FDA asked to drop soy health claims
Feb 19, 2008 |
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A non-profit nutrition education organization has asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to drop heart disease health claims for soy protein.
Cassini finds mingling moons may share a dark past
Feb 19, 2008 |
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Despite the incredible diversity of Saturn’s icy moons, theirs is a story of great interaction. Some are pock-marked, some seemingly dirty, others pristine, one spongy, one two-faced, some still spewing with ...
Rice computer chip makes Technology Review's top 10
Feb 19, 2008 |
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Rice University's technology for a "gambling" computer chip, which could boost battery life as much as tenfold on cell phones and laptops while slashing development costs for chipmakers, has been named to MIT Technology Review's ...
Advertisers, neuroscientists trace source of emotions in brain
Feb 19, 2008 |
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First came direct marketing, then focus groups. Now, advertisers, with the help of neuroscientists, are closing in on the holy grail: mind reading. At least, that’s what is suggested in a paper published today in the journal ...
Lensless camera uses X-rays to view nanoscale materials and biological specimens
Feb 19, 2008 |
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X-rays have been used for decades to take pictures of broken bones, but scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and their collaborators have developed a lensless X-ray ...
Astronomy technology brings nanoparticle probes into sharper focus
Feb 19, 2008 |
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While pondering the challenges of distinguishing one nano-sized probe image from another in a mass of hundreds or thousands of nanoprobes, researchers at Georgia Tech and Emory University made an interesting observation. ...
Small Sea Creatures May Be the 'Canaries in the Coal Mine' of Climate Change
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Feb 19, 2008 |
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As oceans warm and become more acidic, ocean creatures are undergoing severe stress and entire food webs are at risk.
Gene therapy 'trains' immune system to destroy brain cancer cells and reverses behavioral deficits
Feb 19, 2008 |
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A new gene therapy approach that attracts and “trains” immune system cells to destroy deadly brain cancer cells also provides long-term immunity, produces no significant adverse effects and -- in the process of destroying ...
Digital frame virus traced to China
Feb 19, 2008 |
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A powerful virus recently discovered in digital photo frames has been identified as a Chinese Trojan Horse that gathers personal information.
Suicide spikes for U.S. middle-aged
Feb 19, 2008 |
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A five-year study on suicide in the United States found a 20 percent increase in the suicide rate among 45-to-54-year-olds, out-pacing any other age group.
MIT to lead development of new telescopes on moon
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 19, 2008 |
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NASA has selected a proposal by an MIT-led team to develop plans for an array of radio telescopes on the far side of the moon that would probe the earliest formation of the basic structures of the universe. The agency announced ...
Hubble Discovers 67 New Gravitationally Lensed Galaxies in the Distant Universe
Feb 19, 2008 |
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Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have compiled a large catalog of gravitational lenses in the distant universe. The catalog contains 67 new gravitationally lensed galaxy images found around ...
Effective ADHD treatment found for children with fragile X syndrome
Feb 19, 2008 |
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Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is the most common hereditary form of mental retardation. Many children with FXS also suffer from attention deficit and/or hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), which complicates social relationships at ...
NASA MidSTAR-1 successful technologies may be revolutionary
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 19, 2008 |
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Two new technologies launched onboard a U.S. Naval Academy satellite called MidSTAR-1 have proven successful in their tests in space. One technology is a sensor that can check for harmful chemicals and the ...
Tumor-killing virus selectively targets diseased brain cells
Feb 19, 2008 |
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New findings show that a specialized virus with the ability to reproduce its tumor-killing genes can selectively target tumors in the brains of mice and eliminate them. Healthy brain tissue remained virtually untouched, according ...
