Antarctic life hung by a thread during ice ages
Feb 15, 2008 |
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Frozen in time... frozen in place... frozen solid... All of these phrases have been used to describe Antarctica, and yet they all belie the truth about this southerly point on the globe. Although the area is covered in ...
Worldwide effort bringing ALMA telescope into reality
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In the thin, dry air of northern Chile's Atacama Desert, at an altitude of 16,500 feet, an amazing new telescope system is taking shape, on schedule to provide the world's astronomers with unprecedented views of the origins ...
Learning about brains from computers, and vice versa
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For many years, Tomaso Poggio’s lab at MIT ran two parallel lines of research. Some projects were aimed at understanding how the brain works, using complex computational models. Others were aimed at improving the abilities ...
Early warning: PSA testing can predict advanced prostate cancer
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Researchers who showed that a single prostate specific antigen (PSA) test at age 50 or under could predict the presence of prostate cancer up to 25 years later, (regardless of clinical significance) have now found that a ...
New Nanotube Findings Give Boost to Potential Biomedical Applications
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 15, 2008 |
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Carbon nanotubes have shown real promise as highly accurate vehicles for delivering antitumor agents into malignant cells, but a dearth of data about what happens to the tubes after they discharge their medical payloads has ...
Small graphene wires may be poor conductors
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Ohio University physicists researching electron properties in graphene ribbons have found that narrow wires made of this material may not be good conductors.
Bottom trawling impacts, clearly visible from space
Biology /
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Bottom trawling, an industrial fishing method that drags large, heavy nets across the seafloor stirs up huge, billowing plumes of sediment on shallow seafloors that can be seen from space.
Coal gasification -- myths, challenges and opportunities
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There is a growing consensus that increased demand for electricity will cement coal’s place in the energy portfolio for years to come. In fact, more than half of the electricity produced in the United States ...
Researcher finds direct democracy in science too much of a good thing
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Publicly funded science in America traditionally is accountable to the people and their government representatives. However, this arrangement raises questions regarding the effect such oversight has on science.
Researchers study widespread areas of low oxygen off northwest coast
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 15, 2008 |
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A team of scientists studying the California Current – a slow-moving mass of cold water that travels south along the coast from British Columbia to Baja California – are seeing increasing areas of water off Washington and ...
Scientists develop tool to probe role of oxidative stress in aging, disease
Feb 15, 2008 |
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Oxygen, although essential for human life, can turn into an aggressive chemical that is outright toxic to important molecules inside our cells. This "oxidative stress" is associated with many diseases, such as Alzheimer's, ...
Being Overweight May Raise Cancer Risk
Feb 15, 2008 |
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Researchers from the University of Manchester, Christie Hospital and University of Bern in Switzerland have today published findings in the Lancet medical journal which further support the link between obesity and risk of ...
'Women and children first': Men, statistics show your best chance is on the port side
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 15, 2008 |
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If you were a man on the Titanic, which side of the ship would have given you the best chance of making it into a lifeboat -- and surviving?
Yes, no, maybe so: New model helps identify what works in mental health treatment
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 15, 2008 |
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In a race to achieve accountability and credibility, the mental health profession has looked to develop evidence-based treatments (EBTs) — psychotherapeutic procedures that have been shown in empirical research to work for ...
Professor links psychological research to practice
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 15, 2008 |
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New research by a University of Tennessee, Knoxville, psychology professor aims to bridge the gap between how psychotherapy is studied in laboratory research settings, and how it is actually conducted in real-world clinical ...
