Low-carb diets can affect dieters' cognition skills
Dec 11, 2008 |
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A new study from the psychology department at Tufts University shows that when dieters eliminate carbohydrates from their meals, they performed more poorly on memory-based tasks than when they reduce calories, but maintain ...
New theory may help design tomorrow's sustainable polymer
Dec 11, 2008 |
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Tomorrow's specialty plastics may be produced more precisely and cheaply thanks to the apparently tight merger of a theory by a University of Oregon chemist and years of unexplained data from real world experiments involving ...
Scientists watch membrane fission in real time
Dec 11, 2008 |
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Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute have solved one of biology's neatest little tricks: they have discovered how a cell's outer membrane pinches a little pouch from itself to bring molecules outside the cell inside—without ...
Digging out from piles of sticky notes: Computer scientists devise ways to organize details of everyday life
Technology / Computer Sciences
Dec 11, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Everyone has them -- little squares of colorful paper stuck on monitors, business cards strewn across desks, and to-do lists tucked away in pockets. These information scraps feature critical ...
San Diego Supercomputer Center director offers tips on data preservation in the information age
Technology / Computer Sciences
Dec 11, 2008 |
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The world has gone digital in just about everything we do. Almost every iota of information we access these days is stored in some kind of digital form and accessed electronically -- text, charts, images, video, music, you ...
Car key jams teen drivers' cell phones
Dec 11, 2008 |
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University of Utah researchers have developed an automobile ignition key that prevents teenagers from talking on cell phones or sending text messages while driving.
Important role of groundwater springs in shaping Mars
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 11, 2008 |
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Data and images from Mars Express suggest that several Light Toned Deposits, some of the least understood features on Mars, were formed when large amounts of groundwater burst on to the surface. Scientists ...
Use weights, not aerobics, to ease back pain
Dec 11, 2008 |
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People who use weight training to ease their lower back pain are better off than those who choose other forms of exercise such as jogging, according to a University of Alberta study.
Biologist modifies theory of cells' engines
Biology /
Dec 11, 2008 |
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Biologists have known for decades that cells use tiny molecular motors to move chromosomes, mitochondria, and many other organelles within the cell, but no one has been able to understand what "steers" these engines to their ...
Wobbly planets could reveal Earth-like moons
Dec 11, 2008 |
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Moons outside our Solar System with the potential to support life have just become much easier to detect, thanks to research by an astronomer at University College London (UCL).
Darwin's Dinobird Fossil Analyzed at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Dec 11, 2008 |
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(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 ...
Drama in the heart of the Tarantula
Dec 11, 2008 |
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Found in the nearby Large Magellanic Cloud, 30 Doradus is one of the largest massive star forming regions close to the Milky Way. Enormous stars in 30 Doradus, also known as the Tarantula Nebula, are producing ...
There's a life-saving medical device sitting on your sink
Dec 11, 2008 |
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Hospital-borne infections are a serious risk of a long-term hospital stay, and ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), a lung infection that develops in about 15% of all people who are ventilated, is among the most dangerous. ...
Addonics Announces their Network Attached Storage Adapter
Dec 11, 2008 |
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(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 ...
New cause of heart arrhythmia found
Dec 11, 2008 |
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A new study shows that atrial fibrillation--the most common form of sustained heart arrhythmia--can be caused in an unexpected way. Researchers report in the December 12th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication, the fi ...
