What gives us fingertip dexterity?
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Quickly moving your fingertips to tap or press a surface is essential for everyday life to, say, pick up small objects, use a BlackBerry or an iPhone. But researchers at the University of Southern California ...
Mummy lice found in Peru may give new clues about human migration
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Feb 07, 2008 |
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Lice from 1,000-year-old mummies in Peru may unravel important clues about a different sort of passage: the migration patterns of America’s earliest humans, a new University of Florida study suggests.
Accelerometer backpacks aid study of gliding behavior in the 'flying' lemur
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The "flying" lemur of Malaysia is the champion of all gliding mammals, able to drop from the forest canopy, glide more than the length of two football fields, execute 90-degree turns and then alight gently ...
Pure mathematics behind the mechanics
Feb 07, 2008 |
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Dutch researcher Peter Hochs has discovered that the same effects can be observed in quantum and classical mechanics, if quantisation is used.
EPIC: Building the Perfect Chip
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Three years ago a team from Bell Labs took on a very daunting challenge – put an optical networking system on a commercially manufactured silicon chip, load it with a smorgasbord of sophisticated opto-electronic devices in ...
Researcher leads international effort to create 'proteinpedia'
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A researcher at the Johns Hopkins Institute of Genetic Medicine has led the effort to compile to date the largest free resource of experimental information about human proteins. Reporting in the February issue of Nature Bi ...
Discrimination against blacks linked to dehumanization, study finds
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
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Crude historical depictions of African Americans as ape-like may have disappeared from mainstream U.S. culture, but research presented in a new paper by psychologists at Stanford, Pennsylvania State University and the University ...
An Illuminating Great Lakes Tale: The Alewife and the Opossum Shrimp
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In recent decades, Lake Ontario has become increasingly clear. The grazing of invasive zebra mussels and the reduction of inputs of compounds such as phosphorus have combined to improve its water clarity. Does an increase ...
Probing Question: What is a red tide?
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Although its name sounds like a low-budget horror movie, you won't find "Red Tide" at a theater near you. To take in this natural phenomenon, you'll have to venture to the ocean, because red tide — or more ...
Sleep duration may play important role in childhood obesity
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Less sleep can increase a child’s risk of being overweight or obese, according to a study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Their analysis of epidemiological studies found that with each ...
How water shrews find prey in the dark
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Shrews are tiny mammals that have been widely characterized as simple and primitive. This traditional view is challenged by a new study of the hunting methods of an aquatic member of the species, the water ...
Corporate social responsibility: less profit, more value
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Companies that operate in a socially responsible manner 'pay' for this with a loss in financial profit. Yet at the same time, socially responsible business practices can enhance a company's value. Dutch economist Lammertjan ...
'Good bacteria' in women give clues for slowing HIV transmission
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Feb 07, 2008 |
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Beneficial bacteria found in healthy women help to reduce the amount of vaginal HIV among HIV-infected women and make it more difficult for the virus to spread, boosting the possibility that “good bacteria” might someday ...
Rutgers center sparks 'liquid bandage,' a new frontline wound treatment
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The Center for Military Biomaterials Research (CeMBR), part of the New Jersey Center for Biomaterials at Rutgers University, has enabled the development of a breakthrough spray-on dressing for injuries. The trademarked GelSpray ...
Coral reefs may be protected by natural ocean thermostat
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 07, 2008 |
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Natural processes may prevent oceans from warming beyond a certain point, helping protect some coral reefs from the impacts of climate change, new research finds. The study, by scientists at the National Center ...
