which declines as we ...
Quasicrystal mystery unraveled with computer simulation
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The method to the madness of quasicrystals has been a mystery to scientists. Quasicrystals are solids whose atoms aren't arranged in a repeating pattern, as they are in ordinary crystals. Yet they form intricate patterns ...
Nanoscale tool allows scientists to study membrane proteins one at a time
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
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In biology, as in construction, it’s all about having tools that fit the job. Researchers at Rockefeller University have now created a tiny tool, more than 10,000 times smaller than the diameter of a human ...
Smoking doesn't make you happy
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If you are planning to ignore the messages of national No Smoking Day on 12th March by claiming that smoking is one of the few pleasures left to you, then recent research from the Peninsula Medical School in the South West ...
How worms protect their chromosomes: Thereby hangs a surprising tail
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A team of scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies has discovered that the roundworm C. elegans constructs the protective tips of its chromosomes — known as telomeres — with a little more panache ...
Saturn's Moon Rhea Sports a Dusty Halo
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 06, 2008 |
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Who'd have guessed that Saturn has its own moon-sized vacuum cleaners, circling the ringed planet and sucking up electrons from the plasma at the orbit of the icy moons. Or that one of Saturn's moons has its ...
Refining the science of public opinion polling
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Nancy Mathiowetz has been busy tracking hundreds of public opinion surveys this year, detailing everything from pre-election polls to consumer confidence. She admits she is usually “drowning in data.”
Chemists identify compounds to lure nutria, a rat-like pest ravaging Gulf Coast wetlands
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A 10-pound rodent pest called nutria ravaging southern wetlands in the US, which has been especially damaging to the marshland ecology in the Mississippi Delta following Hurricanes Rita and Katrina, may have finally met its ...
ASUS Officially Launches Eee PC with Windows OS
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
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Amidst great expectations, ASUS today launched the ASUS Eee PC pre-installed with Microsoft Windows XP. This new offering of the popular Eee PC promises to let users enjoy an efficient online and work management ...
