Passage graves from an astronomical perspective
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Dec 18, 2008 |
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Passage graves are mysterious barrows from the Stone Age. New research from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen indicates that the Stone Age graves' orientation in the landscape could ...
NASA's Kepler Spacecraft Ready to Ship to Florida
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 18, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers are getting ready to pack NASA's Kepler spacecraft into a container and ship it off to its launch site at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The mission, scheduled to launch ...
Under a Frozen Lake in Siberia, Geoscientist Drills For Secrets of Earth’s Ancient Climate
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 18, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In the next few days, a convoy of bulldozers and trucks will set out from a remote airport in Siberia, heading for a frozen lake 62 miles north of the Arctic Circle, but the trip isn’t a holiday visit to ...
Experts argue nano food-additives require new oversight
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Dec 18, 2008 |
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Nanotechnology policy experts are urging that food additives that contain nanoscale materials be subject to new safety testing to ensure that their use does not pose unintended risks.
Harnessing microbes to boost plant production
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Dec 18, 2008 |
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Farmers, home gardeners, golf course managers and other growers now have access to a new type of microbial fertilizer that dramatically increases plant size and yield, thanks to a licensing agreement between Michigan State ...
PICO and SALVE: Understanding the subatomic world better
Dec 18, 2008 |
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Two new high-resolution transmission electron microscopes, co-financed by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation), are set to open up new opportunities for research in physics and materials science. ...
Should the Pope be worried that Wales won the rugby Grand Slam this year?
Dec 18, 2008 |
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Doctors in the Christmas issue published on bmj.com today are urging the Vatican's medical team to keep a special watch over the Pope this Christmas, after their research investigating the link between papal deaths and Welsh ...
Moon's polar craters could be the place to find lunar ice, scientists report
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 18, 2008 |
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Scientists have discovered where they believe would be the best place to find ice on the moon.
Scientists develop method for generating novel types of stem cells
Biology /
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The study, which appears in the December 18 online version of Cell Stem Cell and the January 2009 print edition of the journal, provides proof of principle that alternative sources of stem cells can be created.
Mouse trap? Stanford immunologist calls for more research on humans, not mice
Dec 18, 2008 |
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The fabled laboratory mouse — from which we have learned so much about how the immune system works — can teach us only so much about how we humans get sick and what to do about it, says a leading researcher at the Stanford ...
Stem cells and leukemia battle for marrow microenvironment
Dec 18, 2008 |
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Learning how leukemia takes over privileged "niches" within the bone marrow is helping researchers develop treatment strategies that could protect healthy blood-forming stem cells and improve the outcomes of bone marrow transplantation ...
Low glycemic diet better for glycemic control of type 2 diabetes than whole grains
Dec 18, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Low glycemic foods - beans, peas, lentils, pasta, rice boiled briefly and breads like pumpernickel and flaxseed - do a better job of managing glycemic control for type 2 diabetes and risk factors for coronary ...
Abortion and miscarriage bring psychiatric risk
Dec 18, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Drug and alcohol problems and psychiatric disorders are more likely in women who have had an abortion or miscarriage, a University of Queensland study has found.
Water supplies could be strongly affected by climate change
Dec 18, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It's no simple matter to figure out how regional changes in precipitation, expected to result from global climate change, may affect water supplies. Now, a new analysis led by MIT researchers ...
A simple fusion to jump-start evolution
Biology /
Dec 18, 2008 |
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With the aid of a straightforward experiment, researchers have provided some clues to one of biology's most complex questions: how ancient organic molecules came together to form the basis of life.
