Why do some people gain weight when others don't?
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Do you have that friend—the one who can eat endless hot fudge sundaes and never gain weight? Or do you sometimes feel that even if you worked out three hours a day and ate nothing but celery sticks, you couldn't ...
Earliest evidence for large scale organized warfare in the Mesopotamian world
Dec 16, 2005 |
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A huge battle destroyed one of the world's earliest cities at around 3500 B.C. and left behind, preserved in their places, artifacts from daily life in an urban settlement in upper Mesopotamia, according to a joint announcement ...
Model Predicts Colder Winter Temperatures in the East, Warmer in the West
Dec 16, 2005 |
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According to a model developed by atmospheric scientist Judah Cohen of Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER), Inc., temperatures during Dec., Jan., and Feb. will be cold in the eastern United States ...
Theory and Experiment Collide: Discovery of Phenomenon Important for Future Application of 'Spintronics'
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A few years ago a University of Missouri-Columbia professor and his student had a theory, and a few weeks ago a physicist in California proved it. The unusual part is that neither person knew about the work of the other. ...
Ability to capture large prey may be origin of army ants' cooperative behavior
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Scientific insights come at the darnedest times. Animal behaviorist Sean O'Donnell was having an afternoon cup of coffee when a giant earthworm exploded out of the leaf litter covering the jungle floor in an ...
Perseus Spiral Arm of the Milky Way much closer than thought
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The Perseus spiral arm, the nearest spiral arm in the Milky Way outside the Sun's orbit, lies only half as far from Earth as some previous results had suggested. An international team of astronomers including ...
Scientist: Kong Lives!
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Cinematically, at least, King Kong crashes into the American imagination about every three decades, and he's wreaking havoc again in theaters starting this week. Gregg Mitman, professor of the history of science ...
Fish gene sheds light on human skin color variation mystery
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The genetic determination of human skin color is one of biology's enduring mysteries. With help from a common aquarium pet and a recently released online database of human genetic variation, a collaborative ...
Making the world's smallest gadgets even smaller
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You may not have noticed, but the smallest revolution in world history is under way. Laboratories and factories have begun to make medical sensors and computer-chip components smaller than a single blood cell ...
Typhus found in DNA from Napoleonic troops
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University of the Mediterranean scientists have found evidence of typhus and trench fever in pulp from the teeth of Napoleonic soldiers.
New Microlab on Chip for Medical Imaging Biomarkers
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A collaboration among scientists at UCLA, the California Institute of Technology, Stanford, Siemens and Fluidigm has developed a new technology using integrated microfluidic chips for simplifying, lowering ...
Sea slug mixes chemical defense before firing at predators
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When threatened by predators, sea slugs defend themselves by ejecting a potent inky secretion into the water consisting of hydrogen peroxide, ammonia and several types of acids. A team of researchers with the ...
Pulsar Racing Through Space Reveals Comet-Like Trail
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A team led by Dr. Patrizia Caraveo of the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) in Milan discovered this cometary trail with data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory Archive. The discovery follows ...
New project on ferroelectric films: Cheaper, smaller and less energy consuming components for laptops, mobiles
Dec 16, 2005 |
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Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, has together with five European partners started a three year project, Nanostar, for mastering of nanostructured multifunctional ferroelectric films for low cost mass ...
Study: Perception affects batting average
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University of Virginia scientists say a baseball player's batting average correlates with the player's ability to perceive ball size.
