Dutch robot Flame walks like a human
May 22, 2008 |
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Researcher Daan Hobbelen of TU Delft has developed a new, highly-advanced walking robot: Flame. This type of research, for which Hobbelen will receive his PhD on Friday 30 May, is important as it provides ...
A Test of the Copernican Principle
May 22, 2008 |
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The Copernican principle states that the Earth is not the center of the universe, and that, as observers, we don’t occupy a special place. First stated by Copernicus in the 16th century, today the idea is ...
Foot-dragging Mars rover finds Yellowstone-like hot spring deposits
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 22, 2008 |
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Deposits of nearly pure silica discovered by the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit in Gusev Crater formed when volcanic steam or hot water (or maybe both) percolated through the ground. Such deposits are found ...
Archaeologists explore Peruvian mystery
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 22, 2008 |
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Indiana Jones may be flying over the Nazca Lines in Peru in his latest Hollywood adventure, but two British archaeologists have been investigating the enigmatic desert drawings for several years.
New Study Finds Increasing Acidification of Pacific Ocean’s Continental Shelf
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 22, 2008 |
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An international team of scientists surveying the waters of the continental shelf off the West Coast of North America has discovered for the first time high levels of acidified ocean water within 20 miles of the shoreline, ...
Major 'missed' biochemical pathway emerges as important in virtually all cells
May 22, 2008 |
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A new study by Duke University researchers provides more evidence that the nitric oxide (NO) system in the life of a cell plays a key role in disease, and the findings point to ways to improve treatment of illnesses such ...
Study identifies food-related clock in the brain
Biology /
May 22, 2008 |
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In investigating the intricacies of the body’s biological rhythms, scientists at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) have discovered the existence of a “food-related clock” which can supersede the “light-based” master ...
Researchers explore the emerging role of infection in Alzheimer's disease
May 22, 2008 |
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The realization that pathogens can produce slowly progressive chronic diseases has opened new lines of research into Alzheimer's disease. In a special issue of the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease published May 2008, guest ...
Fluorescent nano-barcodes could revolutionize diagnostics
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
May 22, 2008 |
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A new technology with research and clinical application including the early detection of disease has been invented and developed by University of Queensland researchers.
Study finds unique HIV vaccine formula elicits strong immune responses
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
May 22, 2008 |
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Today, Advanced BioScience Laboratories, Inc. and the University of Massachusetts Medical School report that their unique HIV vaccine formulation was effective in eliciting strong and balanced immune responses in healthy ...
COROT's exoplanet hunt update
May 22, 2008 |
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Two new exoplanets and an unknown celestial object are the latest findings of the COROT mission. These discoveries mean that the mission has now found a total of four new exoplanets.
Scorched Earth millenium map shows 'fire scars'
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 22, 2008 |
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A geographer from the University of Leicester has produced for the first time a map of the scorched Earth for every year since the turn of the Millennium.
Probing question: Are print newspapers dying?
May 22, 2008 |
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It's a morning routine repeated across the country: Before heading off to work, you sit down at the table with a cup of coffee, a bowl of cereal and the local paper spread out in front of you. But as the Internet becomes ...
Scientists reveal the lifestyle evolution of wild marine bacteria
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May 22, 2008 |
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Marine bacteria in the wild organize into professions or lifestyle groups that partition many resources rather than competing for them, so that microbes with one lifestyle, such as free-floating cells, flourish ...
Oregano oil works as well as synthetic insecticides to tackle common beetle pest
May 22, 2008 |
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New research in the Society of Chemical Industry’s Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture shows that oregano oil works as well as synthetic insecticides to combat infestation by a common beetle, Rhizoppertha domini ...
