U of Minnesota's independent study of the I-35W bridge collapse results parallel NTSB report
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Preliminary results of the University of Minnesota's independent academic study of the I-35W bridge collapse suggest that lack of robustness in the bridge's original design, additional load from bridge improvements over the ...
Underwater stock options drive top executives turnover
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When the market price of company stock falls below the exercise price, the options are considered to be "out of the money" or underwater. Many publicly traded firms have become concerned about retaining highly valued executives ...
New technique eliminates toxic drugs in islet transplant in diabetic mice
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The body's immune system hates strangers. When its security patrol spots a foreign cell, it annihilates it.
Where there's wildfire smoke, there's toxicity
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The health threat to city dwellers posed by Southern California wildfires like those of November 2008 may have been underestimated by officials.
Stopping germs from ganging up on humans
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Keeping germs from cooperating can delay the evolution of drug resistance more effectively than killing germs one by one with traditional drugs such as antibiotics, according to new research from The University of Arizona ...
New method for tracing metal pollution back to its sources
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
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A new way of pinpointing where zinc pollution in the atmosphere comes from could improve pollution monitoring and regulation, says research out this week in the journal Analytical Chemistry.
Race guides neighborhood evaluation, study says
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Race is a powerful determinant of how whites regard a neighborhood, according to a recent study at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Michigan.
Certain skills are predictors of reading ability in young children
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A new study in the journal Learning Disabilities Research & Practice reveals that differences found between pre-kindergarten reading-disabled children and their typically reading peers diminish in various measures by pre-first ...
Uncertainty can be more stressful than clear negative feedback
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
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Some individuals would rather receive clear negative information than deal with ambiguity or uncertainty, according to new research out of the University of Toronto.
Specific DNA variations of the serotonin transporter gene can influence drinking intensity
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The brain's serotonergic system plays an important role in alcohol preference and consumption. The serotonin transporter gene (SLC6A4), in particular, may regulate a person's propensity for severe drinking. A study of six ...
Oh, what a feeling! Brain-injured recover emotional perception skills
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People who have lost the ability to interpret emotion after a severe brain injury can regain this vital social skill by being re-educated to read body language, facial expressions and voice tone in others, according to a ...
Iowa State researchers to develop national energy/transportation model and plan
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You're starting with working equipment full of expensive parts. So you don't want to throw everything away and start over. You want to put together just the right combination of existing parts and new pieces ...
Misreading of damaged DNA may spur tumor formation
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The DNA in our cells is constantly under assault from oxygen, the sun's radiation and environmental stresses. Most of the time, our cells can repair the damage before it gets copied into a permanent mutation that could lead ...
New research will seal the future of green packaging
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Researchers at the University of Bath and the food & drinks research centre at Campden BRI are leading a project to create a new high speed environmentally-friendly packaging process that will use recycled ...
Bad cholesterol inhibits the breakdown of peripheral fat
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The so called bad cholesterol (LDL) inhibits the breakdown of fat in cells of peripheral deposits, according to a study from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet. The discovery reveals a novel function of ...
