How vitamin C stops the big 'C'
Sep 10, 2007 |
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Nearly 30 years after Nobel laureate Linus Pauling famously and controversially suggested that vitamin C supplements can prevent cancer, a team of Johns Hopkins scientists have shown that in mice at least, vitamin C - and ...
Drawing nanoscale features the fast and easy way
Sep 10, 2007 |
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Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a new technique for nanolithography that is extremely fast and capable of being used in a range of environments including air (outside a vacuum) ...
Machines might talk with humans by putting themselves in our shoes
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 10, 2007 |
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While robots can do some remarkable things, they don't yet possess the gift of gab. Since the 1970s, researchers have been trying to develop a speech-based human-machine interface, but improvements are gradual, ...
Researchers uncover novel mechanism that balances the sizes of functional areas in the brain
Sep 10, 2007 |
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In the cerebral cortex, the brain’s powerful central processing unit responsible for higher functions, specialized subdivisions known as areas are laid out like a map, but little is known about the genetic forces that shape ...
Magnets can boost production of ethanol for fuel
Sep 10, 2007 |
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In a finding that could reduce the cost of ethanol fuel, researchers in Brazil report success in using low frequency magnetic waves to significantly boost the amount of ethanol produced through the fermentation of sugar. ...
Mathematics of Ice to Aid Global Warming Forecasts
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 10, 2007 |
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University of Utah mathematicians have arrived at a new understanding of how salt-saturated ocean water flows through sea ice - a discovery that promises to improve forecasts of how global warming will affect polar icepacks.
Mars Rovers Survive Severe Dust Storms, Ready for Next Objectives
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 10, 2007 |
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Two months after sky-darkening dust from severe storms nearly killed NASA's Mars exploration rovers, the solar-powered robots are awake and ready to continue their mission. Opportunity’s planned descent into ...
SanDisk Announces New Sansa View Video MP3 Player
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Sep 10, 2007 |
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SanDisk Corporation, the second largest seller of MP3 players in the United States, today announced the new Sansa View – a video MP3 player with a vast array of features and generous capacity, at an unbeatable ...
Sugar identified as key to malaria parasite invasion
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Sep 10, 2007 |
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Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute (JHMRI) have identified a sugar in mosquitoes that allows the malaria-causing parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, to attach itself to the mosquito’s gut. Invasion of ...
Study reveals predation-evolution link
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The fossil record seems to indicate that the diversity of marine creatures increased and decreased over hundreds of millions of years in step with predator-prey encounters, Virginia Tech geoscientists report ...
Research says low paying jobs damage future employment prospects
Sep 10, 2007 |
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New research by University of Warwick economist Professor Mark Stewart reveals that being in a low paying job damages your prospects of finding new employment as much as being in a sustained period of unemployment.
Doctor: pigs with human organs 2 years off
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One of Britain's top doctors says pigs grown with transplantable human organs could be bred within two years.
STS-120 to Deliver Harmony Node to ISS
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 10, 2007 |
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A series of recent shuttle missions have added to the International Space Station's exterior with new elements for its main truss. Now, Discovery will take into orbit a connecting module that will increase ...
HARDY rice: less water, more food
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Sep 10, 2007 |
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An international team of scientists has produced a new type of rice that grows better and uses water more efficiently than other rice crops. Professor Andy Pereira at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) has been working ...
A chocolate cookie a day puts 20 pounds on an energetically-balanced kid in 4 years
Sep 10, 2007 |
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After summer holidays, miracle-diet adherents stick to these diets to lose the weight gained in the last months in record time. Gyms also become overcrowded with people making a final sprint of sacrifice whose results do ...
