Study shows how fatty foods curb hunger
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Fatty foods may not be the healthiest diet choice, but those rich in unsaturated fats – such as avocados, nuts and olive oil – have been found to play a pivotal role in sending this important message to your brain: stop eating, ...
Electricity supply: Sustainable sources remain expensive
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Ambitious governments' environmental objectives for the electricity sector are only possible at a high price. This is one of the conclusions of researcher ir. Hans Rödel, who is to receive his PhD at TU Delft on Thursday ...
Study: Even occasional smoking can impair arteries
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Even occasional cigarette smoking can impair the functioning of your arteries, according to a new University of Georgia study that used ultrasound to measure how the arteries of young, healthy adults respond to changes in ...
New gene that helps plants beat the heat
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Michigan State University plant scientists have discovered another piece of the genetic puzzle that controls how plants respond to high temperatures. That may allow plant breeders to create new varieties of crops that flourish ...
Atomic-resolution views suggest function of enzyme that regulates light-detecting signals in eye
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An atomic-resolution view of an enzyme found only in the eye has given researchers at the University of Washington (UW) clues about how this enzyme, essential to vision, is activated. The enzyme, phosphodiesterase ...
Egg whites solve the 3-D problem
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The real world is three-dimensional. That's true even in the laboratory, where scientists have to grow cells to study how they develop and what happens when their growth is abnormal.
MESSENGER Returns Images from Oct. 6 Mercury Fly-By
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 07, 2008 |
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MESSENGER is the first mission sent to orbit the planet closest to the sun. On Oct. 6, 2008, at roughly 4:40 a.m. ET, MESSENGER flew by Mercury for the second time this year. During the encounter, the probe ...
Psychologists create fake proof personality test
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
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Psychologists from the University of Toronto have developed a personality inventory that can predict who will excel in academic and creative domains, even when respondents are trying hard to fake their answers.
Killing 'angry' immune cells in fat could fight diabetes
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By killing off "angry" immune cells that take up residence in obese fat and muscle tissue, researchers have shown that they can rapidly reverse insulin resistance in obese mice. The findings reported in the October Cell Me ...
Pneumococcal vaccine associated with 50 percent lower risk of heart attacks
Medicine & Health / Medications
Oct 07, 2008 |
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Pneumococcal (pneumonia) vaccination was associated with a 50% lower risk of heart attacks 2 years after vaccination, suggests a large hospital-based case-control study published in CMAJ.
Report debunks China energy myth
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A detailed analysis of powerplants in China by MIT researchers debunks the widespread notion that outmoded energy technology or the utter absence of government regulation is to blame for that country's notorious air-pollution ...
Hack-a-vote: Students learn how vulnerable electronic voting really is
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 07, 2008 |
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This week undergraduate and graduate students in an advanced computer security course at Rice University in Houston are learning hands-on just how easy it is to wreak havoc on computer software used in today's voting machines.
Researchers turn cancer friend into cancer foe
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Burnham Institute for Medical Research today announced that scientists have created a peptide that binds to Bcl-2, a protein that protects cancer cells from programmed cell death, and converts it into a cancer cell killer. ...
'Deadly dozen' reports diseases worsened by climate change
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Health experts from the Wildlife Conservation Society today released a report that lists 12 pathogens that could spread into new regions as a result of climate change, with potential impacts to both human and wildlife health ...
Ultrananocrystalline-diamond coating improves mechanical pump seals
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 07, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- From petroleum to food and beverage to pharmaceuticals, most industries use mechanical pumps, and all these pumps rely on seals to reduce leaks and maintenance costs. Argonne researchers, ...
