Study shows formerly blind can learn to see
Feb 14, 2007 |
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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 ...
Disposable sensor uses DNA to detect hazardous uranium ions
Feb 14, 2007 |
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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 ...
Better designed roadway intersections can boost older drivers’ performance
Feb 14, 2007 |
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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.
Study: Psych statistics might be improving
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 14, 2007 |
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Australian researchers say efforts to advocate improved statistical practices in psychological research might be succeeding.
Research could produce a new class of computer chip
Feb 14, 2007 |
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A new research project at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) is aimed at developing an entirely new type of reconfigurable computing device, one that combines the speed and power efficiency of custom-designed chips with ...
The desert is dying
Feb 14, 2007 |
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Researchers from University of Bergen have found that trees, which are a main resource for desert people and their flocks, are in significant decline in the hyper-arid Eastern Desert of Egypt.
Fossilized tissue found in ancient fish
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Feb 14, 2007 |
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Australian scientists say fossilized muscle has been discovered in the remains of two fish that lived about 380 million years ago.
Mummy's amazing American maize
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Feb 14, 2007 |
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The far-reaching influence of Spanish and Portuguese colonisers appears not to have extended to South American agriculture, scientists studying a 1,400-year-old Andean mummy have found.
Fragile X protein may play role in Alzheimer’s disease
Feb 14, 2007 |
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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.
'Gateway' gene discovered for brain cancer
Feb 14, 2007 |
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Researchers have discovered that the same genetic regulator that triggers growth of stem cells during brain development also plays a central role in the development of the lethal brain cancer malignant glioma. In experiments ...
Study shows liver an excellent target for cancer gene therapy using viral vectors
Feb 14, 2007 |
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A featured paper in the February 14 issue of Nature Cancer Gene Therapy demonstrates that cancer cells in the liver are excellent targets for gene therapy using adenoviral vectors, based upon a fundamental new understanding of the ...
Space Shuttle Closer to Launch
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 14, 2007 |
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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 ...
Migration played key role in HIV spread in South Africa
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Feb 14, 2007 |
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Using data collected from nearly 500 men and women living in bustling towns and rural villages, researchers from Brown University, Harvard Medical School and Imperial College London created a mathematical model that shows ...
Sperm whales return to Mediterranean
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Feb 14, 2007 |
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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.
Shaky Ground
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 14, 2007 |
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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 ...
