Birds learn to fly with a little help from their ancestors
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A researcher at the University of Sheffield has discovered that the reason birds learn to fly so easily is because latent memories may have been left behind by their ancestors.
Meth exposure in young adults leads to long-term behavioral consequences
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Young adults who use methamphetamine may be more vulnerable to age-related brain degeneration when they grow older, new animal research suggests.
Aussie northern savanna 'largest, most intact on Earth
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A new book on Northern Australia by four of the country’s leading scientists reveals the region has the largest and least damaged tropical savanna in the world, and calls for a new approach to development and conservation ...
New imaging detectors could take snapshots from deep space
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 14, 2007 |
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Snapshots from space may someday confirm the presence of lakes and oceans on Europa—one of Jupiter’s moons—and on other planetary bodies. Imaging detectors that capture information from every wavelength in the electromagnetic ...
Year-Round Schools Don't Boost Learning, Study Finds
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Students in “year-round” schools don't learn more than their peers in traditional nine-month schools, new research has found.
Clones on task serve greater good, evolutionary study shows
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“Don’t ever change” isn’t just a romantic platitude. It’s a solid evolutionary strategy. At least if you’re among the creatures that produce scads of genetically identical offspring – like microbes, plants or water fleas. ...
Researchers seeking to understand consequences of unintended releases of H2
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The Department of Energy’s domestic FreedomCAR and Fuels presidential initiative has now gone global, and researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are playing a key role in that worldwide effort.
Scientists develop implantable telescope
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U.S. scientists are exploring the use of an implantable miniature telescope for use in end-stage age-related macular degeneration.
UCLA researchers identify markers that may predict diabetes in still-healthy people
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In the first large scale, multiethnic study of its kind, researchers at UCLA have confirmed the role played by three particular molecules known as cytokines as a cause of Type 2 diabetes, and further, have identified these ...
AMD Releases Specification Designed to Enable Real-Time Performance Optimization for Software Applications
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AMD today made available a new specification describing “Light-Weight Profiling” (LWP), a technology designed to increase the performance of software applications by providing a mechanism that allows software to more effectively ...
New study warns limited carbon market puts 20 percent of tropical forest at risk
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In an ironic twist, 11 countries that have avoided widespread destruction of their tropical forest are at risk of being left out of an emerging carbon market intended to promote rainforest conservation to combat climate change.
10 years after: Promised reform in South African telecommunications fails
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The end of apartheid in South Africa in 1994 brought the African National Congress to political power along with a mandate for reform of nearly all the nation’s institutions, including the telecommunications sector. But ...
High hopes turn poker machine players into problem gamblers
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
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There are around 300,000 problem gamblers in Australia. For gambling researchers, one of the biggest questions is why so many people seem unable to control their gambling behaviour, despite the harmful impact on their lives.
Penn researchers find diabetes drug kills some cancer cells
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Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have found that a commonly prescribed diabetes drug kills tumor cells that lack a key regulatory gene called p53. Results from current studies in mice may result ...
Sony Ericsson Intros New Cyber-Shot Phone
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Aug 14, 2007 |
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Sony Ericsson’s new K770 Cyber-shot phone, announced today, is a digital camera, a photo album and an elegant phone all in-one. Still a phone first and foremost, it allows you to send and share your photos ...
