STEREO Sends Back First Solar Images
Dec 19, 2006 |
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NASA's twin Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatories (STEREO) sent back their first images of the sun this week and with them a view into the sun's mounting activity.
Brain Training Can Have Lasting Benefits
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Just as physical exercise is good for the body, mental training can keep older minds functioning better, with results lasting for years.
Study finds the air rich with bacteria
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 19, 2006 |
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Want biodiversity? Look no further than the air around you. It could be teeming with more than 1,800 types of bacteria, according to a first-of-its-kind census of airborne microbes recently conducted by scientists ...
Electrical Activity Alters Language Used By Nerve Cells
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Dec 19, 2006 |
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UC San Diego biologists have shown that the chemical language with which neurons communicate depends on the pattern of electrical activity in the developing nervous system. The findings suggest that modification ...
Study: Louisiana moving down and south
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Dec 19, 2006 |
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U.S. geologists say they have determined Louisiana is subsiding vertically and moving southward in respect to North America.
Higher occurrence of Parkinson's linked to low LDL cholesterol
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People with low levels of LDL cholesterol are more likely to have Parkinson's disease than people with high LDL levels, according to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers.
History-hunting geneticists can still follow familiar trail
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As the world's first explorers branched away from humanity's birthplace in east Africa some 65,000 years ago, distinct mutations accumulated in the DNA of each population, essentially providing a genetic trail for modern ...
Mayo Clinic study explores link between nanoparticles and kidney stones
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Dec 19, 2006 |
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Researchers at Mayo Clinic have successfully isolated nanoparticles from human kidney stones in cell cultures and have isolated proteins, RNA and DNA that appear to be associated with nanoparticles. The findings, which appear ...
Celestial Season's Greetings from Hubble
Dec 19, 2006 |
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Swirls of gas and dust reside in this ethereal-looking region of star formation imaged by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. This majestic view, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), reveals a region where ...
'Home run' study on spread of disease published
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Dec 19, 2006 |
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A paper that authors are calling a "home run" study on the spread of disease is published in this week’s issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Climate change has surprising effect on endangered naked carp
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Dec 19, 2006 |
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Forthcoming in the January/February 2007 issue of Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, a groundbreaking study reveals an unanticipated way freshwater fish may respond to water diversion and climate change ...
Study finds that rich retirees are the main losers from inflation
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How would distribution of wealth change if the United States were to enter a period of inflation? A study from the December issue of the Journal of Political Economy finds that even mild inflation can lead to substantial redist ...
Samsung Launches the World’s First 'Optical Joystick' Phone
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Dec 19, 2006 |
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Samsung Electronics launches the world's first mobile phone featuring an optical joystick for a whole new mobile experience.
Durable critters providing insight for human egg preservation
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A tiny, six-legged critter that suspends all biological activity when the going gets tough may hold answers to a better way to cryopreserve human eggs, researchers say.
Software, evolution and micro-inversions -- improving the building of phylogenetic trees
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Biologists will be able to reconstruct the process of evolution, determine relationships between species and build phylogenetic trees with greater accuracy thanks to a new method for identifying “microinversions,” which are ...
