Model of Easter Island Collapse Might Reveal Message for Today
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When a thriving civilization suddenly collapses, it’s often a mystery – and an ominous one, at that. For Easter Island circa 1000-1400 AD, experts believe it was a case of humans overexploiting their natural ...
Latest Supercomputer Calculations Support the Six-Quark Theory
Feb 11, 2008 |
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A new calculation, reported in the January 25, 2008 issue of Physical Review Letters, confirms the six-quark theory of particle-anti-particle asymmetry. This is the first complete calculation of this phenomenon to employ ...
'Recordable' proteins as next-generation memory storage materials
Feb 11, 2008 |
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Move over, compact discs, DVDs, and hard drives. Researchers in Japan report progress toward developing a new protein-based memory device that could provide an alternative to conventional magnetic and optical storage systems, ...
Scientists reprogram human skin cells into embryonic stem cells
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Feb 11, 2008 |
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UCLA stem cell scientists have reprogrammed human skin cells into cells with the same unlimited properties as embryonic stem cells without using embryos or eggs.
Light echoes whisper the distance to a star
Feb 11, 2008 |
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Taking advantage of the presence of light echoes, a team of astronomers have used an ESO telescope to measure, at the 1% precision level, the distance of a Cepheid - a class of variable stars that constitutes ...
Reaching 100 Is Easier Than Suspected
Feb 11, 2008 |
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A healthy lifestyle during the early elderly years—including weight management, exercising regularly and not smoking—may be associated with a greater probability of living to age 90 in men, as well as good health and physical ...
Artificial sweeteners linked to weight gain
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Want to lose weight? It might help to pour that diet soda down the drain. Researchers have laboratory evidence that the widespread use of no-calorie sweeteners may actually make it harder for people to control their intake ...
Researchers design copper connections for high-speed computing
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As computers become more complex, the demand increases for more connections between computer chips and external circuitry such as a motherboard or wireless card. And as the integrated circuits become more ...
The beauty bias: Can people love the one they are compatible with?
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 11, 2008 |
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Physical attractiveness is important in choosing whom to date. Good looking people are not only popular targets for romantic pursuits, they themselves also tend to flock together with more attractive others. Does this mean ...
Scientists identify possible target for prevention and treatment of pneumonia
Feb 11, 2008 |
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Researchers at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC have identified a key protein target that may be a crucial factor in the development of a vaccine to prevent and new therapies to treat pneumonia, the leading killer ...
Is your dating partner happy? Research finds it hard to know at times
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Research tends to focus on the positives of self-monitoring -- a personality characteristic that accounts for how attuned individuals are to societal conventions as well as the degree to which “appropriateness” controls their ...
Researchers find the root of the evolutionary emergence of vertebrates
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Dartmouth College researchers and colleagues from the University of Bristol in the U.K. have traced the beginnings of complex life, i.e. vertebrates, to microRNA. The researchers argue that the evolution of microRNAs, which ...
Carbon capture strategy could lead to emission-free cars
Feb 11, 2008 |
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Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a strategy to capture, store and eventually recycle carbon from vehicles to prevent the pollutant from finding its way from a car tailpipe into the atmosphere. ...
Why anyone can make a sandcastle
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Anyone trying to build sandcastles on the beach will need some degree of skill and imagination, but not an instruction manual. The water content is actually relatively unimportant to the mechanical properties ...
New Greenland ice sheet data will impact climate change models
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 11, 2008 |
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A comprehensive new study authored by University at Buffalo scientists and their colleagues for the first time documents in detail the dynamics of parts of Greenland’s ice sheet, important data that have long been missing ...
