A Mouse for Every Gene
Sep 07, 2006 |
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The University of California, Davis, will play a key role in a new worldwide effort to create a so-called "knockout" mutant mouse for each of the approximately 20,000 genes in the mouse genome. These mice can be used to study ...
Researchers use sound to search for gas, oil
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 07, 2006 |
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Just as doctors use ultrasound to image internal organs and unborn babies, MIT Earth Resources Laboratory researchers listen to the echoing language of rocks to map what's going on tens of thousands of feet below the Earth's ...
Seeing two figures in coordinated action helps brain pick out movements of one
Sep 07, 2006 |
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A new study by vision scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, finds that the human visual system is better able to discriminate the movements of a single person when his or her actions are coordinated ...
Silicon Valley cuts the Internet cord
Sep 07, 2006 |
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Some 2.4 million residents of California's Silicon Valley will have free broadband wireless Internet access when a new network goes on line. The system will be put together by Silicon Valley Metro Connect, a collaboration ...
SMART-1 impact flash and debris: Crash scene investigation
Sep 07, 2006 |
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Timing, location, detection of a flash and of ejected material, and a firework generated by the lunar impact of ESA's SMART-1, are the latest results gathered thanks to the ground observation campaign of this ...
Precision climate modeling forecast
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 07, 2006 |
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Climate modeling of tomorrow will feature precision and scale only imagined just a few years ago, say researchers David Erickson and John Drake of Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Computer Science and Mathematics Division.
El Nino may calm 2006 hurricane season
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 07, 2006 |
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Hurricane forecasters say a weather phenomenon called El Nino may make the rest of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season quieter than predicted.
Researchers identify key step in cocaine-induced heart enlargement, sudden death
Sep 07, 2006 |
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Cocaine, in concentrations commonly sold on the street, causes the abnormal buildup of primitive proteins in heart muscle – a process causing heart enlargement that can ultimately lead to sudden death, report researchers ...
Slow recovery from U.S. beef boycotts
Sep 07, 2006 |
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A Kansas State University study shows it may take a few years for the United States to recover from Japan's and South Korea's boycotts of U.S. beef.
