Archive: 10/17/2008
Where Hispanics live in the US may change over time
A study of residential patterns in America suggests that White and Black Hispanics born in the U.S. are more likely to share neighborhoods with native non-Hispanic Whites and African Americans, compared to foreign-born Hispanics ...
Oct 17, 2008 |
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Waste from gut bacteria helps host control weight, researchers report
A single molecule in the intestinal wall, activated by the waste products from gut bacteria, plays a large role in controlling whether the host animals are lean or fatty, a research team, including scientists from UT Southwestern ...
Oct 17, 2008 |
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The New T-Mobile G1 Android Has A Remote Kill Switch For Apps
The new T-Mobile G1 phone with Android goes on sale October 22nd. A sneak peak at the first phone to run Android reveals a notice to users that goes as follows: "Google may discover a product that violates ...
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
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Researchers successfully reprogram keratinocytes attached to a single hair
The first reports of the successful reprogramming of adult human cells back into so-called induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, which by all appearances looked and acted liked embryonic stem cells created a media stir. But ...
Biology /
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Study debunks myth that early immigrants quickly learned English
Joseph Salmons has always been struck by the pervasiveness of the argument. In his visits across Wisconsin, in many newspaper letters to the editor, and in the national debates raging over modern immigration, he encounters ...
Oct 17, 2008 |
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Consumers using more media, new and old, study says
(PhysOrg.com) -- Reports of traditional media's demise -- in favor of newer, high-tech forms -- have been greatly exaggerated. That's according to a four-year study led by an Iowa State University mass media ...
Oct 17, 2008 |
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Researcher Hopes to Find Hidden Tomb of Genghis Khan Using Non-Invasive Technologies
(PhysOrg.com) -- According to legend, Genghis Khan lies buried somewhere beneath the dusty steppe of Northeastern Mongolia, entombed in a spot so secretive that anyone who made the mistake of encountering ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 17, 2008 |
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Research team sheds light on immune system suppression
The work was reported in the October 16 issue of the journal Cell Host & Microbe. The study described the suppression of this immune response in mice infected with lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus, pointing to potential new av ...
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Oct 17, 2008 |
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Physical decline caused by slow decay of brain's myelin
During this year's baseball playoffs, Chicago White Sox outfielder Ken Griffey Jr., 38, threw a picture-perfect strike from center field to home plate to stop an opposing player from scoring. The White Sox ...
Oct 17, 2008 |
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Scientist explores secrets to life through worms
Who would have thought that worms found in your composter - only seen with a microscope - could be used to study genetic disorders in humans? With 700 million years of separation and roughly half of its genes ...
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Imager aboard IBEX space mission to capture evidence of far-distant particle collisions
A new NASA mission, IBEX, launches this weekend, geared to probe the very edge of the solar system from a high Earth orbit. One of its two instruments is a compact Los Alamos device called the High Energy ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 17, 2008 |
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'Stamping' self-assembling nanowires
(PhysOrg.com) -- By manipulating the way tiny droplets of fluid dry, Cornell researchers have created an innovative way to make and pattern nanoscale wires and other devices that ordinarily can be made only ...
Oct 17, 2008 |
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Healthy Foods more Expensive than Junk Foods
(PhysOrg.com) -- Healthy foods are rising in price faster than their less healthy alternatives. This is the finding of research published in the October issue of Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health.
Oct 17, 2008 |
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Engineers build first-ever multi-input 'plug-and-play' synthetic RNA device
Engineers from the California Institute of Technology have created a "plug-and-play" synthetic RNA device--a sort of eminently customizable biological computer--that is capable of taking in and responding to more than one ...
Oct 17, 2008 |
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When under attack, plants can signal microbial friends for help
Researchers at the University of Delaware have discovered that when the leaf of a plant is under attack by a pathogen, it can send out an S.O.S. to the roots for help, and the roots will respond by secreting ...
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