Archive: 03/21/2008
New Method Offers Insight into Radiation Damage to DNA
A new technique for assessing the damage radiation causes to DNA indicates that the spatial arrangement of damaged sites, or lesions, is more important than the number of lesions in determining the severity ...
Biology /
Mar 21, 2008 |
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Countering an approaching water crisis
As growing demand for clean water stretches even the resources of the world's largest industrialized nations, scientists and engineers are turning to new technology and novel ideas to find solutions.
Mar 21, 2008 |
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MIT aims to search for Earth-like planets with Google's help
MIT scientists are designing a satellite-based observatory that they say could for the first time provide a sensitive survey of the entire sky to search for planets outside the solar system that appear to ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 21, 2008 |
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New breed of cognitive robot... a puppy?
Designers of artificial cognitive systems have tended to adopt one of two approaches to building robots that can think for themselves: classical rule-based artificial intelligence or artificial neural networks. ...
Mar 21, 2008 |
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In poker, psychologist places bets on skill
Is it luck of the draw in poker? No, says Michael DeDonno, a doctoral student from Case Western Reserve University. Based on findings from two psychology studies, he suggests putting your bets on skills over luck when playing ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 21, 2008 |
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First study hints at insights to come from genes unique to humans
Among the approximately 23,000 genes found in human DNA, scientists currently estimate that there may be as few as 50 to 100 that have no counterparts in other species. Expand that comparison to include the primate family ...
Biology /
Mar 21, 2008 |
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Scientists look to cut cow flatulence
Scientists in Scotland said they've found a way to cut greenhouse gas emissions by curbing cow and sheep flatulence.
Mar 21, 2008 |
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China builds observatory at South Pole
An international team led by China has installed an automated space observatory at Dome Argus, the highest point on the South Pole.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 21, 2008 |
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California tries to stop quagga mussels
Several California communities are banning recreational boats on inland waterways to keep out invasive quagga mussels.
Biology /
Mar 21, 2008 |
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AIDS vaccine trials may have added risk
Two field tests of an AIDS vaccine not only failed to protect people from the virus but may have put them at greater risk, U.S. researchers said.
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Mar 21, 2008 |
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Ultra-Fast Quantum-Dot Information Storage
The information-storage market is dominated by two main types: Flash memory, used in memory sticks and cell phones, and dynamic random access memory (DRAM), which is the main memory in a personal computer. Both types have ...
Mar 21, 2008 |
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Visual technology enables brain to learn in new ways
New technology at Tufts University's Center for Scientific Visualization is enabling researchers to translate the most abstract, complex scientific concepts into clearer, more precise 3-dimensional images than conventional ...
Mar 21, 2008 |
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Adolescents with chronic insomnia report 'twofold to fivefold' increase in personal problems
Documenting a “twofold to fivefold” increase in personal problems among adolescents with persistent sleeplessness, public health researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston say they have completed ...
Mar 21, 2008 |
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Netting mosquitoes to prevent malaria
Michigan State University scientist Ned Walker is taking on one of the biggest killers in the world—malaria. And he believes he can help win the battle to save lives, especially the lives of children.
Mar 21, 2008 |
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Molecular science could further improve leukemia survival
The dramatic increase that has occurred in the cure rate for children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) will be difficult to replicate in older patients without considerable additional research, according to an article ...
Mar 21, 2008 |
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