Unmanned aerial vehicles mark robotic first for British Antarctic Survey
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 18, 2008 |
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Scientists at British Antarctic Survey (BAS) in collaboration with the Technical University of Braunschweig (TUBS), Germany have completed the first ever series of flights by autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in ...
High-tech interrogations may promote abuse
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There is evidence that brain imaging technology is being used to interrogate suspected terrorists despite concerns that it may not be reliable, and that it might inadvertently promote abuse of detainees, according to a Penn ...
What gets a female's attention -- at least a songbird's
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Male songbirds produce a subtly different tune when they are courting a female than when they are singing on their own. Now, new research offers a window into the effect this has on females, showing they have an ear for detail. ...
Economists: Tough economic sledding will get smoother by year's end
Mar 18, 2008 |
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With the housing market still skidding, consumers tightening their belts and the job market clearly weakening, the first half of this year will continue to be tough for the U.S. economy. But it gets better later this year ...
Understanding teen attitudes critical to quit message
Mar 18, 2008 |
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Teen attitudes to smoking need to be re-examined if anti-smoking health campaigns are to be effective, according to Hunter researchers.
Researchers find 1 in 6 women, 1 in 10 men at risk for Alzheimer's disease in their lifetime
Mar 18, 2008 |
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Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have estimated that one in six women are at risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in their lifetime, while the risk for men is one in ten. These findings ...
Tell them where it hurts
Technology / Computer Sciences
Mar 18, 2008 |
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For statues, stress injuries come from standing in place for hundreds of years. Using a novel technique, researchers have now developed a way to predict such fracturing, applying the procedure to Michelangelo's ...
European membrane expertise to focus on new treatments for human diseases
Mar 18, 2008 |
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A new 15 million Euro project led by the University of Leeds aims to find novel treatments for many human diseases by bringing together the leading European experts in membrane proteins.
New study changes conditions for Spanish brown bears
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Mar 18, 2008 |
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Brown bears from the Iberian Peninsula are not as genetically different from other brown bears in Europe as was previously thought. An international study being published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of ...
Oxford project to develop free software for green computing
Mar 18, 2008 |
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Oxford University is pioneering an energy saving research project for green computing, which is likely to have wide-reaching benefits for further and higher educational institutions across the UK.
New technique improves outcome for living donor liver transplants
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The University of Alberta Hospital (UAH) is one of only a few centers in Canada that perform living donor liver transplantation, a surgical procedure developed in the late 1980s that expands the organ donor pool. About 80 ...
Making protected areas pay biodiversity dividends
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Mar 18, 2008 |
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With human activity pushing more and more species to the brink of extinction--species abundance has declined by 40% between 1970 and 2000 alone--the need to protect biodiversity has never been more urgent. In a new essay ...
Just 2% of child drug trials included independent safety checks says review of over 700 studies
Medicine & Health / Medications
Mar 18, 2008 |
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Only two per cent of paediatric drug trials reported that they had established independent safety monitoring committees that can help lead to the early detection of adverse drug reactions, according to a major review in the ...
Applying genomic medicine into clinical practice for chronic diseases still in the early stages
Mar 18, 2008 |
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A large gap exists between what knowledge is available about genomic medicine and incorporating it into clinical practice for assessing the risk of and treating common chronic diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes ...
Uric acid may provide early clues to diabetic kidney disease
Mar 18, 2008 |
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For patients with type 1 diabetes, increased levels of uric acid in the blood may be an early sign of diabetic kidney disease—appearing before any significant change in urine albumin level, the standard screening test, reports ...
