Archive: 12/11/2008
Earth has warmed 0.4 C in 30 years
(PhysOrg.com) -- Half of the globe has warmed at least one half of one degree Fahrenheit (0.3 C) in the past 30 years, while half of that -- a full quarter of the globe -- warmed at least one full degree Fahrenheit ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 11, 2008 |
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More expensive = more educational is not the right formula for buying good children's toys
(PhysOrg.com) -- With the economic pinch hitting the North Pole as much as anywhere else this holiday season, would-be Santas should look to be more creative about the toys they buy their young children.
Dec 11, 2008 |
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Darwin's Dinobird Fossil Analyzed at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
(PhysOrg.com) -- A keystone of evolutionary history, the Thermopolis Archaeopteryx fossil, has come to the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to undergo a revolutionary ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Dec 11, 2008 |
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Celebrating the man who invented the mouse
(PhysOrg.com) -- Forty years ago, Stanford researcher Doug Engelbart got a standing ovation in a San Francisco auditorium after dramatically introducing the computer mouse, hyperlinks, live text editing and ...
Dec 11, 2008 |
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Study finds link between political corruption and FEMA money
Where natural disasters strike, political corruption is soon to follow, say the authors of a study in the Journal of Law and Economics. But it's not the wind and rain that turns good folks bad; it's the money that floods ...
Dec 11, 2008 |
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What you give, might not always be received
A fundamental process in the transmission of genes from mother to child has been identified by researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University. The new study published in the December issue of the journal ...
Dec 11, 2008 |
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Key to regulation of puberty discovered
A team of scientists from the University of Cambridge and the University of Cukurova in Turkey have taken a major step to understanding how the brain controls the onset of puberty.
Dec 11, 2008 |
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An enzyme that mutates antibodies also targets a cancer-causing oncogene
The human immune system is in a perpetual state of self-experimentation. It expertly mutates and shuffles the DNA of its own cells to evolve new defenses against the vast array of microbes that try to invade our bodies. But ...
Dec 11, 2008 |
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Engineers to create parts of virtual crash test dummy
You really can learn a lot from a dummy. For decades, automakers have been crashing test dummies to gain insight to how various auto safety systems protect – or fail to protect – people during car accidents. But those dummies ...
Dec 11, 2008 |
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Flapping wing vehicle improves on the a helicopter
(PhysOrg.com) -- Since the days of Leonardo da Vinci people have tried to build machines that fly with flapping wings like a bird or an insect. Even in the jet age the idea remains attractive because such ...
Dec 11, 2008 |
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Device could filter cancer cells from blood
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a new tactic in the fight against cancer, Cornell researcher Michael King has developed what he calls a lethal "lint brush" for the blood -- a tiny, implantable device that captures and ...
Dec 11, 2008 |
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Meta-analyses of global trials finds in favor of aromatase inhibitors
Two separate meta-analyses of clinical trials from around the world that tested tamoxifen against aromatase inhibitor drugs in postmenopausal women with early breast cancer have each reached the same conclusion: aromatase ...
Dec 11, 2008 |
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Addonics Announces their Network Attached Storage Adapter
(PhysOrg.com) -- Today Addonics announced their NAS (network attached storage) adapter, a low-cost way to add USB storage devices onto a local area network. The NAS adapter will permit USB storage devices ...
Dec 11, 2008 |
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A Sentiment for All Seasons: We Offer Help More Often Than Ask for It
(PhysOrg.com) -- People do act as if it is better to give than receive, but perhaps not for purely altruistic reasons, Yale researchers report.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 11, 2008 |
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Research finds koalas are no dwarves
(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Queensland research has found one of Australia's iconic animals is not a shadow of its former self.
Biology /
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