Valley networks on Mars formed during long period of episodic flooding
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 08, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study suggests that ancient features on the surface of Mars called valley networks were carved by recurrent floods during a long period when the martian climate may have been much like ...
Golden Nanorods for Medical Applications
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Sep 08, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Gold nanoparticles are under consideration for a number of biomedical applications, such as tumor treatment. A German-American research team at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Hunter ...
Pinnacle Unveils Compact USB Digital HDTV Tuner
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Sep 08, 2008 |
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Just in time for the Fall Season TV line up, Pinnacle has introduce their new ultra-compact HDTV tuner with some features found in DVR's. With Pinnacle´s HDTV Stick you can also pause live TV and record shows ...
Enzyme Detectives Uncover New Reactions, Products
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Sep 08, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- If your experiment doesn't go the way you expect, take a closer look -- something even more interesting may have happened. That strategy has led scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's ...
Walk this way? Masculine motion seems to come at you, while females walk away
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Sep 08, 2008 |
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You can tell a lot about people from the way they move alone: their gender, age, and even their mood, earlier studies have shown. Now, researchers reporting in the September 9th issue of Current Biology, a Cell Press public ...
Infidelity dissected: New research on why people cheat
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 08, 2008 |
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The probability of someone cheating during the course of a relationship varies between 40 and 76 percent. "It's very high," says Geneviève Beaulieu-Pelletier, PhD student at the Université de Montréal's Department of Psychology.
The truth about cats and dogs
Biology /
Sep 08, 2008 |
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Thinking about adopting a perky little puppy as a friend for your fluffy cat, but worried that they'll fight -- well, like cats and dogs?
Steins: A diamond in the sky
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 08, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The first images from Rosetta's OSIRIS imaging system and VIRTIS infrared spectrometer were derived from raw data this morning and have delivered spectacular results.
Study: Fake news shows less important in learning about politics
Sep 08, 2008 |
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A new study suggests that entertainment news shows such as The Daily Show or The Colbert Report may not be as influential in teaching voters about political issues and candidates as was previously thought.
Dirty air brings rain -- then again, maybe not
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 08, 2008 |
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An international team of scientists, headed by Prof. Daniel Rosenfeld of the Institute of Earth Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has come up with a surprising finding to the disputed issue of ...
Fluctuations in serotonin transport may explain winter blues
Sep 08, 2008 |
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Why do many Canadians get the winter blues? In the first study of its kind in the living human brain, Dr. Jeffrey Meyer and colleagues at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) have discovered greater levels of ...
'Healthy' individuals may be at risk for heart disease
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In the face of a growing obesity epidemic in the United States, researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center have new study results that indicate that how much fat a person has is not as important as where ...
Genetic variants associated with vitamin B12
Sep 08, 2008 |
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Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and their collaborators at Tufts University and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) have identified a common genetic influence on B12 vitamin levels in the blood, ...
As Andean glacier retreats, tiny life forms swiftly move in, study shows
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Sep 08, 2008 |
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A University of Colorado at Boulder team working at 16,400 feet in the Peruvian Andes has discovered how barren soils uncovered by retreating glacier ice can swiftly establish a thriving community of microbes, ...
Mind the gap: VLT instrument hints at the presence of planets in young gas discs
Sep 08, 2008 |
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Astronomers have been able to study planet-forming discs around young Sun-like stars in unsurpassed detail, clearly revealing the motion and distribution of the gas in the inner parts of the disc. This result, ...
