Philips Designs the 'Light Blossom,' an Intelligent Street Light Concept
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Designing nighttime lighting solutions for urban areas presents a challenge for city planners. Too much light results in light pollution - not just limiting the enjoyment of stargazers, but also interfering ...
Waste from gut bacteria helps host control weight, researchers report
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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 ...
Study finds value in 'junk' DNA
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For about 15 years, scientists have known that certain "junk" DNA -- repetitive DNA segments previously thought to have no function -- could evolve into exons, which are the building blocks for protein-coding genes in higher ...
'Stamping' self-assembling nanowires
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(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 ...
When under attack, plants can signal microbial friends for help
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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 ...
Physical decline caused by slow decay of brain's myelin
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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 ...
Blue bananas: Ripening bananas glow an intense blue under black light
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Ripe bananas are of course yellow. However, under black light, the yellow bananas are bright blue, as discovered by scientists at the University of Innsbruck (Austria) and Columbia University ...
Researcher Hopes to Find Hidden Tomb of Genghis Khan Using Non-Invasive Technologies
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
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(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 ...
Researchers successfully reprogram keratinocytes attached to a single hair
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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 ...
Study debunks myth that early immigrants quickly learned English
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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 ...
The New T-Mobile G1 Android Has A Remote Kill Switch For Apps
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
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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 ...
Human protein atlas will help pinpoint disease
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Researchers in Sweden are compiling a remarkable 'atlas' that pinpoints the location of thousands of individual proteins in the body's tissues and cells which will give scientists important insights into the function of different ...
Engineers build first-ever multi-input 'plug-and-play' synthetic RNA device
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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 ...
Aspirin does not prevent heart attacks in patients with diabetes
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Taking regular aspirin and antioxidant supplements does not prevent heart attacks even in high risk groups with diabetes and asymptomatic arterial disease, and aspirin should only be given to patients with established heart ...
Imager aboard IBEX space mission to capture evidence of far-distant particle collisions
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
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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 ...
