Segment of a 'Quantum Repeater' Demonstrated
Apr 09, 2007 |
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Physicists at the California Institute of Technology have succeeded for the first time in the distribution of "entanglement" in a way that could lead to long-distance quantum communications, scalable quantum networks, and ...
Study notes decline in male births in the US and Japan
Apr 09, 2007 |
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A study published in this week’s online edition of Environmental Health Perspectives reports that during the past thirty years, the number of male births has decreased each year in the U.S. and Japan.
Lithium Builds Gray Matter in Bipolar Brains, Study Shows
Apr 09, 2007 |
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Neuroscientists at UCLA have shown that lithium, long the standard treatment for bipolar disorder, increases the amount of gray matter in the brains of patients with the illness.
Arsenic in chicken feed may pose health risks to humans
Apr 09, 2007 |
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Pets may not be the only organisms endangered by some food additives. An arsenic-based additive used in chicken feed may pose health risks to humans who eat meat from chickens that are raised on the feed, according to an ...
Chemist develops plastic with changeable conductivity
Apr 09, 2007 |
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Dr. Yueh-Lin (Lynn) Loo at The University of Texas at Austin has modified a plastic so its ability to carry an electrical current can be altered during manufacturing to meet the needs of future electronic ...
Intel Launches New Quad-core Processor for High-End PCs
Apr 09, 2007 |
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Intel is targeting high-end PC users and gamers with a new quad-core processor. The latest chip is aimed at gamers, design professionals and enthusiasts looking for high-performance hardware.
Smoking and Caffeine May Protect Against Parkinson's Disease
Apr 09, 2007 |
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In families affected by Parkinson's disease, the people who smoked cigarettes and drank a lot of coffee were less likely to develop the disease, say researchers at Duke University Medical Center.
Study links smoking to female offspring
Apr 09, 2007 |
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A study in Britain suggests that parents who are smokers at the time of conception are more likely to have a female child.
Discovery Raises Questions About Some Therapies Designed to Treat Half of all Human Cancers
Apr 09, 2007 |
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Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have uncovered a new way by which common mutants of a critical human tumor-suppressing gene can promote tumor progression, a finding which may explain why some cancer ...
Nanotextured implant materials: blending in, not fighting back
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Apr 09, 2007 |
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Biomedical engineers are constantly coming up with ways to repair the human body, replacing defective and worn out parts with plastic, titanium, and ceramic substitutes – but the body does not always accept ...
Key 'Stardust' spacecraft find questioned
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 09, 2007 |
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Spanish scientists say one of the major discoveries from last year's "Stardust" space mission might have resulted from rocket booster contamination.
Study of coastal disasters yields surprising findings, arresting images
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 09, 2007 |
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Two of the world’s worst natural disasters in recent years stemmed from different causes on opposite sides of the globe, but actually had much in common, according to Yin Lu “Julie” Young.
Scientists Finds Earliest Evidence of Maize Farming in Mexico
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 09, 2007 |
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A Florida State University anthropologist has new evidence that ancient farmers in Mexico were cultivating an early form of maize, the forerunner of modern corn, about 7,300 years ago - 1,200 years earlier than scholars previously ...
Milk beats soy for muscle gain
Apr 09, 2007 |
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Got milk? Weightlifters will want to raise a glass after a new study found that milk protein is significantly better than soy at building muscle mass.
The sturdier sex? Study finds female stem cells work better
Biology /
Apr 09, 2007 |
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Female stem cells derived from muscle have a greater ability to regenerate skeletal muscle tissue than male cells, according to a study at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC.
