THEMIS probes view auroral substorms, bowshock explosions
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 11, 2007 |
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Five satellites launched last February to probe magnetic storms around the Earth will move into prime observing position next month, but they already have produced important new information on the interactions ...
More 'functional' DNA in genome than previously thought
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Surrounding the small islands of genes within the human genome is a vast sea of mysterious DNA. While most of this non-coding DNA is junk, some of it is used to help genes turn on and off. As reported online this week in ...
Why the Switch Stays On: Scientists Discover Reasons Behind Cancerous Cellular Interactions
Dec 11, 2007 |
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Cellular processes, such as when to multiply, are often regulated by switches that control the frequency and timing of interactions between proteins. North Carolina State University scientists have discovered the way in which ...
Arctic Impact Crater Lake Reveals Interglacial Cycles in Sediments
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 11, 2007 |
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A University of Arkansas researcher and a team of international scientists have taken cores from the sediments of a Canadian Arctic lake and found an interglacial record indicating two ice-free periods that ...
Earthquake Season in the Himalayan Front
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 11, 2007 |
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Scientists have long searched for what triggers earthquakes, even suggesting that tides or weather play a role. Recent research spearheaded by Jean-Philippe Avouac, professor of geology and director of the Tectonics Observatory ...
Brain stem cells sensitive to space radiation
Dec 11, 2007 |
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) scientists recently led a team of researchers to study potential effects of space radiation on astronauts. The results of their study are revealing and will provide the foundation for ...
New model revises estimates of terrestrial carbon dioxide uptake
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 11, 2007 |
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Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a new model of global carbon and nitrogen cycling that will fundamentally transform the understanding of how plants and soils interact with a changing atmosphere and ...
A little plaster goes a long way
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Getting ‘plastered’ has a whole new meaning thanks to a device the size of a band aid which monitors a patient’s health and wellbeing via a mobile phone.
Greenland melt accelerating, according to CU-Boulder study
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 11, 2007 |
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The 2007 melt extent on the Greenland ice sheet broke the 2005 summer melt record by 10 percent, making it the largest ever recorded there since satellite measurements began in 1979, according to a University ...
Making schools more successful for more students more of the time
Dec 11, 2007 |
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The key findings of 30 years of worldwide School Effectiveness Research (SER) are examined in a new report funded by CfBT Education Trust.
Hazy red sunset on extrasolar planet
Dec 11, 2007 |
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A team of astronomers have used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to detect, for the first time, strong evidence of hazes in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting a distant star. The discovery comes after ...
New NASA Mission to Reveal Moon's Internal Structure and Evolution
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 11, 2007 |
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At a Monday meeting of the American Geophysical Union, NASA's Associate Administrator for Science Alan Stern announced the selection of a new mission that will peer deep inside the moon to reveal its anatomy ...
Caught in the act: The dynamic dance of enzymes
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Dec 11, 2007 |
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In a new study in Nature, Brandeis University Howard Hughes Medical Investigator Dr. Dorothee Kern and collaborators pull back the curtain on the secret lives of enzymes, the ubiquitous proteins that catalyze chemical reacti ...
Infants Fine-Tune Their Visual and Auditory Skills in First Year of Life, Psychologist Says
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 11, 2007 |
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Infants refine and narrow their ability to discriminate between things they see and hear in their first year, revealing what appears to be a decline in ability at a time when most other skills and functions are dramatically ...
Rising CO2 signals wetter storms for Northern Hemisphere
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 11, 2007 |
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While two new studies by researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences predict wetter storms for the Arctic and for the Northern Hemisphere because of ...
