Archive: 10/17/2007
Taiwan names small astral body
Astronomers in Taiwan have named a small astral body they discovered between Mars and Jupiter Chiayi after the county where their observatory is located.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 17, 2007 |
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Bacteria tied to 19,000 U.S. deaths
A study of a virulent drug-resistant bacterium has tied the infection to nearly 19,000 U.S. deaths in 2005.
Oct 17, 2007 |
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Toddlers link new words to whole objects
A U.S. psychologist says young toddlers look at whole objects rather than parts when learning new words.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 17, 2007 |
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Science with Integral -- 5 years on
With eyes that peer into the most energetic phenomena in the universe, ESA’s Integral has been setting records, discovering the unexpected and helping understanding the unknown over its first five years.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 17, 2007 |
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Acid oceans warning
The world’s oceans are becoming more acid, with potentially devastating consequences for corals and the marine organisms that build reefs and provide much of the Earth’s breathable oxygen.
Oct 17, 2007 |
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Insulin's brain impact links drugs and diabetes
Insulin, long known as an important regulator of blood glucose levels, now has a newly appreciated role in the brain.
Oct 17, 2007 |
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New study: pine bark extract boosts nitric oxide production
A study to be published in the October edition of Hypertension Research reveals Pycnogenol, (pic-noj-en-all), an antioxidant plant extract from the bark of the French maritime pine tree, helps individuals by enhancing healthy ...
Oct 17, 2007 |
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Study questions assumptions about human sensitivity to biological motion
Humans may not be any more sensitive in detecting biological motion compared with nonbiological motion, concludes a study recently published in Journal of Vision, an online, free-access publication of the Association for ...
Oct 17, 2007 |
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Elderly Medicare, Medicaid patients not receiving quality care
If the care received by vulnerable older people concurrently enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid was evaluated on a grading scale, it would squeak by with a barely passing mark, a new UCLA study has found.
Oct 17, 2007 |
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Even Ancient Greeks and Romans Enjoyed Good Scary Stories, Professor Says
These days, Halloween is all about good scary fun, but people have been thrilling to spooky tales as far back as ancient Greece and Rome, according to University of Massachusetts Amherst classics professor Debbie Felton, ...
Oct 17, 2007 |
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Discovery of New Antiviral Mechanism in Mammals May Improve Treatment of Hepatitis C Infections
A team of researchers led by biologists at the University of California, San Diego has discovered a completely new mechanism that mammalian cells employ to fight infections of the Hepatitis C virus, which affects approximately ...
Oct 17, 2007 |
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NASA Concludes Successful Fuse Mission
After an eight-year run that gave astronomers a completely new perspective on the universe, NASA has concluded the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer mission. The satellite, known as FUSE, became inoperable in July when ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 17, 2007 |
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Researchers Give Computers Common Sense
Using a little-known Google Labs widget, computer scientists from UC San Diego and UCLA have brought common sense to an automated image labeling system. The common sense comes as the ability to use context ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 17, 2007 |
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Acupuncture Reduces Pain, Need for Opioids after Surgery
Using acupuncture before and during surgery significantly reduces the level of pain and the amount of potent painkillers needed by patients after the surgery is over, according to Duke University Medical Center anesthesiologists ...
Oct 17, 2007 |
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Researchers Develop Wireless Bridge Sensors Without Batteries
Clarkson University researchers have developed technology that uses the vibrations caused by passing traffic to power wireless bridge monitoring sensors.
Oct 17, 2007 |
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