Backpacked pigeons report for smog duty
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If you live in northern California and see pigeons wearing tiny backpacks don't worry -- you are not hallucinating.
Declining Death Rates Due to Safer Vehicles, Not Better Drivers Or Improved Roadways
Aug 10, 2006 |
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The designs of passenger vehicles have been improving for years, becoming more protective of their occupants in crashes. Without these improvements, the motor vehicle death rate per registered vehicle would have stopped declining ...
Samsung Develops World's First LCD Screen of 3 inch VGA Quality
Aug 10, 2006 |
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Samsung Electronics announced today that it has developed the first three-inch LCD panel with VGA (640 x 480 pixels) resolution that directly meets industry interface standards for digital still cameras.
Study: Forest fires huge cost to health
Aug 10, 2006 |
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Canadian researchers say forest fires don't just have an impact on the environment, the blazes also take a toll on human health.
Crab nabbed; circumstances fishy
Aug 10, 2006 |
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MIT researchers have confirmed the first sighting of a Dungeness crab in the Atlantic Ocean. The male, whose species is common on North America's West Coast, was caught off Thatcher Island, Massachusetts, on ...
Study: U.S. babies are becoming fatter
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U.S. medical researchers have examined more than 120,000 Massachusetts children under age 6 for 22 years -- and found today's babies are fatter.
Computer scientists lay out vision for a 'science of the Web'
Aug 10, 2006 |
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Researchers need a clear agenda to harness the rapidly evolving potential of the World Wide Web, according to an article in the Aug. 11 issue of the journal Science. Calling for the creation of an interdisciplinary "scien ...
NASA offers support for SNAP project
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 10, 2006 |
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NASA announced Thursday it will support an advanced mission concept study for the supernova acceleration probe, or SNAP, mission.
1000th sungrazing comet discovered by SOHO
Aug 10, 2006 |
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Polish amateur comet hunter Arkadiusz Kubczak recently discovered his third comet in SOHO LASCO coronagraph images, but this one was special: the 1000th SOHO comet discovery in the Kreutz group of sungrazing ...
Robot teaches medical school students
Aug 10, 2006 |
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Wake Forest University School of Medicine students expecting a lecture on the brain and nervous system instead find themselves treating a robotic patient.
Recombination protein dynamics observed with single monomer resolution
Aug 10, 2006 |
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Using a sensitive, single-molecule measurement technique, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have observed the life cycle of RecA, a protein that plays a major role in repairing damaged DNA.
Time of Day Tempers Tadpoles' Response to Predators
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To a tiny tadpole, life boils down to two basic missions: eat, and avoid being eaten. But there's a trade-off. The more a tadpole eats, the faster it grows big enough to transform into a frog; yet finding food requires being ...
Bioethicist: Egg donors should be paid
Aug 10, 2006 |
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A U.S. bioethicist says women who donate their eggs for stem cell research should be compensated, as are other healthy research volunteers.
Computational Analysis Shows That Plant Hormones Often Go It Alone
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Unlike the Three Musketeers who lived by the motto “All for one, one for all,” plant hormones prefer to do their own thing. For years, debate swirled around whether pathways activated by growth-regulating plant hormones converge ...
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