Archive: 11/14/2006
Wireless energy could power consumer, industrial electronics
Recharging your laptop computer -- and also your cell phone and a variety of other gadgets -- might one day be doable in the same convenient way many people now surf the Web: wirelessly.
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Adult pig stem cells repair heart damage
U.S. scientists have successfully grown large numbers of stem cells from adult pigs' heart tissue and used the cells to repair heart attack damage.
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Scientists study early childhood diarrhea
U.S. and Brazilian scientists say a gene linked with Alzheimer's disease may protect children from development problems of early childhood diarrhea.
Nov 14, 2006 |
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Free article by Nobel laureate available
The U.S. journal Molecular and Cellular Proteomics has made an article published by Nobel Laureate Andrew Fire available free to the public.
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New type of home furnace to be introduced
There's a new fad starting, which might eventually prove to be more a revolution than a fad: an efficient furnace that also generates electricity.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
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Honey, I shrunk the carbon nanotubes
U.S. scientists say they have developed a method of controllably altering the diameter of individual carbon nanotubes.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
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Study: Getting more shelf life out of milk
U.S. researchers say they have found a way to kill harmful bacteria in milk while increasing its shelf life without introducing off-flavors.
Nov 14, 2006 |
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Experts debate Internet addiction
Experts have questioned whether Internet addiction constitutes a psychological disorder and an Arlington, Va., group may add it to its diagnostic manual.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 14, 2006 |
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New oil spill cleanup technology developed
U.S. scientists say they have developed a new technology for cleaning oil spills on oceans, lakes and other waterways.
Nov 14, 2006 |
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Leonardo's cellar dissection studio opened
The underground chamber in Florence, Italy, where Leonardo da Vinci dissected human corpses and animals has been opened briefly for scientific exploration.
Nov 14, 2006 |
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NASA keeps ISS crew busy
NASA said the International Space Station crew was busy Tuesday with spacewalk preps, including spacesuit sizing and servicing.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
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Taking 'Chips' to the Next Level of Gene Hunting
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins’ High Throughput Biology Center have invented two new gene “chip” technologies that can be used to help identify otherwise elusive disease-causing mutations in the 97 percent of the genome ...
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Sticky proteins provide new insight into drug action
How drugs such as adrenalin do primarily one thing – in this case, increase the heart rate – now makes more sense to scientists. "Any time you get a sudden jolt, adrenaline (a.k.a. epinephrine) is why your ...
Nov 14, 2006 |
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Math model could aid study of collagen ailments
An MIT researcher's mathematical model explains for the first time the distinctive structure of collagen, a material key to healthy human bone, muscles and other tissues. The new model shows collagen's structure from the ...
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Saving Space: Latitude’s not Enough
According to a recent study in Ecological Monographs, predicting the impact of climate change on organisms is much more complicated than simply looking at species northern and southern range limits.
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