Japanese professors to receive prestigious physics prize in Manchester
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The prestigious European Physical Society (EPS) High Energy and Particle Physics Prize will be awarded to two Japanese academics at a major conference at The University of Manchester.
NASA Readies Mars Lander for August Launch to Icy Site
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 09, 2007 |
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NASA's next Mars mission will look beneath a frigid arctic landscape for conditions favorable to past or present life.
Study Goes ‘Back to the Future’ to Learn More About DNA Codes
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The genetic information of our chromosomes is encoded into the language of DNA. This language is composed of code words, each representing one of the 20 amino acids found in proteins. How do cells translate the language of ...
Environmental inequality study finds no direct links to segregation, income
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A new study examining two possible factors leading to "environmental racism" finds that although the average black or Hispanic resident of a major U.S. city lives in a more polluted part of town than the average white person, ...
More muscle for the argument to give up smoking
Jul 09, 2007 |
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Researchers at The University of Nottingham have got more bad news for smokers. Not only does it cause cancer, heart attacks and strokes but smokers will also lose more muscle mass in old age than a non-smoker. The effect ...
What's in your microcapsule? Tattoo ink -- and more
Jul 09, 2007 |
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In her Brown University laboratory, Edith Mathiowitz makes tiny particles coated in polymers. These microcapsules, some as small as the point of a pin, can carry medicines, genes, paints, pesticides – any ...
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that (modern) swing
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Jul 09, 2007 |
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When it's time to mate, female white-crowned sparrows are looking for a male who sings the latest version of the love song, not some 1979 relic.
GROND takes off
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A new instrument has seen First Light at the ESO La Silla Observatory. Equipping the 2.2-m MPI/ESO telescope, GROND takes images simultaneously in seven colours. It will be mostly used to determine distances of gamma-ray ...
NYC syphilis cases double in first quarter of 2007
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After leveling off for more than two years, and declining in 2006, new syphilis cases spiked in New York City during the first three months of 2007. The Health Department announced today that doctors reported 260 cases of ...
No evidence for decline in reading
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A three-year investigation by a team at The University of Manchester (UK) has shown that contrary to popular expectation, Brits spent more time reading in recent times than they did in the 1970s.
Scientists work to control indoor mold
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A U.S. research team has recommended various public policy guidelines that could be used to control indoor mold contamination in homes.
Low vitamin D levels may be common in otherwise healthy children
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Many otherwise healthy children and adolescents have low vitamin D levels, which may put them at risk for bone diseases such as rickets. African American children, children above age nine and with low dietary vitamin D intake ...
Researchers discover how microRNAs control protein synthesis
Jul 09, 2007 |
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While most RNAs work to create, package, and transfer proteins as determined by the cell’s immediate needs, miniature pieces of RNA, called microRNAs (miRNAs) regulate gene expression. Recently, researchers from the University ...
Scientists gain important insights into acute promyelocytic leukemia
Jul 09, 2007 |
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Results from two new studies provide key mechanistic insights into the complex molecular events that cause a deadly type of leukemia. The research, published in the July issue of the journal Cancer Cell, published by Cel ...
Sambirano chocolate bars are recalled
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced the voluntary recall of Scharffen Berger Kumasi Sambirano chocolate bars because of mislabeling.
