Archive: 05/07/2007
Technology monitors myriad molecules
A U.S. scientist has created a computer chip consisting of thousands of electrodes yielding molecules that bind to receptor sites.
May 07, 2007 |
4 / 5 (4) |
0
Warming oceans may diminish length of day
German scientists say a redistribution of ocean waters caused by global warming will likely affect the Earth's rotation and the length of days.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 07, 2007 |
3.1 / 5 (19) |
0
Black Death-type bacteria found in trash
Bacteria from the same family as the Black Death was recently found inside British trash cans that are only emptied once every two weeks.
May 07, 2007 |
3.8 / 5 (13) |
0
Troops in Iraq fight bugs, parasites
A parasitic disease transmitted by sand flies has become so common in Iraq that troops call it the "Baghdad boil."
May 07, 2007 |
4.1 / 5 (9) |
0
Angiography detects cerebral aneurysms
A Canadian study has found computerized tomography has a nearly 100 percent detection rate for acute ruptured cerebral aneurysms.
May 07, 2007 |
3 / 5 (2) |
0
Whooping crane population gets vital boost
A spate of recent egg hatchings at Maryland's Patuxent Wildlife Research Center is giving new hope for the dwindling global population of whooping cranes.
Biology /
May 07, 2007 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
Agent protects cells from lethal effects of radiation even if given after exposure
No drugs exist to protect the public from the high levels of radiation that could be released by a "dirty" bomb or nuclear explosion. Such excessive exposure typically causes death within weeks as the radiation ...
May 07, 2007 |
4.5 / 5 (15) |
0
Students Develop New Ways to Produce Renewable Fuels
There is a frenzied push in the United States to find alternative fuels and to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases. At North Carolina State University, even student researchers have caught the alternative fuels bug. And ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
May 07, 2007 |
4.2 / 5 (24) |
0
How to steer a moving cell
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine have developed new technology which, combined with proteomics – the large-scale study of the structure and function of proteins and their functions ...
May 07, 2007 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
Scientists: As rainfall changes, tropical plants may acclimate
Tropical plants may be more adaptable than commonly thought to changing rainfall patterns expected to accompany a warming climate, new research shows.
Biology /
May 07, 2007 |
1 / 5 (1) |
0
Tropical plants go with the flow ... of nitrogen
Tropical plants are able to adapt to environmental change by extracting nitrogen from a variety of sources, according to a new study that appears in the May 7 early online edition of The Proceedings of the National Academy of ...
Biology /
May 07, 2007 |
4.3 / 5 (8) |
0
Most children younger than 2 years watch TV despite warnings
Approximately 40 percent of three-month old children and about 90 percent of children age 24 months and under regularly watch television, DVDs or videos, according to a report in the May issue of Archives of Pediatrics & ...
May 07, 2007 |
4.8 / 5 (5) |
0
Scientists encourage cells to make a meal of Huntington's disease
Scientists have developed a novel strategy for tackling neurodegenerative diseases such as Huntington's disease: encouraging an individual's own cells to "eat" the malformed proteins that lead to the disease.
May 07, 2007 |
4.5 / 5 (4) |
0
Cancer cells 'reprogram' energy needs to grow and spread, study suggests
Studying a rare inherited syndrome, researchers at Johns Hopkins have found that cancer cells can reprogram themselves to turn down their own energy-making machinery and use less oxygen, and that these changes might help ...
May 07, 2007 |
2.8 / 5 (4) |
0
Childless women fare as well psychologically as mothers at mid-life
For one day each year, motherhood brings flowers, cards and Sunday brunches, but a new University of Florida study asks, how important is it for women’s happiness in midlife whether and when they had children?
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
May 07, 2007 |
4.4 / 5 (8) |
0
