Archive: 01/08/2007
Annual plants may cope with global warming better than long-living species
Countering Charles Darwin's view that evolution occurs gradually, UC Irvine scientists have discovered that plants with short life cycles can evolutionally adapt in just a few years to climate change.
Biology /
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There's no scent like home
Tiny larval fish living among Australia's Great Barrier Reef spend the early days of their lives swept up in ocean currents that disperse them far from their places of birth. Given such a life history, one might assume that ...
Biology /
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Homing nanoparticles pack multiple assault on tumors
A collaborative team led by Erkki Ruoslahti, M.D., Ph.D., of the Burnham Institute for Medical Research at UC Santa Barbara (Burnham) has developed nanoparticles that seek out tumors and bind to their blood vessels, and then ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jan 08, 2007 |
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Higher folate levels linked to reduced risk for Alzheimer's disease
Individuals who take in higher levels of the nutrient folate through both diet and supplements may have a reduced risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, according to a report in the January issue of Archives of Neurology, one of ...
Jan 08, 2007 |
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Emergency pill doesn't drop pregnancy rate
Widespread use of emergency contraception pills don't appear to lower pregnancy or abortion rates, U.S. researchers said.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jan 08, 2007 |
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Doctor: Beware of online organ trade
A British transplant surgeon warned against people selling organs over the Internet, following a published report that online organ trading was occurring.
Jan 08, 2007 |
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Large-Scale Study Examines New Treatment for Adults Who Stutter
For an adult who stutters, the mere act of introducing oneself is enough to cause sweaty palms, heart palpitations, and worse. When particular sounds or syllables don't roll easily off the tongue, articulating something as ...
Jan 08, 2007 |
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Sharp Develops 108V-Inch LCD TV, the World’s Largest
Sharp has successfully developed a 108V-inch LCD TV, the world’s largest, and will exhibit a prototype model at the 2007 International CES to be held in Las Vegas, USA, beginning January 8.
Jan 08, 2007 |
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Experimental 'wind to hydrogen' system up and running
Xcel Energy and the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory today unveiled a unique facility that uses electricity from wind turbines to produce and store pure hydrogen, offering what may become an ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jan 08, 2007 |
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Carbon Nanotubes Target Tumors
In the first experiment of its kind, investigators at the Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence Focused on Therapy Response (CCNE-TR), based at Stanford University, have shown that single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jan 08, 2007 |
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Astronomers find triple interactions of supermassive black holes to be common in early universe
New cosmological computer simulations produced by a team of astronomers from Northwestern University, Harvard University and the University of Michigan show for the first time that supermassive black holes (SMBHs), which ...
Jan 08, 2007 |
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New stars shed light on the past
This new image taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys onboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope depicts bright blue newly formed stars that are blowing a cavity in the centre of a fascinating star-forming ...
Jan 08, 2007 |
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Jefferson cardiologists fix broken heart
Unexplained chest pain after a heart attack might be more dangerous than many physicians originally think.
Jan 08, 2007 |
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Ethanol analysis confirms benefits of biofuels
Controversy over the benefits of using corn-based ethanol in vehicles has been fueled by studies showing that converting corn into ethanol may use more fossil energy than the energy contained in the ethanol produced. Now ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jan 08, 2007 |
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New Study Sheds Light On 'Dark States' In DNA
Chemists at Ohio State University have probed an unusual high-energy state produced in single nucleotides -- the building blocks of DNA and RNA -- when they absorb ultraviolet (UV) light.
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