Archive: 11/15/2007
Birds may not have clawed their way up the evolutionary tree
University of Queensland researchers have clipped the wings of the idea that the ancestors of modern birds were tree dwellers.
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Research finds similarities in dog, human breast cancer pre-malignant lesions
Pre-malignant mammary lesions in dogs and humans display many of the same characteristics, a discovery that could lead to better understanding of breast cancer progression and prevention for people and pets, said a Purdue ...
Nov 15, 2007 |
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Researcher Says a Woman's Paycheck Is Key to Determining How Much Housework She Does
In married working couples, the more money a woman earns, the less housework she will do, regardless of how much money her spouse makes, says Sanjiv Gupta, a sociologist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. That finding, ...
Nov 15, 2007 |
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Virus used to create experimental HIV vaccines directly impairs the immune response
Leading efforts to create an HIV vaccine have hinged on the use of viruses as carriers for selected elements of the HIV virus. Recently, however, evidence has emerged that some of these so-called viral vector systems may ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
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Bad to the bone: new research to shed light on osteoporosis
Ten million people in the United States are estimated to already have bone diseases, and almost 34 million more are estimated to have low bone mass, putting them at increased risk for osteoporosis, according to the National ...
Nov 15, 2007 |
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'Ultrasound' of Earth's crust reveals inner workings of a tsunami factory
Research announced this week by a team of U.S. and Japanese geoscientists may help explain why part of the seafloor near the southwest coast of Japan is particularly good at generating devastating tsunamis, ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
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Researchers reverse key symptom of muscular dystrophy
Researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center have identified a compound that eliminates myotonia – a symptom of muscular dystrophy – in mice. The study was published online today in the Journal of Clinical In ...
Nov 15, 2007 |
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Tailoring the ILC
What's the best way to dig a 72 km-long tunnel complex and install it with 2,000 cryomodules, over 13,000 magnets and approximately 540 high-level radio frequency stations? Such is the monumental question the Conventional ...
Nov 15, 2007 |
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Watching Galaxies Grow Old Gracefully
In the early 1900s, Edwin Hubble made the startling discovery that our Milky Way galaxy is not alone. It is just one of many galaxies, or "island universes," as Hubble dubbed them, swimming in the sea of space.
Nov 15, 2007 |
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IBM Introduces Ready-to-Use Cloud Computing
In Shanghai today, IBM unveiled plans for “Blue Cloud,” a series of cloud computing offerings that will allow corporate data centers to operate more like the Internet by enabling computing across a distributed, ...
Nov 15, 2007 |
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Nestle applies quantum mechanics to optimize food taste, texture, nutrition
Researchers from Nestle and the University of California have investigated the physics of food structure, and their results may help scientists create foods with optimal stability, nutrient delivery, flavors ...
Nov 15, 2007 |
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UW launches cutting-edge DNA 'fin-printing' project for salmon
Some salmon make one heck of a commute. The record holder in the Pacific Northwest, for example, is a steelhead that was tagged in the Clearwater River, Idaho, in April 2003. A year and a half later, it was ...
Biology /
Nov 15, 2007 |
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'New thinking' needed for changing terrorist threat
A groundbreaking two-year investigation into how crowded public places can best deal with the changing nature of the terrorist threat is announced today.
Nov 15, 2007 |
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Neuroscientists Uncover Brain Region Involved in Voluntary Behavior
Scientists at the California Institute of Technology have deciphered the activity of an area of the brain that could one day prove vital in the development of neural prostheses--within-the-brain implants that would translate ...
Nov 15, 2007 |
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AMD Unleashes Enthusiast Gaming Performance for the Masses with ATI Radeon HD 3800 Series
AMD today announced the introduction and immediate availability of the ATI Radeon HD 3800 Series of graphics processing units (GPU). As the world’s first series of graphics processors to deliver Microsoft’s DirectX 10.1 support, ...
Nov 15, 2007 |
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