MIT math model could aid natural gas production
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MIT engineers have developed a mathematical model that could help energy companies produce natural gas more efficiently and ensure a more reliable supply of this valuable fuel.
COROT and the new chapter of planetary searches
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The launch of COROT on 21 December 2006 is a long awaited event in the quest to find planets beyond our Solar System. Searching from above the Earth's atmosphere, COROT – the CNES project with ESA participation ...
Experts debate Internet addiction
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
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Experts have questioned whether Internet addiction constitutes a psychological disorder and an Arlington, Va., group may add it to its diagnostic manual.
Saving Space: Latitude’s not Enough
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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.
Pattern of Human Ebola Outbreaks Linked to Wildlife and Climate
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A visiting biologist at the University of California, San Diego and her colleagues in Africa and Britain have shown that there are close linkages between outbreaks of Ebola hemorrhagic fever in human and wildlife ...
New way to combat cancer
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In many forms of cancer the tumor encounters a lack of oxygen, a condition that the tumor tries to prevent in various ways. A research group with its base at Lund University in Sweden is now presenting findings that may make ...
Games players get a better image
Technology / Computer Sciences
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Geometric algebra makes it easier for scientists to solve complex three-dimensional problems. Geomerics uses it to make computer games much more realistic.
First Far Eastern Leopard Captured in Southeast Russia
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Just three days after catching a Siberian tiger in the Russian Far East, an international team led by biologists from the Wildlife Conservation Society captured another species last week that carries the dubious distinction ...
To Prevent Airport Terror Strengthen Screening of All Travelers
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The best way to prevent airborne terrorist attacks may be to improve the baseline security screening of all air travelers rather than identifying and screening high-risk passengers, according to new research by experts at ...
Leonardo's cellar dissection studio opened
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The underground chamber in Florence, Italy, where Leonardo da Vinci dissected human corpses and animals has been opened briefly for scientific exploration.
Free article by Nobel laureate available
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The U.S. journal Molecular and Cellular Proteomics has made an article published by Nobel Laureate Andrew Fire available free to the public.
Beijing bans red-yolk duck eggs
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Health officials in China say ducks that produce some red-yolk salted eggs are being fed a cancer-causing chemical to create the color.
New Technology Expected To Help Rapidly Identify Avian Flu Strains
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Scientists from the University of Colorado at Boulder and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta have developed a novel "gene chip" based on a single influenza virus gene that is expected to allow scientists ...
Adult pig stem cells repair heart damage
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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.
Global strategy for investigating Earth's geodynamics emerges from international collaboration
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
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Fifty-one researchers, prominent Earth scientists representing 15 countries, gathered recently in Switzerland to forge a global strategy for advancing understanding of continental rifting and break-up through the use of a ...
