Mathematics might save you a trip to the ER
Sep 12, 2007 |
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Since the days of Hippocrates, people have known that certain illnesses come and go with the seasons. More recently, researchers have learned that these cyclic recurrences of disease, known as seasonality, are often related ...
Web site offers Large Hadron Collider info
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The U.S. Department of Energy has created a Web site focusing on the U.S. role in developing the Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator in Switzerland.
A rose is a rózsa is a 薔薇: Image-search tool speaks hundreds of languages
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 12, 2007 |
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From the fall of the Tower of Babel to the Esperanto global language movement, many humans have dreamed of sharing a common tongue. Despite the Internet's promise of global communication, language barriers ...
New study: Pine bark extract reduces ADHD symptoms in children
Sep 12, 2007 |
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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a prevailing issue in the United States, with millions of children getting diagnosed every year. A new study reveals that Pycnogenol, (pic-noj-en-all), an antioxidant plant ...
Astronomers Will Trace Planet Formation With Neon
Sep 12, 2007 |
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Astronomers have observed neon in disks of dust and gas swirling around sunlike stars for the first time.
New DNA-Based Technique For Assembly of Nano- and Micro-sized Particles
Sep 12, 2007 |
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Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a new method for controlling the self-assembly of nanometer and micrometer-sized particles.
Shape encoding may start in the retina
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New evidence from the University of Southern California suggests that there may be dedicated cells in the retina that help compile small bits of information in order to recognize objects. The research was conducted by Ernest ...
WFU professor designs atomic emission detector
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Brad Jones, a professor of chemistry at Wake Forest University, is leading a team of researchers at four institutions to develop the first handheld, field instrument capable of detecting and identifying radioactive ...
Shrinkage of prostate led to overestimation of cancer risk in trial
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Reanalysis of data from the first long-term randomized trial of a chemopreventive agent for prostate cancer shows that the excess prevalence of high-grade prostate cancer in the drug-treated group may be attributable to shrinkage ...
Dawn moves closer to the asteroid belt
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 12, 2007 |
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NASA's Dawn spacecraft has been positioned at Kennedy Space Center's launch pad 17B atop a Delta II rocket for its launch from Florida later this month.
Minor quakes no sign that San Diego's safe
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 12, 2007 |
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Seismologists say the small earthquakes that have hit Southern California in the past 10 days have no effect on the chance of a major quake.
Putting stem cell research on the fast track
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Engineers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed tools to help solve two of the main problems slowing the progress of stem cell research — how to quickly test stem cell response to different drugs ...
China's eye on the Internet
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 12, 2007 |
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The "Great Firewall of China," used by the government of the People's Republic of China to block users from reaching content it finds objectionable, is actually a "panopticon" that encourages self-censorship through the perception ...
Ecologist finds dire devastation of snake species following floods of '93, '95
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Sep 12, 2007 |
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In science, it’s best to be good, but sometimes it’s better to be lucky. Ecologist Owen Sexton, professor emeritus of biology at Washington University in St. Louis, had just completed a census of snakes at a conservation ...
Biological invasions can begin with just 1 insect
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A new study by York University biologists Amro Zayed and Laurence Packer has shown that a lone insect can initiate a biological invasion.
