Archive: 02/14/2007
Disposable sensor uses DNA to detect hazardous uranium ions
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a simple, disposable sensor for detecting hazardous uranium ions, with sensitivity that rivals the performance of much more sophisticated laboratory ...
Feb 14, 2007 |
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LSU professor resolves Einstein's twin paradox
Subhash Kak, Delaune Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at LSU, recently resolved the twin paradox, known as one of the most enduring puzzles of modern-day physics.
Feb 14, 2007 |
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Study: Psych statistics might be improving
Australian researchers say efforts to advocate improved statistical practices in psychological research might be succeeding.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 14, 2007 |
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Mysteries of childhood cognition studied
U.S. scientists are trying to determine how children develop cognitive skills and how memory affects their judgments.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 14, 2007 |
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Doctors seek to regrow parts of fingers
Doctors at a Texas military base are testing a procedure on wounded Iraq veterans that may allow them to regrow portions of lost fingers.
Feb 14, 2007 |
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Space Shuttle Closer to Launch
Space Shuttle Atlantis was mated to the orange external tank and twin solid rocket boosters last week. The entire assembly is stacked on the mobile launcher platform and is targeted to roll out to Launch Pad ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 14, 2007 |
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Detecting Disease
Analyzing human blood for a very low virus concentration or a sample of water for a bioterrorism agent has always been a time-consuming and difficult process. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 14, 2007 |
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Study: Spinal cord can repair itself
U.S. scientists say they have disproved the long-held theory that the spinal cord is incapable of repairing itself. The Johns Hopkins University researchers say human nerve stem cells they transplanted into damaged spinal ...
Feb 14, 2007 |
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Fossilized tissue found in ancient fish
Australian scientists say fossilized muscle has been discovered in the remains of two fish that lived about 380 million years ago.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Feb 14, 2007 |
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Sperm whales return to Mediterranean
Marine biologists in Italy say the sperm whale, once thought to have been nearly wiped from the region by drift nets, has returned to the Mediterranean.
Biology /
Feb 14, 2007 |
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Fragile X protein may play role in Alzheimer’s disease
A brain afflicted by severe Alzheimer's disease is a sad sight, a wreck of tangled neural connections and organic rubble as the lingering evidence of a fierce internal battle.
Feb 14, 2007 |
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Better designed roadway intersections can boost older drivers’ performance
Changes in roadway intersection design can keep older drivers safer and on the road longer, report University of Florida researchers in the current issue of Traffic Injury Prevention.
Feb 14, 2007 |
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LIGO and Virgo Join Forces In Search for Gravitational Waves
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the Virgo interferometric gravitational-wave detector of the European Gravitational Observatory (EGO) near Pisa, Italy, have agreed to join in a collaborative ...
Feb 14, 2007 |
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Shaky Ground
University of Arkansas researchers have used measurements of tiny movements in the Earth's crust to gain a better understanding of earthquake dynamics in Nicaragua, where a large quake devastated the city of ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 14, 2007 |
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Study shows formerly blind can learn to see
How does the human brain "learn" to see? If the brain is deprived of visual input early in life, can it later learn to see at all? MIT researchers are exploring those questions by studying some unique patients--people who ...
Feb 14, 2007 |
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