Resolving international copyright
Apr 17, 2008 |
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Publishers commonly profit from the creative works of their freelance contributors not only in the traditional print format, but increasingly digitally through websites, databases, and multimedia output and through syndication ...
Researchers uncover details about how dietary restriction slows down aging
Apr 17, 2008 |
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University of Washington scientists have uncovered details about the mechanisms through which dietary restriction slows the aging process. Working in yeast cells, the researchers have linked ribosomes, the protein-making ...
Lakes of meltwater can crack Greenland's ice and contribute to faster ice sheet flow
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 17, 2008 |
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Researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and the University of Washington (UW) have for the first time documented the sudden and complete drainage of a lake of meltwater from the top ...
Locating a 'Free Choice' Brain Circuit
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Your brain gets a better workout when you change your routine, say scientists at the California Institute of Technology who have pinpointed one particular circuit that activates your ability to execute a decision. This finding ...
Researchers discover critical detail of cellular defense against genetic mistakes
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Researchers are closing in on a completed diagram of how human cells protect themselves against constant genetic mistakes that contribute to most diseases, according to a study to be published in the April 18 edition of the ...
Antidepressants enhance neuronal plasticity in the visual system
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In the April 18 issue of Science, scientists from the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy and the Neuroscience Centre at the University of Helsinki, Finland, provide new information about the mechanism of action of ant ...
The Moon and the Magnetotail
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 17, 2008 |
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Behold the full Moon. Ancient craters and frozen lava seas lie motionless under an airless sky of profound quiet. It's a slow-motion world where even a human footprint may last millions of years. Nothing ever ...
URI analysis of rare textiles from Honduras ruins suggests Mayans produced fine fabrics
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 17, 2008 |
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Very few textiles from the Mayan culture have survived, so the treasure trove of fabrics excavated from a tomb at the Copán ruins in Honduras since the 1990s has generated considerable excitement.
Probing question: Is the mid-life crisis a myth?
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 17, 2008 |
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Admit it — when you see a middle-aged man sliding behind the wheel of his sleek new convertible, you aren't thinking, "Wow, he must have gotten a nice raise." No, the phrase crossing your mind is "mid-life crisis."
New details presented in outbreak in pork processing plant workers
Apr 17, 2008 |
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New details on the neurological illness that has affected workers at several pork processing plants will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology’s 60th Anniversary Annual Meeting in Chicago, April 12–19, 2008. The ...
Charting the epigenome
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Until recently, the chemical marks littering the DNA inside our cells like trees dotting a landscape could only be studied one gene at a time. But new high-throughput DNA sequencing technology has enabled researchers at the ...
Wanted: 40,000 more health IT professionals
Apr 17, 2008 |
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If the U.S. healthcare system moves toward wider adoption of advanced information technology systems to control health care costs, reduce medical errors and improve patient care, it will need at least 40,000 additional health ...
Self-repairing materials
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Will the day come when cracks in buildings close up without external help and before they get to the stage where they cause damage to the component? This might appear utopia, but it already occurs in nature. When a person ...
Aerodynamic trailer cuts fuel and emissions by up to 15 percent
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Creating an improved aerodynamic shape for truck trailers by mounting sideskirts can lead to a cut in fuel consumption and emissions of up to as much as 15%. Earlier promising predictions, based on mathematical ...
Mice Can Sense Oxygen Through Skin
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Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have discovered that the skin of mice can sense low levels of oxygen and regulate the production of erythropoietin, or EPO, the hormone that stimulates ...
