Archive: 01/11/2008
Researchers create mathematical model of fruit fly eyes
Many researchers have tried to create a mathematical model of how cells pack together to form tissue, but most models have many different complicated factors, and no model is universal.
Jan 11, 2008 |
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Two different neural pathways regulate loss and regain of consciousness during general anesthesia
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine researchers have answered long-running questions about the way that anesthetics act on the body, by showing that the cellular pathway for emerging from anesthesia is different ...
Jan 11, 2008 |
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MESSENGER set for historic Mercury flyby
NASA will return to Mercury for the first time in almost 33 years on Monday, Jan. 14, 2008, when the MESSENGER spacecraft makes its first flyby of the Sun’s closest neighbor, capturing images of large portions ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 11, 2008 |
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Magnetic Alloy With Swiss Cheese Structure Morphs Shape
Researchers have turned a stubborn alloy into a shape-shifting foam by just giving it a little breathing room.
Jan 11, 2008 |
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Dino Team Returns to SSRL
The experimental hutches at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory are well familiar with a macabre tide of materials brought in for close investigation. A recent tally includes ancient parchment texts, ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jan 11, 2008 |
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Winter Ice on Lakes, Rivers, Ponds: A Thing of the Past?
If you're planning to ice skate on a local lake or river this winter, you may need to think twice, according to scientists John Magnuson, Olaf Jensen and Barbara Benson of the University of Wisconsin at Madison. ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 11, 2008 |
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Massive Gas Cloud Speeding Toward Collision With Milky Way
A giant cloud of hydrogen gas is speeding toward a collision with our Milky Way Galaxy, and when it hits -- in less than 40 million years -- it may set off a spectacular burst of stellar fireworks.
Jan 11, 2008 |
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Greenhouse ocean may downsize fish
The last fish you ate probably came from the Bering Sea. But during this century, the sea’s rich food web—stretching from Alaska to Russia—could fray as algae adapt to greenhouse conditions.
Jan 11, 2008 |
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Ways to improve informed consent are testable, study says
New ways to make sure people are adequately informed about the risks and benefits of taking part in a clinical trial can be field-tested for effectiveness as vigorously as new medical treatments themselves, a study led by ...
Jan 11, 2008 |
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Stem cells make bone marrow cancer resistant to treatment
Scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center say they have evidence that cancer stem cells for multiple myeloma share many properties with normal stem cells and have multiple ways of resisting chemotherapy and other ...
Jan 11, 2008 |
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Millions of teens abusing cold medicines
A U.S. survey says millions of teenagers and young adults are getting high off non-prescription cough and cold medicines.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jan 11, 2008 |
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EPA: Underwear insurer agrees to pay
The American International Specialty Lines Insurance Company Inc. has agreed to pay $42.5 million to clean up contamination at four U.S. factory sites.
Jan 11, 2008 |
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Uncovering the Achilles' heel of the HIV-1 envelope
New structural details illustrate how a promising class of antibodies may block human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1 infection and reveal valuable clues for design of an effective HIV-1 vaccine.
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jan 11, 2008 |
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Physicists report novel interaction between superconductivity and magnetism
An international collaboration of researchers led by Morten Ring Eskildsen, an assistant professor of physics at the University of Notre Dame, has discovered an altogether new way in which superconducting electrons can interact ...
Jan 11, 2008 |
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La Niña: 'Little Girl' Makes Big Impression
Cool, wet conditions in the Northwest, frigid weather on the Plains, and record dry conditions in the Southeast, all signs that La Niña is in full swing. With winter gearing up, a moderate La Niña is hitting ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 11, 2008 |
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