Archive: 07/13/2007
Short list announced for $500M lab
Sites in Kansas, Georgia, Mississippi, Texas and North Carolina are being considered as the possible site of a $500 million U.S. Homeland Security research lab.
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The Vatican to go carbon neutral
The Vatican has agreed to become the first entirely carbon neutral sovereign state.
Jul 13, 2007 |
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Overweight child removed from home
A mother in northwest England is fighting to get her 8-year-old daughter back after the town council removed the girl because she was extremely overweight.
Jul 13, 2007 |
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U.S. sales of morning-after pill double
Sales of the morning-after pill Plan B in the United States have doubled since it was made available without a prescription.
Medicine & Health / Medications
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Selenium Supplements May Increase the Risk of Type 2 Diabetes
Selenium, an antioxidant included in multivitamin tablets thought to have a possible protective effect against the development of type 2 diabetes, may actually increase the risk of developing the disease, an analysis by researchers ...
Jul 13, 2007 |
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NTT DoCoMo Begins Super 3G Experiment
NTT DoCoMo, Inc. announced today that this month it began testing an experimental Super 3G system for mobile communications. With this experiment, DoCoMo will seek to achieve a downlink transmission rate of 300Mbps over a ...
Jul 13, 2007 |
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Depression lingers for female heart attack victims
Women who have suffered heart attacks have higher rates of lingering depressive symptoms compared to their male counterparts, a University of Alberta and McGill University study shows.
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On a wire or in a fiber, a wave is a wave
In an experiment modeled on the classic “Young’s double slit experiment” and published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, researchers have powerfully reinforced the understanding that surface plasmon polari ...
Jul 13, 2007 |
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Children with Tourette's quicker at certain mental grammar skills
Children with Tourette’s syndrome may have to put up with some unwanted movement and verbal tics, but neuroscientists at Georgetown University Medical Center and the Kennedy Krieger Institute have found that they are much ...
Jul 13, 2007 |
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Cosmetic eye enhancer leads to disfigurement when not injected deeply
According to a new study in Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology, polylactic acid (PLA), used as a cosmetic enhancement to decrease volume loss around the eyes, leads to disfigurement when not injected properly. The authors review ...
Jul 13, 2007 |
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Geologists witness unique volcanic mudflow in action in New Zealand
Volcanologist Sarah Fagents from the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) at the University of Hawaii at Manoa had an amazing opportunity to study volcanic hazards first hand, when a volcanic ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 13, 2007 |
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Major breakthrough in understanding how HIV interferes with infected cell division
Dr. Éric A. Cohen, a researcher at the IRCM (Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal), and his team will publish on Friday, July 13, in PLoS Pathogens a discovery that could lead to the development of a new class of dru ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
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Nodal status is best predictor of outcome after neoadjuvant therapy for esophageal cancer
The number of lymph nodes that contain evidence of cancer is the best predictor of the effectiveness of adding chemotherapy and radiation to a treatment plan prior to surgery in individuals with oesophageal cancer, according ...
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Californians urged to help reduce spread of Sudden Oak Death
An update on the increased spread of Sudden Oak Death, a plant disease devastating many of California's coastal oak and tanoak trees, and information on what Californians can do to help reduce its spread will be presented ...
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Chromosome glue repairs damaged DNA
When a strand of DNA breaks in the body's cells, it normally does not take long until it has been repaired. Now researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have discovered a new mechanism that helps ...
Biology /
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