Archive: 06/07/2007
Search for life in space getting closer
Scientists in Britain say they are making remarkable advances in the search for life in other solar systems, though results are more than a decade off.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 07, 2007 |
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Aspirin may cut cancer deaths slightly
U.S. researchers say women who take aspirin may have a lower risk of dying from cancer and heart disease.
Jun 07, 2007 |
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Ferrari chocolate candy is recalled
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced the recall of Ferrari Chocolates because of undeclared peanuts and possible fungi contamination.
Jun 07, 2007 |
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Strengthening nanotube fluorescence
In a way, nanotubes are nature's smallest candles. These tiny tubes are constructed from carbon atoms and they are so small that it takes about 100,000 laid side-by-side to span the width of a single human ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jun 07, 2007 |
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Probing Question: Are there upper and lower limits to temperature?
Most people have heard absolute zero described as the lowest possible temperature, but what does that mean? Is it really the coldest cold, or just the lowest temperature that we can measure? Is there a corresponding ...
Jun 07, 2007 |
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NASA Updates Shuttle Target Launch Date for Hubble Mission
NASA managers officially are targeting Sept. 10, 2008, for the launch of the fifth and final space shuttle servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. During the 11-day flight, Atlantis' seven astronauts will repair ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 07, 2007 |
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NASA Selects IBM for Next-Generation Supercomputer Applications
On Wednesday, NASA and IBM announced the agency has selected an IBM System p575+ supercomputer for evaluating next-generation technology to meet the agency's future supercomputing requirements. Supercomputers play a critical ...
Jun 07, 2007 |
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Cannabinoids produced in the human body have an anti-inflammatory effect
Endocannabinoids seem to play an important role in regulating inflammation processes. Scientists from the University of Bonn have discovered this in experiments on mice. Their results will be published in the distinguished ...
Jun 07, 2007 |
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Menthol receptor also important in detecting cold temperatures
The ion channel activated by menthol also detects a wide range of cold temperatures and relays the information to the brain, according to a study in Nature by Yale School of Medicine, the University of California at San Fr ...
Jun 07, 2007 |
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Excitons play peek-a-boo on carbon nanotubes
In the quantum world, photons and electrons dance, bump and carry out transactions that govern everything we see in the world around us. In this week's issue of Science, French and U.S. scientists describe a new technique ...
Jun 07, 2007 |
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Goodbye wires... MIT experimentally demonstrates wireless power transfer
Imagine a future in which wireless power transfer is feasible: cell phones, household robots, mp3 players, laptop computers and other portable electronics capable of charging themselves without ever being ...
Jun 07, 2007 |
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High self-esteem may be culturally universal, international study shows
The notion that East Asians, Japanese in particular, are self-effacing and have low self-esteem compared to Americans may well describe the surface view of East Asian personality, but misses the picture revealed by recently ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 07, 2007 |
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Agonized pose tells of dinosaur death throes
The peculiar pose of many fossilized dinosaurs, with wide-open mouth, head thrown back and recurved tail, likely resulted from the agonized death throes typical of brain damage and asphyxiation, according ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jun 07, 2007 |
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Margin for profit in petrol prices no error, says economist
A University of Western Sydney economist says there is no doubt who benefits from any increase in petrol prices - especially when it comes to long weekends.
Jun 07, 2007 |
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'Have I been here before?'
"Have I been here before?" In today's fast-moving world of look-alike hotel rooms and comparable corridors, it can take a bit of thinking to answer this simple question. University of Bristol neuroscientists ...
Jun 07, 2007 |
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