Brain2Robot
Nov 12, 2007 |
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People who suffer from paralysis are confronted with many situations in which they need a helping hand.
Chimps dig up clues to human past?
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One of the keys enabling the earliest human ancestors to trade a forest home for more open country may have been the ability to gather underground foods. Now a team of scientists reports for the first time ...
Brain matures a few years late in ADHD, but follows normal pattern
Nov 12, 2007 |
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In youth with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), the brain matures in a normal pattern but is delayed three years in some regions, on average, compared to youth without the disorder, an imaging ...
Eating your greens could prove life-saving if a heart attack strikes
Nov 12, 2007 |
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A diet rich in leafy vegetables may minimize the tissue damage caused by heart attacks, according to researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. Their findings, published in the November ...
Synthetic compound promotes death of lung-cancer cells, tumors
Nov 12, 2007 |
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Human lung-cancer tumors grown in mice have been shown to regress or disappear when treated with a synthetic compound that mimics the action of a naturally occurring “death-promoting” protein found in cells, researchers at ...
DNA advances fuel racism fears
Nov 12, 2007 |
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New developments in genetics are advancing medicine, but some scientists and advocates fear they could be misinterpreted as support for racist theories.
'Dragon's blood' quenches stomach ulcer bacteria
Nov 12, 2007 |
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“Dragon’s blood” may sound like an exotic ingredient in a witch’s brew or magic potion. But researchers in China are reporting that the material — which is actually a bright red plant sap used for thousands ...
Eating fish, omega-3 oils, fruits and veggies lowers risk of memory problems
Nov 12, 2007 |
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A diet rich in fish, omega-3 oils, fruits and vegetables may lower your risk of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, whereas consuming omega-6 rich oils could increase chances of developing memory problems, according to a study ...
Large Hadron Collider: VELO -- in you go!
Nov 12, 2007 |
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One of the most fragile detectors for the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment has been successfully installed in its final position. LHCb is one of four large experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), ...
Yellowstone viruses 'jump' between hot pools
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Nov 12, 2007 |
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A population study of microbes in Yellowstone National Park hot pools suggests viruses might be buoyed by steam to distant pools. The result, to be published online next week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of ...
Chocolate drinks - probably fermented ones - popular long before previously thought, says anthropologist
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 12, 2007 |
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Mesoamerican menus featured cacao beverages - probably fermented ones - at least as early as 1100 B.C., some 500 years earlier than previously documented anywhere, according to new research published in the ...
In the Blink of a Hurricane's Eye
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 12, 2007 |
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Meteorologists' jaws dropped as Hurricane Humberto slammed the Texas shore early morning September 13, 2007. At first just a nameless tropical depression, the storm marshaled 85 mph winds and heavy rains in ...
Clues To Wrinkles May Be Found In Facial Bone Structure
Nov 12, 2007 |
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There's a new wrinkle in the battle against looking old: doctors have discovered it's not gravity that's pulling your skin down -- it may be your shifting bone structure.
Tracking Flow with Smart Dust
Nov 12, 2007 |
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Tiny probes packed with instrumentation have been turned loose in a laboratory in France.
IBM's Blue Gene Pulls Away from the Pack
Nov 12, 2007 |
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IBM’s Blue Gene/L supercomputer sprinted to a new world record as it continued its four-year domination of the official TOP500 Supercomputer Sites list. The world’s fastest computer at Lawrence Livermore National ...
