The best both of worlds -- how to have sex and survive
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Sep 20, 2007 |
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Researchers have discovered that even the gruesome and brutal lifestyle of the Evarcha culicivora, a blood gorging jumping spider indigenous to East Africa, can’t help but be tempted by that ‘big is beautiful’ mantra no matter ...
Scientists decipher mechanism behind antimicrobial 'hole punchers'
Sep 20, 2007 |
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In the battle against bacteria, researchers have scored a direct hit. They have made a discovery that could shorten the road to new and more potent antibiotics.
Study says the best energy strategies to meet the world’s growing demand for electricity are green, small and local
Sep 20, 2007 |
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The wisest energy strategy for the United States, and indeed other countries facing similar challenges, is to move away from their reliance on large-scale centralized coal and nuclear plants, and instead, invest in renewable ...
Scientists report new strategy to create genetically-modified animals
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Sep 20, 2007 |
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Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine have demonstrated the potential of a new strategy for genetic modification of large animals. The method employs a harmless gene therapy virus that ...
i.play Offers Video Game-like Playground Equipment
Sep 20, 2007 |
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For children of today’s generation, swings and slides don’t seem to cut it anymore—not when you have an Xbox and Playstation in your living room. In an attempt to curb the rising childhood obesity rates partially ...
Brain system serves as 'remote control' for fat metabolism
Sep 20, 2007 |
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A system in the brain already known to regulate food intake also serves as a direct “remote control” for the way fat is stored and metabolized in the body, say University of Cincinnati (UC) researchers.
Smart insulin nanostructures pass feasibility test
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Sep 20, 2007 |
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Biomedical engineers at The University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences at Houston have announced pre-clinical test results in the September issue of the International Journal of Nanomedicine demonstrating the ...
Toshiba to demonstrate prototype of new 'SpursEngine' processor
Sep 20, 2007 |
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Toshiba Corporation today announced development of the "SpursEngine", a high-performance stream processor integrating Synergistic Processing Element (SPE) cores derived from the Cell Broadband Engine (Cell/B.E.). ...
New discovery leaves blood-doping athletes scratching their heads
Sep 20, 2007 |
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A stunning discovery by German scientists may make blood doping and the treatment of severe anemia as easy as washing your hair. In the October print issue of The FASEB Journal, researchers show that the estimated 100,00 ...
CO2 emissions could violate EPA ocean-quality standards within decades
Sep 20, 2007 |
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In a commentary in the September 25, 2007, issue of the Geophysical Research Letters (GRL), a large team of scientists state that human-induced carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions will alter ocean chemistry to the point where it w ...
Carnegie Mellon building robot for lunar prospecting
Sep 20, 2007 |
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Researchers in the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science are building a robotic prospector for NASA that can creep over rocky slopes and then anchor itself as a stable ...
Bend it like... a Millipede?
Sep 20, 2007 |
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While industry spends billions bending and shaping sheets of metal, a team in this year's UQ Business School Enterprize competition claims that it can do it better – and cheaper.
Cell-surface sugar defects may trigger nerve damage in multiple sclerosis patients
Sep 20, 2007 |
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Defects on cell-surface sugars may promote the short-term inflammation and long-term neurodegeneration that occurs in the central nervous system of multiple sclerosis patients, according to University of California, Irvine ...
When it comes fighting to C. difficile, the Palme d'Or goes to soap and warm water
Sep 20, 2007 |
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Hospitals world-wide battle nosocomial infections on a daily basis. One of the most difficult bacteria to combat is Clostridium.difficile. To help ensure the best control methods possible, Dr. Michael Libman, Director of ...
Natural gas inhabited by unusual specialists
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Sep 20, 2007 |
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A German-American research team of biologists and geochemists has discovered hitherto unknown anaerobic bacteria in marine sediments which need only propane or butane for growth, as reported by the scientific journal Nature in its ...
