Women who breastfeed for more than a year halve their risk of rheumatoid arthritis
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Women who breast feed for longer have a smaller chance of getting rheumatoid arthritis, suggests a study published online ahead of print in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases.
Archaeologist uses satellite imagery to explore ancient Mexico
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 13, 2008 |
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Satellite imagery obtained from NASA will help archeologist Bill Middleton peer into the ancient Mexican past. In a novel archeological application, multi- and hyperspectral data will help build the most accurate and most ...
Businesspeople Who Are Too Sure Of Their Abilities Are Less Savvy Entrepreneurs: New Study
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
May 13, 2008 |
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Apprentice-style entrepreneurs who have an inflated sense of their own abilities may jump into new business ventures with insufficient regard for the competition and the size of the market, new research has found.
Argonne scientists use lasers to align molecules
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Protein crystallographers have only scratched the surface of the human proteins important for drug interactions because of difficulties crystallizing the molecules for synchrotron x-ray diffraction.
New Analysis Shows Important Slowdown in Lake Tahoe Clarity Loss
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For the first time since researchers began continuously measuring Lake Tahoe's famed water clarity 40 years ago, UC Davis scientists reported today that the historical rate of decline in the lake's clarity has slowed considerably ...
Researchers find link between psychological stress and overeating
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
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Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, have found socially subordinate female rhesus macaques over consume calorie-rich foods at a significantly higher level than do dominant females.
DNA fingerprinting simplified
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Agarose gel electrophoresis? Most teenagers wouldn’t have a clue what this scientific term means, but middle school student Andrew Trigiano knows the protocol inside and out. When Andrew was 12, his father ...
Fecal microorganisms inhabit sandy beaches of Florida
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Traditionally, the cleanliness of a beach is monitored by sampling the bathing water a few meters from shore. But since sand is an effective filter, it follows that fecal bacteria (those from sewage) may be concentrated in ...
Too hot to handle! Scientists identify heat sensing regulator
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Neuroscientists at Johns Hopkins are a step closer to understanding pain sensitivity - specifically why it’s variable instead of constant - having identified a gene that regulates a heat-activated molecular sensor. Their ...
Research shines spotlight on a key player in the dance of chromosomes
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Cell division is essential to life, but the mechanism by which emerging daughter cells organize and divvy up their genetic endowments is little understood. In a new study, researchers at the University of Illinois and Columbia ...
Scientists discover small RNAs that regulate gene expression and protect the genome
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RNA is best known as a working copy of the DNA sequence of genes. In this role, it’s a carrier of the genes’ instructions to the cell, which manufactures proteins according to information in the RNA molecule.
Chronic disease management: Does it improve health and save money?
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A study published in the May/June issue of Health Affairs reports on the first randomized trial providing a scientifically valid look at what one might expect from chronic disease management programs that serve low-income indivi ...
Hyperactivity is associated with decreased numbers of interneurons
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A new study published in Biological Psychiatry on May 15th is “another example of how basic science research conducted in animals may help to identify new molecular targets that may be studied for the treatment or even p ...
Satellite communications by laser
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
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Satellites currently use radio waves to exchange data. Now the data rate has been increased a hundredfold by using lasers instead of radio signals. Two test satellites each carried a diode laser pump module developed with ...
Study: Most female child molesters were victims of sexual abuse
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A University of Georgia study that is the first to systematically examine a large sample of female child molesters finds that many of them were themselves victims of sexual abuse as children.
