Link between light touch and Merkel cells solves 100-year mystery
Jun 18, 2009 |
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Light touch - the sense that lets musicians find the right notes on a keyboard, a seamstress revel in the feel of cool silk, the artisan feel a curve in material and the blind read Braille - truly depends on the activity ...
Gap between boys and girls persists in tech
Jun 18, 2009 |
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My 4-year-old daughter Kalian has become fascinated about printing on the -- "'puter," as she calls it. My wife or I will open a Word file on our family PC, and she'll plop down in the chair, peck away on the keyboard and ...
Fertilizer industry finds its alternative energy: corncobs
Jun 18, 2009 |
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American agriculture has become increasingly dependent on foreign sources of natural gas, a key ingredient in the nitrogen fertilizer that farmers use to get high yields of crops such as corn and wheat.
Teens are heading in wrong direction: Likely to have sex, but not use contraception
Jun 18, 2009 |
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Between 2003 and 2007, the progress made in the 1990s and early 2000s in improving teen contraceptive use and reducing teen pregnancy and childbearing stalled, and may even have reversed among certain groups of teens, according ...
Man who lost sense of smell assumed Zicam safe
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(AP) -- He was like millions of other consumers who sometimes take vitamins or echinacea, hoping to build up his immunity or ward off a cold. He figured alternative remedies were as safe as a spoonful of honey. ...
An easy way to find a needle in a haystack by removing the haystack
Jun 18, 2009 |
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Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena and their colleagues from the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague have developed a new method to quickly and reliably detect metabolites, ...
Researchers edit genes in human stem cells
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Researchers at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine have successfully edited the genome of human- induced pluripotent stem cells, making possible the future development of patient-specific stem cell therapies. Reporting this ...
Study highlights massive imbalances in global fertilizer use
Jun 18, 2009 |
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Synthetic fertilizers have dramatically increased food production worldwide. But the unintended costs to the environment and human health have been substantial. Nitrogen runoff from farms has contaminated ...
Palm Pre: It's almost an iPhone
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Jun 18, 2009 |
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The new Palm Pre from Sprint is the best attempt yet to create a phone that is as powerful, elegant and simple to use as the Apple iPhone.
Funding threatens US return to moon by 2020
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 18, 2009 |
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US ambitions of returning to the moon by 2020 and then heading to Mars risk being grounded because of "unrealistic" funds allocated to NASA, said Senator Bill Nelson, a former space shuttle astronaut.
Special effects outsourcing grows in India
Jun 18, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Outsourcing to India, long dominated by software engineering and back-office work, is expanding in new terrain: special effects for movies.
Flips-flops are bad for your sole
Jun 18, 2009 |
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Flip-flops aren't just hazardous to politicians -- they also pose risks for your feet. The floppy footwear, once contained to the beach, can now be spotted year-round.
Help for climate-stressed corals
Jun 18, 2009 |
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Banning or restricting the use of certain types of fishing gear could help the world's coral reefs and their fish populations survive the onslaughts of climate change according to a study by the ARC Centre ...
Playing video games for better, not worse
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 18, 2009 |
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ANN ARBOR, Mich.---Some video games can make children kinder and more likely to help---not hurt---other people.
Researchers visualize formation of a new synapse
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A protein called neuroligin that is implicated in some forms of autism is critical to the construction of a working synapse, locking neurons together like "molecular Velcro," a study lead by a team of UC Davis researchers ...
