Archive: 11/07/2008
Paleontologists Doubt 'Dinosaur Dance Floor'
(PhysOrg.com) -- A group of paleontologists visited the northern Arizona wilderness site nicknamed a "dinosaur dance floor" and concluded there were no dinosaur tracks there, only a dense collection of unusual p ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 07, 2008 |
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ACC/AHA guidelines break new ground in adult congenital heart disease
These days most children born with congenital heart disease live well into adulthood, thanks to innovative surgical, interventional and medical treatments. That means that not only are cardiologists caring for a growing number ...
Nov 07, 2008 |
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World needs climate emergency backup plan, says expert
In submitted testimony to the British Parliament, climate scientist Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution said that while steep cuts in carbon emissions are essential to stabilizing global climate, there also needs to ...
Nov 07, 2008 |
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New equation provides more accurate estimates of kidney function
A newly developed equation produces more accurate estimates of the glomerular filtration rate (GFR)—a key indicator of kidney function in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), according to research being presented at ...
Nov 07, 2008 |
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Creating Music With Your Cell Phone
(PhysOrg.com) -- If you own a cell phone, then new software created by Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology director Gil Weinberg and his students will allow you to be the next composer and performer of ...
Nov 07, 2008 |
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Music Technology Researchers Create New Robotic Percussionist
(PhysOrg.com) -- Georgia Tech has created an improved version of the robotic percussionist. The second edition, named Shimon, is designed to play a melodic instrument – the marimba. It, therefore, utilizes ...
Nov 07, 2008 |
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Revised Theory Suggests Carbon Dioxide Levels Already in Danger Zone
(PhysOrg.com) -- If climate disasters are to be averted, atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) must be reduced below the levels that already exist today, according to a study published in Open Atmospheric Science Jo ...
Nov 07, 2008 |
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Compounds May Help Combat Brain Diseases
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas and Southern Methodist University (SMU) have identified a group of chemical compounds that slows the degeneration of neurons, a condition that causes such ...
Nov 07, 2008 |
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In India, traditional farming method helps sustain bird diversity
(PhysOrg.com) -- An agricultural method dating back millennia could be the key to species conservation. For the past 2,000 years, farming practices of the areca nut palm in southwestern India have not changed much. Surprisingly, ...
Biology /
Nov 07, 2008 |
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Researchers find new path to antibiotics in dirt
(PhysOrg.com) -- A teaspoon of dirt contains an estimated 10,000 species of bacteria, but it’s only one percent of these microbial bugs — the ones that can be grown easily in a lab — that have brought us antibiotics, anticancer ...
Biology /
Nov 07, 2008 |
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Scientists confirm molecular clipping mechanism behind stem cell development
(PhysOrg.com) -- Stem cells don’t just become a part of the liver or the brain in a flash; it takes a complex molecular choreography and requires that specific genes be switched on and off at specific times. Some of these ...
Biology /
Nov 07, 2008 |
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Scientists Gain Important Insights Into how Brain Transfers, Processes and Stores Visual Information
(PhysOrg.com) -- Just released research published in prestigious international journal Nature Neuroscience details the findings of an international team of researchers led by Australian scientist and Macquarie University senior ...
Nov 07, 2008 |
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Researchers seek to understand and improve virus that infects lung cancer cells
(PhysOrg.com) -- Using data collected at Advanced Photon Source at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, researchers at The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, Calif., have for the first time solved ...
Nov 07, 2008 |
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Harnessing nature's diagnostic tools for disease prevention
(PhysOrg.com) -- The earlier cancer is diagnosed, the better the chance of effecting a cure. A revolutionary new hybrid technology offers the possibility of detecting this and other diseases right at inception.
Nov 07, 2008 |
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Computer model can predict human behavior and learning
A computer model that can predict how people will complete a controlled task and how the knowledge needed to complete that task develops over time is the product of a group of researchers, led by a professor from Penn State's ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
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