Radon: A Silent Killer Can Lurk in Homes, MU Expert Says Test Now
Nov 08, 2007 |
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It can’t be seen, felt or tasted and it is even odorless. That is why radon is called the silent killer. According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), radon is the second leading cause of lung cancer deaths in the ...
Developing kryptonite for Superbug
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Nov 08, 2007 |
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University of Idaho researchers are crossing academic and geographical bounds to develop more effective defenses against Staphylococcus aureus bacteria and other deadly pathogens.
Body-weight regulation scientists give perspective on obesity-related research
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When obesity overloads the body with excess nutrients, parts start to fail. Obesity contributes to heart disease, stroke, diabetes, high blood pressure, some cancers, liver disease, immune dysfunction, painful joints, and ...
In the laboratory, green tea proves a powerful medicine against severe sepsis
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A major component of green tea could prove the perfect elixir for severe sepsis, an abnormal immune system response to a bacterial infection.
Remote Magnetic Field Triggers Nanoparticle Drug Release
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
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Magnetic nanoparticles heated by a remote magnetic field have the potential to release multiple anticancer drugs on demand at the site of a tumor, according to a study published in the journal Advanced Materials. Moreover, say th ...
Adult brain cells are movers and shakers
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It’s a general belief that the circuitry of young brains has robust flexibility but eventually gets “hard-wired” in adulthood. As Johns Hopkins researchers and their colleagues report in the Nov. 8 issue of ...
Bug-Zapper: A Dose of Radiation May Help Knock Out Malaria
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How are physicists helping an effort to eradicate malaria, the mosquito-borne disease that kills more than one million people every year? Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology used ...
Locals lose out to sexy aliens
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Globalisation has led to an increase in invasions by new species around the world and this is costing agriculture and the environment dearly.
Researchers discover 'instruction manual' that tells cancers how to hide from immune system
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A mechanism that creates an “invisibility cloak” for certain cancer cells and allows them to hide from the immune system has been uncovered by a team of researchers at the University of British Columbia.
ANITA is Back in Business
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The Antarctic Impulsive Transient Array (ANITA)—that plucky probe that visited SLAC last year before taking to the skies of Antarctica—is back in action.
Rosetta closes in on Earth -- a second time
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
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ESA’s comet chaser, Rosetta, is on its way to its second close encounter with Earth on 13 November. The spacecraft’s operators are leaving no stones unturned to make sure Earth’s gravity gives it the exact ...
Speed plays crucial role in breaking protein's H-bonds
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Researchers at MIT studying the architecture of proteins have finally explained why computer models of proteins' behavior under mechanical duress differ dramatically from experimental observations. This work ...
New insight into the link between genetics and obesity
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Scientists have acquired new insight into how the ‘obesity gene’ triggers weight gain in some individuals. Their findings, reported online today in Science Express, could have implications for the future treatment of obe ...
Measurements link magma melting rate to tectonic plate subduction rate
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 08, 2007 |
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Determining the origin and rate of magma production in subduction zone volcanoes is essential to understanding the formation of continental crust and the recycling of subducted materials back into Earth’s mantle.
Micro Microwave Does Pinpoint Cooking for Miniaturized Labs
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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and George Mason University have demonstrated what is probably the world’s smallest microwave oven, a tiny mechanism that can heat a pinhead-sized ...
