Computer scientists put a face on Internet communication with personalized icon software
Technology / Computer Sciences
Apr 09, 2007 |
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An alumnus and a professor from the University of Pittsburgh have chiseled away at the notorious impersonal nature of electronic communication by developing software that allows individuals to better express their emotions ...
Glass baby bottle use rising in California
Apr 09, 2007 |
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Stores in California cities such as San Francisco are having a hard time dealing with a sudden resurgence in the use of baby bottles made of glass.
Sea otters pushed out of bay habitat
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Apr 09, 2007 |
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Alaska's sea otters are in peril after a cold winter on the Alaskan Peninsula has frozen them out of their bay habitat.
Ethanol plant restrictions may be lifted
Apr 09, 2007 |
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Plants that make ethanol may be able to run with fewer environmental rules and less pollution control equipment, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
Study shows humans and plants share common regulatory pathway
Apr 09, 2007 |
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In findings that some might find reminiscent of science fiction, scientists at the Scripps Research Institute have shown for the first time that humans and plants share a common pathogen recognition pathway as part of their ...
Veterinary scientists explore poultry virus as cancer killer
Apr 09, 2007 |
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Virologists in the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine (VMRCVM) at Virginia Tech are looking at how a genetically modified variant of Avian Newcastle disease virus (NDV) can treat human prostate cancer.
Australians to store CO2 underground
Apr 09, 2007 |
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Australian scientists are pushing ahead with plans to store thousands of tons of carbon dioxide in an underground reservoir.
Diabetes may be associated with increased risk of mild cognitive impairment
Apr 09, 2007 |
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Individuals with diabetes may have a higher risk of developing mild cognitive impairment, a condition that involves difficulties with thinking and learning and may be an intermediate step toward Alzheimer's disease, according ...
Eating with our eyes: Why people eat less at unbused tables
Apr 09, 2007 |
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People watching the Super Bowl who saw how much they had already eaten -- in this case, leftover chicken-wing bones -- ate 27 percent less than people who had no such environmental cues, finds a new Cornell study.
Expedition 15 Crew Docks with Space Station
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 09, 2007 |
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Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and cosmonaut Oleg Kotov of the 15th International Space Station crew docked with the orbiting laboratory at 3:10 p.m. EDT Monday to begin a six-month stay aboard.
Antibiotics found to increasingly fail
Medicine & Health / Medications
Apr 09, 2007 |
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Pediatricians in the United States are increasingly finding that antibiotics are not always ideal for treating ear infections, a report says.
Progress against sarcoma
Apr 09, 2007 |
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University of Utah geneticists have engineered mice that can develop synovial sarcoma – a significant early step toward developing new treatments for the aggressive, deadly cancer that most often kills teenagers ...
MIT model helps researchers 'see' brain development
Apr 09, 2007 |
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Large mammals--humans, monkeys, and even cats--have brains with a somewhat mysterious feature: The outermost layer has a folded surface. Understanding the functional significance of these folds is one of the ...
E-activism: Analysis of black bloggers in the blogosphere
Apr 09, 2007 |
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In the first scholarly research examining the role of black bloggers in the blogosphere, Brown University researcher Antoinette Pole assessed how bloggers of color use their medium for purposes related to politics. She found ...
Researchers discover variants of natural tumor suppressor
Apr 09, 2007 |
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Building on their 2005 discovery of an enzyme that is a natural tumor suppressor, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have now identified two variants of that enzyme which could provide ...
