Findings a step toward making new optical materials
Apr 22, 2008 |
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Chemical engineers have developed a "self-assembling" method that could lead to an inexpensive way of making diamondlike crystals to improve optical communications and other technologies.
Scientists identify novel way to prevent cardiac fibrosis
Apr 22, 2008 |
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In a study that points to a new strategy for preventing or possibly reversing fibrosis – the scarring that can lead to organ and tissue damage – researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have ...
Social form of bullying linked to depression, anxiety in adults
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 22, 2008 |
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Spreading rumors and gossiping may not cause bruises or black eyes, but the psychological consequences of this social type of bullying could linger into early adulthood, a new University of Florida study shows.
Melanoma lurks in larger skin lesions, researchers find
Apr 22, 2008 |
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Skin lesions that are about the size of a pencil eraser are more likely to be melanomas, a deadly form of skin cancer, than smaller moles, according to a new study led by NYU Langone Medical Center researchers.
First atomic-level look at a protein that causes brain disease
Apr 22, 2008 |
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For the first time, researchers have peered deeply at the atomic level into the protein that causes hereditary cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) -- a disease thought to cause stroke and dementia. The study pinpointed a tiny ...
To a fault: the bottom line on earthquakes
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 22, 2008 |
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Although many people think that California “owns” all the earthquakes, Ohio also has its share of faults. Unlike another earthquake that woke people on another April 18, 102 years ago, this quake was fairly mild.
Ugandan monkeys harbor evidence of infection with unknown poxvirus
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Apr 22, 2008 |
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Researchers report this month that red colobus monkeys in a park in western Uganda have been exposed to an unknown orthopoxvirus, a pathogen related to the viruses that cause smallpox, monkeypox and cowpox. ...
Fat-cell hormone linked to kidney disease
Apr 22, 2008 |
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Reduced levels of a hormone produced by fat cells and linked to the development of insulin resistance may also be related to a higher risk of kidney disease, according to a study led by researchers at the University of California, ...
The 1930s semi goes green
Apr 22, 2008 |
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Three million of them were built; they stimulated a boom in employment and turned a nation of shop keepers into a nation of home owners. The 1930s semi is an icon of its age but 80 years on it is about to undergo a green ...
Why College Men May Hear 'Yes' When Women Mean 'No'
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 22, 2008 |
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Faulty male introspection may explain why men so often misinterpret women's indirect messages to stop or slow down the escalation of sexual intimacy, according to new research by UC Davis communication professor Michael Motley.
Scientists discover a mechanism that can send cells on the road to cancer
Apr 22, 2008 |
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Using a common virus as a tool for investigating abnormal cell proliferation, a team led by scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has succeeded in clarifying an intricate series of biochemical steps that shed ...
Can certain metals repel sharks from fishing gear?
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Apr 22, 2008 |
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Sharks in captivity avoid metals that react with seawater to produce an electric field, a behavior that may help fishery biologists develop a strategy to reduce the bycatch of sharks in longline gear. Shark bycatch is an ...
Moondust and Duct Tape
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 22, 2008 |
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At this year's Great Moonbuggy Race in Huntsville, Alabama, Prof. Paul Shiue of Christian Brothers University was overheard joking that duct tape was his team's "best engineering tool." Others felt the same ...
Laser dissection of depression
Apr 22, 2008 |
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Chinese investigators from Hefei and Dutch researchers in Amsterdam have collaborated using for the first time a combination of new elegant methodology in Depression research. They used postmortem human brain tissue that ...
Researchers id new class of photoreceptors
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Apr 22, 2008 |
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The identification of a new class of photoreceptors in the retina of fruit flies sheds light on the regulation of the pigments of the eye that confer color vision, researchers at New York University’s Center for Developmental ...
