Leibniz Prize winners 2007 announced
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The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation, DFG) has announced the winners of its 2007 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize. At its meeting on 7 December 2006, the DFG Joint Committee named ten scientists ...
The 2006 Geminid Meteor Shower
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The best meteor shower of the year peaks this week on Dec. 13th and 14th.
For crickets, parasitic flies can stop the music
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Love hurts — really bad, for some unlucky crickets, anyway. Male crickets draw not only females with their songs but also parasitic flies. The uninvited guests then deposit larvae that burrow into their amorous hosts, grow ...
Soil nutrition affects carbon sequestration in forests
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
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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 ...
Heavy smokers who cut back still take in more toxins than light smokers
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[B]U of MN study shows heavy smokers compensate for less cigarettes[/B] University of Minnesota tobacco researchers have found that heavy smokers who reduce their number of daily cigarettes still take in ...
Wild tigers need cat food
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A landmark study by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) says tigers living in one of India’s best-run national parks lose nearly a quarter of their population each year from poaching ...
Turning 'delayed' to 'on time' goal of UH professor in aircraft turbulence studies
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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.
Study shows out laughter is contagious
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Laughter is said to be contagious and now British scientists studying how the brain responds to emotive sounds believe they understand why.
Moderate drinking may help older women live longer
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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 ...
Rice takes zeolite design Into 21st century using TeraGrid
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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 ...
Coral stress 'like never in history'
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Large scale coral die-offs are now occurring more frequently than at any time in the last 11 000 years, according to a new study by Australian-based scientists.
New means of predicting populations more accurately accounts for random influences
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By studying the ways of little jar-bound cannibals — tiny flour beetles who like to eat their young — scientists at Rockefeller University have created techniques they believe are the best yet to capture how random “noise” ...
Embryonic stem cells do better on bumpy nanoscale mattress
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Dec 13, 2006 |
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Nothing in the cellular world is flat. Even the flattest of basement membranes has topography; bumps, if you like, beneath the cellular mattress.
NASA ice images aid study of Pacific walrus arctic habitats
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The Arctic ice pack is home to thousands of Pacific walrus. Their preferred habitat is an ice floe that has enough density and surface area to support a herd of 12-foot-long, 3,000 pound mammals. In the spring, walrus ‘haul ...
Case Western Reserve University biologists suspect lightning fires help preserve oak forests
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Oak forests may be approaching extinction, but lightning fires may play a vital role in their regeneration, according to Case Western Reserve University biologists.
