Probing Question: What predicts a happy marriage?
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You’ve planned the perfect Valentine’s Day, booked the candlelit restaurant, bought chocolate and flowers. (Or, depending on your darling's taste, bought tickets to a monster truck rally.) The night couldn’t have gone better… ...
Spin cycle: a new kind of washer (Video)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In many developing countries, electricity is unreliable or unavailable and water must be carried by hand, so conventional modern washing machines are not an option. Washing clothes can take ...
iPoint 3D - Using fingers as a remote control
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The 'iPoint 3D' allows people to communicate with a 3-D display through simple gestures - without touching it and without 3-D glasses or a data glove. What until now has only been seen in ...
New research could help predict red tide
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Not far beneath the ocean's surface, tiny phytoplankton swimming upward in a daily commute toward morning light sometimes encounter the watery equivalent of Rod Serling's Twilight Zone: a ...
Gold-palladium nanoparticles achieve greener, smarter production of hydrogen peroxide
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Feb 19, 2009 |
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Hydrogen peroxide is one of the world's most versatile and widely used chemicals. A powerful oxidizing agent, H2O2 is commonly used as a bleach, an antiseptic and a disinfectant.
Anti-aging pathway enhances cell stress response
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People everywhere are feeling the stress of a worldwide recession. Our cells, too, are under continual assault from stress.
Mathematical model could help diagnose and treat stress disorders
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Over 20 million people in North America suffer chronic stress-related diseases. But two University of Alberta researchers may be on the fast track to treating these illnesses.
Green, black tea can reduce stroke risk
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Drinking at least three cups of green or black tea a day can significantly reduce the risk of stroke, a new UCLA study has found. And the more you drink, the better your odds of staving off a stroke.
Changing sexes on the sea floor
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Trees do it. Bees do it. Even environmentally stressed fish do it. But Prof. Yossi Loya from Tel Aviv University's Department of Zoology is the first in the world to discover that Japanese sea corals engage ...
What do Biological Cells and Democracy Have in Common?
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI) and Harvard University offer a groundbreaking new perspective on how genes determine and regulate the functional identity of a cell. The study, ...
What did Galileo actually do?
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
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(PhysOrg.com) -- What convinced Galileo 400 years ago that the Earth orbits the Sun and not vice-versa? How did one man make such a startling discovery, armed with just a 2 inch lens telescope?
Open Access to Scientific Papers May Not Guarantee Wide Dissemination
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(PhysOrg.com) -- If you offer something of value to people for free while someone else charges a hefty sum of money for the same type of product, one would logically assume that most people would choose the ...
Kepler Planet Finding Mission Set for March 5 Launch
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 19, 2009 |
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NASA's Kepler spacecraft is on its way to the launch pad and will soon begin a journey to search for worlds that could potentially host life.
Study shows how microscopic changes to brain cause schizophrenic behavior in mice
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The findings are being published in an Early Edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences this week.
Radiation riddle remains even after scientist's lifetime research
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A large tract of land not far from E. John Ainsworth's Pleasanton, Calif., home bears no evidence of the research on radiation health effects he led in the 1960s, at the height of the Cold War.
