Archive: 10/21/2008
Building Better Bees
A UC Davis researcher known for her honey bee line "New World Carniolans" has crossed her bees with their Old World counterparts to enhance their positive characteristics.
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X marks the spot: Sharpies get thumbs-up for marking surgery sites
A bit of good news out of the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry at the University of Alberta for patients undergoing surgery or an invasive procedure, their surgeons and cost-conscious hospital administrators. It's standard ...
Oct 21, 2008 |
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Scientists enhance immune system attacks on cancer
In an Early Edition issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) published online on October 20, 2008, the scientists describe how they used multiple tactics to rev up both innate and adaptive immuni ...
Oct 21, 2008 |
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Physicists find a new state of matter in a 'transistor'
McGill University researchers have discovered a new state of matter, a quasi-three- dimensional electron crystal, in a material very much like those used in the fabrication of modern transistors. This discovery could have ...
Oct 21, 2008 |
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Researchers Study How Mother's High-fat Diet Contributes to Obesity in Children
(PhysOrg.com) -- The catch phrase “eating for two” isn’t license for pregnant women to forgo concerns about weight gain during pregnancy, say researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC).
Oct 21, 2008 |
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Researchers Resolve 40-Year Dispute Over Disappearing Physical Property
(PhysOrg.com) -- A property that can be used for memory in electronic devices disappears at high temperatures, and University of Arkansas scientists and colleagues in the Czech Academy of Sciences have used both theory and ...
Oct 21, 2008 |
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New DNA Tool Probes Rice Genome
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new tool for investigating the rice genome has been developed by researchers at UC Davis led by Pamela Ronald, professor of plant pathology. The inexpensive, publicly-available rice DNA microarray covers ...
Biology /
Oct 21, 2008 |
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Study Shines Light on How Red Blood Cells Control Blood Pressure
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new technique sheds light on how red blood cells regulate blood pressure in small blood vessels.
Oct 21, 2008 |
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Study of polar dinosaur migration questions whether dinosaurs were truly the first great migrators
Contrary to popular belief, polar dinosaurs may not have traveled nearly as far as originally thought when making their bi-annual migration.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 21, 2008 |
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Couples with children with ADHD at risk of higher divorce rates, shorter marriages
Parents of a child with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are nearly twice as likely to divorce by the time the child is 8 years old than parents of children without ADHD, the first study to look at this issue ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 21, 2008 |
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Serendipitous observations reveal rare event in life of distant quasar
A bit of serendipity has given astronomers a surprise view of a never-before-observed event in the birth of a galaxy.
Oct 21, 2008 |
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Identity politics: Sex, race color perceptions of Obama, Palin
(PhysOrg.com) -- Even among young voters receptive to Barack Obama and Sarah Palin's historic candidacies, race and gender may hurt—and help—their reputations, according to new University of Michigan research.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 21, 2008 |
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Beyond recognizing odors, a single neuron controls reactions
(PhysOrg.com) -- Babies will smile when they catch the scent of vanilla, but a whiff of rotting meat will send them into fits. From people to mice and flies to worms, animals of all kinds are born with likes ...
Oct 21, 2008 |
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LG Electronics to Invest in Solar Cell Production Line
LG Electronics decided at its board of directors meeting held on October 20 to convert its A1 plasma panel-manufacturing line in Gumi, Korea, into solar cell production lines.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Oct 21, 2008 |
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Geobiologists Discover Unique 'Magnetic Death Star' Fossil
(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of scientists has discovered microscopic, magnetic fossils resembling spears and spindles, unlike anything previously seen, among sediment layers deposited during an ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 21, 2008 |
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