Archive: 12/13/2006
Social Psychologist Debunks Myths of Singles and Singlehood
The holidays can be a difficult time for single people. Friends and family, convinced that singles would give up their solo status in a heartbeat if the right person came along, often try to steer them down the road to holy ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 13, 2006 |
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Rice takes zeolite design Into 21st century using TeraGrid
A room's design helps define how people interact inside it, and it's much the same in the molecular world. The atomic layout of molecular spaces can provoke very different reactions from chemicals that meet there, in much ...
Dec 13, 2006 |
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Prof: Mute television during family time, holidays
Too much television during the holidays can mean less face time with family members and friends, says a Purdue University communication researcher.
Dec 13, 2006 |
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Plant a tree and save the Earth?
Can planting a tree stop the sea level from rising, the ice caps from melting and hurricanes from intensifying?
Dec 13, 2006 |
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Moderate drinking may help older women live longer
A study published in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society finds that moderate alcohol intake (1-2 drinks/day for 3-6 days/week, depending on alcoholic content) may lead to increased quality of life and survival in older ...
Dec 13, 2006 |
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Sharp Develops Basic Technology for RRAM, Next-Generation Nonvolatile Memory
Sharp Corporation has developed basic technology for a novel high-speed programming system for RRAM (Resistance Random Access Memory), a next-generation nonvolatile memory capable of programming data at rates about 100 times ...
Dec 13, 2006 |
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Fujitsu Introduces World's First 300 GB 2.5" SATA Hard Disk Drive
Fujitsu Limited today announced the development of the world's first 2.5" hard disk drive that offers storage capacity of 300 gigabytes (GB) with a Serial ATA interface. The new hard disk drive "MHX2300BT" ...
Dec 13, 2006 |
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Brain’s 'fear center' may underlie autistic behaviors
The brain's emotional center is unusually small in autistic males with the most severe behavioral impairments, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers reported this month.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 13, 2006 |
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Scientists find potential weapon against tuberculosis infection
The discovery of a unique copper-repressing protein in the bacterium that causes tuberculosis in humans may pave the way toward new strategies for halting tuberculosis infection.
Dec 13, 2006 |
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Embryonic stem cells do better on bumpy nanoscale mattress
Nothing in the cellular world is flat. Even the flattest of basement membranes has topography; bumps, if you like, beneath the cellular mattress.
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Dec 13, 2006 |
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Soil nutrition affects carbon sequestration in forests
On December 11, USDA Forest Service (FS) scientists from the FS Southern Research Station (SRS) unit in Research Triangle Park, NC, along with colleagues from Duke University, published two papers in The Pr ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 13, 2006 |
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Nano design adjustment may help find, clear some water contaminants
Experiments designed to test discrepancies in theoretical computational chemistry have turned up a barely two-angstrom difference that may lead to a new approach to locate and remove dangerous toxins such as ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Dec 13, 2006 |
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Turning 'delayed' to 'on time' goal of UH professor in aircraft turbulence studies
Gridlock on airport runways is a common part of holiday travel, but one University of Houston engineering professor is researching ways to reduce airport delays by making runways usable more quickly.
Dec 13, 2006 |
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Identification of carbon dioxide receptors in insects may help fight infectious disease
Mosquitoes don’t mind morning breath. They use the carbon dioxide people exhale as a way to identify a potential food source. But when they bite, they can pass on a number of dangerous infectious diseases, ...
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Study finds oysters can take heat and heavy metals, but not both
Pollution is bad for the sea life and so is global warming, but aquatic organisms can be resilient. However, even organisms tough enough to survive one major onslaught may find that a double whammy is more than their molecular ...
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