Study finds facial expressions are inherited
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Scientists have found that family members share a facial expression “signature”—a unique form of the universal facial expressions encountered worldwide. In a rare study taking into account blind subjects, Gili Peleg, et al ...
Ocean Creatures Linked to Cloud Cover Increases
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 07, 2006 |
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Atmospheric scientists have reported a new and potentially important mechanism by which chemical emissions from ocean phytoplankton may influence the formation of clouds that reflect sunlight away from our ...
Two nerve cells in direct contact
Nov 07, 2006 |
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For the first time, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology in Martinsried near Munich (Germany) have been able to show how two nerve cells communicate with each other from different hemispheres ...
Bridging neurons and electronics with carbon nanotubes
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Nov 07, 2006 |
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New implantable biomedical devices that can act as artificial nerve cells, control severe pain, or allow otherwise paralyzed muscles to be moved might one day be possible thanks to developments in materials science.
Cold War caper revisted
Nov 07, 2006 |
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Two Michigan State University researchers are the first to unlock the secrets of the invisible ink used by East Germany's secret police force, the Stasi, and in the process have mixed a batch of chemistry, history and mystery ...
Bizarre Lunar Orbits
Nov 07, 2006 |
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Near the end of the mission of Apollo 16, on April 24, 1972, just before returning back home to Earth, the three astronauts released one last scientific experiment: a small "subsatellite" called PFS-2 to orbit ...
An old discovery could boost ethanol production from plant fiber
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John Verkade remembers just how it happened some 40 years ago: One of his Iowa State University graduate students, David Hendricker, stopped by to report somebody was stealing a little wooden applicator stick ...
Cut from different cloth
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A large survey, made with ESO's VLT, has shed light on our Galaxy's ancestry. After determining the chemical composition of over 2000 stars in the four nearest dwarf galaxies to our own, astronomers have demonstrated ...
Bones at the nanoscale
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Nov 07, 2006 |
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Scientists from Max Planck Institute (Germany) and the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility have just discovered the way deformation at the nanoscale takes place in a bone by studying it with the synchrotron ...
Nature's nanomachines harnessed to make drugs
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Nov 07, 2006 |
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Many bacteria produce toxins that can threaten human health, however new research into how bacteria secrete these substances is giving clues as to how scientists could harness these processes to produce biopharmaceuticals. ...
Samsung Reveals the Latest in Mobile Convergence Devices Ready for Mobile WiMAX Technology
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Nov 07, 2006 |
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Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, a global leader in telecommunication network systems and handsets, unveiled the latest in mobile convergence device, the SPH-P9000 Deluxe MITs at Mobile WiMAX Summit 2006. The ...
Antioxidants: New Kid On The Block For Pain Relief?
Nov 07, 2006 |
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Antioxidant-based pain killers may one day become a viable alternative to addictive medications such as morphine. Researchers found that synthetic antioxidants practically eradicated pain-like behavior in nearly three-quarters ...
Water: More Valuable than Diamonds
Nov 07, 2006 |
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A new study by University of Arkansas economists shows a strong relationship between economic freedom and access to water. David Gay and Charles Britton, economics professors in the Sam M. Walton College of Business, and ...
Many Weather Factors Needed for Accurate Climate Change Predictions
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 07, 2006 |
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Current climate change impact models that consider only one weather variable, such as increasing temperature, sometimes spawn unsubstantiated doomsday predictions, according to researchers at Purdue and North ...
Google could be 'gagged' by new laws: expert
Nov 07, 2006 |
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Internet search engines such as Google could be crippled by changes to copyright law in Australia that look set to be implemented by the Federal Government, a Copyright expert from The Australian National University argues.
