Scientists learn from nature to split water
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An international team of researchers led by Monash University has used chemicals found in plants to replicate a key process in photosynthesis paving the way to a new approach that uses sunlight to split water into hydrogen ...
Toward Plastic Spin Transistors
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Utah physicists successfully controlled an electrical current using the "spin" within electrons – a step toward building an organic "spin transistor": a plastic semiconductor ...
Study examines the psychology behind students who don't cheat
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Aug 17, 2008 |
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While many studies have examined cheating among college students, new research looks at the issue from a different perspective – identifying students who are least likely to cheat.
Newly detected air pollutant mimics damaging effects of cigarette smoke
Aug 17, 2008 |
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A previously unrecognized group of air pollutants could have effects remarkably similar to harmful substances found in tobacco smoke, Louisiana scientists are reporting in a study scheduled for presentation ...
1918 flu antibodies resurrected from elderly survivors
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Ninety years after the sweeping destruction of the 1918 flu pandemic, researchers at Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt have recovered antibodies to the virus – from elderly survivors of the original outbreak.
Largest study of its kind implicates gene abnormalities in bipolar disorder
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A large genetic study of bipolar disorder has implicated machinery that balances levels of sodium and calcium in neurons. The disorder was associated with variation in two genes that make components of such ion channels. ...
Adults easily fooled by children's false denials
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Aug 17, 2008 |
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Adults are easily fooled when a child denies that an actual event took place, but do somewhat better at detecting when a child makes up information about something that never happened, according to new research from the University ...
Cataloguing invisible life: Microbe genome emerges from lake sediment
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When entrepreneurial geneticist Craig Venter sailed around the world on his yacht sequencing samples of seawater, it was an ambitious project to use genetics to understand invisible ecological communities. ...
Playing video games offers learning across life span, say studies
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Aug 17, 2008 |
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Certain types of video games can have beneficial effects, improving gamers' dexterity as well as their ability to problem-solve – attributes that have proven useful not only to students but to surgeons, according to research ...
Suicidal thoughts among college students more common than expected
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Aug 17, 2008 |
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More than half of 26,000 students across 70 colleges and universities who completed a survey on suicidal experiences reported having at least one episode of suicidal thinking at some point in their lives. Furthermore, 15 ...
Antidepressants may impair driving ability, new research finds
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Aug 17, 2008 |
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People taking prescription antidepressants appear to drive worse than people who aren't taking such drugs, and depressed people on antidepressants have even more trouble concentrating and reacting behind the wheel.
Hydrogels provide scaffolding for growth of bone cells
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Hyaluronic hydrogels developed by Carnegie Mellon University researchers may provide a suitable scaffolding to enable bone regeneration. The hydrogels, created by Newell Washburn, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski and Jeffrey Hollinger, ...
Chemists move closer toward developing safer, fully-synthetic form of heparin
Aug 17, 2008 |
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Chemists are reporting a major advance toward developing a safer, fully-synthetic version of heparin, the widely used blood thinner now produced from pig intestines. The U. S. Food and Drug Administration last spring linked ...
Improved technique determines structure in membrane proteins
Aug 17, 2008 |
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Understanding the form and function of certain proteins in the human body is becoming faster and easier, thanks to the work of researchers at the University of Illinois.
Heads-up study of hair dynamics may lead to better hair-care products
Aug 17, 2008 |
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From frizzy perms to over-bleached waves, "bad hair days" could soon become a less frequent occurrence. Chemists report the first detailed microscopic analysis of what happens to individual hair fibers when ...
