Stanford researchers predict heat waves and crop losses in California
Dec 12, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Global warming will likely put enormous strain on California's water supply and energy systems and have a devastating impact on certain crops.
Mars Orbiter Completes First Phase of Science Mission
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 12, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has completed its primary, two-year science phase. The spacecraft has found signs of a complex Martian history of climate change that produced a diversity ...
Charting HIV's rapidly changing journey in the body
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Dec 12, 2008 |
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HIV is so deadly largely because it evolves so rapidly. With a single virus as the origin of an infection, most patients will quickly come to harbor thousands of different versions of HIV, all a little bit different and all ...
Study reveals clues to how we forget over short-term
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 12, 2008 |
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Even though forgetting is such a common occurrence, scientists have not reached a consensus as to how it happens. One theory is that information simply decays from our memory—we forget things because too much time has passed. ...
Brain enzyme may play key role in controlling appetite and weight gain
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Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have found that overactivity of a brain enzyme may play a role in preventing weight gain and obesity. The findings were reported in ...
Parkinson's disease can affect more than just the body
Dec 12, 2008 |
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Parkinson’s disease affects 6.3 million people worldwide. While the disease is recognized for its profound effects on movement, up to 40 percent of Parkinson’s disease patients also develop changes in thought, behavior and ...
'Webcam' from Space: Envisat observing Wilkins Ice Shelf
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 12, 2008 |
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In light of recent developments that threaten to lead to the break-up of the Wilkins Ice Shelf, ESA is making daily satellite images of the ice shelf available to the public via the 'Webcam' from Space web ...
Virtual organisations become a reality
Technology / Computer Sciences
Dec 12, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have developed a suite of tools that make it simple, safe and secure to deploy grid computer systems across corporations and throughout the supply chain. The work means ...
Whispering bats are 100 times louder than previously thought
Biology /
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Annemarie Surlykke from the University of Southern Denmark is fascinated by echolocation. She really wants to know how it works. Surlykke equates the ultrasound cries that bats use for echolocation with the beam of light ...
New text focuses on formidable opportunistic fungus
Biology /
Dec 12, 2008 |
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Modern medical technologies are repairing the human body in ways never imagined only a few years ago, but they are leaving an increasing population of patients who are newly susceptible to opportunistic pathogens. Invasive ...
On the trail of polar lows
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 12, 2008 |
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This has made it possible to determine, for the first time, the frequency of such polar lows in the past.
Weight room may hold key to easing back pain
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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.
Climate-change set-back for acidified rivers
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Climate change is hampering the long-term recovery of rivers from the effects of acid rain, as wet weather counteracts improvements, according to a new study by Cardiff University.
Dwarf crocodiles split into three species
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Dec 12, 2008 |
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You'd think that if scientists were to discover a new species, it would be in some remote, uncharted tropical forest, not a laboratory in New York. But a team from the Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics ...
Molecules in the spotlight
Dec 12, 2008 |
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A novel x-ray technique allowing the observation of molecular motion on a time scale never reached before has been developed by a team of researchers from EPFL and the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Switzerland. Results ...
