Plain soap as effective as antibacterial but without the risk
Aug 15, 2007 |
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Antibacterial soaps show no health benefits over plain soaps and, in fact, may render some common antibiotics less effective, says a University of Michigan public health professor.
UCF physicist says Hollywood movies hurt students' understanding of science
Aug 15, 2007 |
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Movies such as Spiderman 2 and Speed generate excitement among audiences with their cool special effects. But they also defy the laws of physics, contributing to students’ ignorance about science.
Ultrafast quantum computer uses optically controlled electrons
Aug 15, 2007 |
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Scientists have designed a scheme to create one of the fastest quantum computers to date using light pulses to rotate electron spins, which serve as quantum bits. This technique improves the overall clock ...
Comet May Have Exploded Over North America 13,000 Years Ago
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 15, 2007 |
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New scientific findings suggest that a large comet may have exploded over North America 12,900 years ago, explaining riddles that scientists have wrestled with for decades, including an abrupt cooling of much ...
Speeding Bullet Star Leaves Enormous Streak Across Sky
Aug 15, 2007 |
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NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer has spotted a surprisingly long comet-like tail behind a star streaking through space at supersonic speeds. The star, named Mira after the Latin word for "wonderful," has been ...
Ocean 'supergyre' link to climate regulator
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 15, 2007 |
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Australian scientists have identified the missing deep ocean pathway – or ‘supergyre’ – linking the three Southern Hemisphere ocean basins in research that will help them explain more accurately how the ocean ...
Conquest of land began in shark genome
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Aug 15, 2007 |
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When the first four-legged animals sprouted fingers and toes, they took an ancient genetic recipe and simply extended the cooking time, say University of Florida scientists writing in Wednesday’s issue of the journal PLoS ...
Brains learn better at night
Aug 15, 2007 |
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If you think that the idea of a morning person or an evening person is nonsense, then postgraduate student Martin Sale and his colleagues from the University of Adelaide have news for you.
The memories you want to forget are the hardest ones to lose
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 15, 2007 |
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Painful, emotional memories that people would most like to forget may be the toughest to leave behind, especially when memories are created through visual cues, according to a new study by the University of North Carolina ...
Ancient drawing of mammoth found in Cheddar caves
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Aug 15, 2007 |
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A possible Palaeolithic engraving has been discovered at Cheddar Caves and Gorge by members of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society (UBSS).
Dominant cholesterol-metabolism ideas challenged by new research
Aug 15, 2007 |
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A team of researchers investigating cholesterol and lipid transport has performed experiments that cast serious doubt on the dominant hypothesis of how the body rids its cells of "bad" cholesterol (LDL) and ...
First biomarker discovered that predicts prostate cancer outcome
Aug 15, 2007 |
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Mayo Clinic researchers have identified the first immune molecule that appears to play a role in prostate cancer development and in predicting cancer recurrence and progression after surgery. The report on the B7-H3 molecule ...
Researchers describe new way to identify, evolve novel enzymes
Aug 15, 2007 |
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The intricate interplay of proteins and other chemicals that underlies most biological activities requires the participation of enzymes, specialized molecules that accelerate chemical reactions between molecules. The creation ...
Earth records 7th warmest July on record
Aug 15, 2007 |
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Scientists said the month of July brought record and near-record warmth to the Western United States and was the seventh warmest July in recorded Earth history.
Rare intact tomb found in Italy
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Aug 15, 2007 |
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A 2,000-year-old Etruscan tomb containing the remains of at least 16 people has been found intact in Italy's Tuscany region.
