Biology enters 'The Matrix' through new computer language
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Ever since the human genome was sequenced less than 10 years ago, researchers have been able to access a dizzying plethora of genomic information with a simple click of a mouse. This digitizing of genomic data—and its public ...
Exercise could be the heart's fountain of youth
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Absence may make the heart grow fonder, but endurance exercise seems to make it younger. According to a study conducted at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, older people who did endurance exercise training ...
Graphics processing installation to boost Argonne's Blue Gene/P visualization capabilities
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The IBM Blue Gene/P Intrepid at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), located at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, will soon have the data analytics ...
Dinosaurrific! New Dinosaur Supertree
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It has long been debated whether dinosaurs were part of the ‘Terrestrial Revolution’ that occurred some 100 million years ago during the Cretaceous when birds, mammals, flowering plants, insects ...
Why eating less can help the environment
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An estimated 19 percent of total energy used in the USA is taken up in the production and supply of food. Currently, this mostly comes from non-renewable energy sources which are in short supply. It is therefore of paramount ...
New life given to ancient Egyptian texts stored at Stanford for decades
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Jul 23, 2008 |
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They're torn and faded and have the woven texture of a flattened Triscuit. At first glance, the ancient Egyptian texts look like scraps of garbage. And more than 2,000 years ago, that's exactly what they were—discarded ...
Costs of climate change, state-by-state: Billions, says UMD
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Climate change will carry a price tag of billions of dollars for a number of U.S. states, says a new series of reports from the University of Maryland's Center for Integrative Environmental Research (CIER). The researchers ...
Durham scientists to tackle CO2 storage in global warming challenge
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Scientists at Durham University (UK) are working on new ways of storing CO2 emissions underground to help in the fight against global warming.
Study predicts crop-production costs will jump dramatically in 2009
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Soaring energy prices will yield sharp increases for corn and soybean production next year, cutting into farmers' profits and stretching already high food costs, according to a new University of Illinois study.
New Membrane Model May Unlock Secrets of Early-Stage Alzheimer's
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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and three collaborating institutions are using a new laboratory model of the membrane surrounding neurons in the brain to study how a protein ...
Slippery Customer: A Greener Antiwear Additive for Engine Oils
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Titanium, a protean element with applications from pigments to aerospace alloys, could get a new role as an environmentally friendly additive for automotive oil, thanks to work by materials ...
Scientists suspect omega-3 fatty acids could slow acute wound healing
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A recent study shows that popular fish oil supplements have an effect on the healing process of small, acute wounds in human skin. But whether that effect is detrimental, as researchers initially suspected, remains a mystery.
Category 2 Hurricane Dolly Crosses South Padre Island, Texas
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At 12:00 p.m. CDT (1:00 p.m. EDT) Dolly's eye was located near latitude 26.2 north and longitude 97.0 west or about 35 miles northeast of Brownsville, Texas, and she was crossing South Padre Island.
Biofilms use chemical weapons
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Bacteria rarely come as loners; more often they grow in crowds and squat on surfaces where they form a community together. These so-called biofilms develop on any surface that bacteria can attach themselves ...
Sandia to Demonstrate Hyperspectral Confocal Fluorescence Microscope
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Sandia National Laboratories will demonstrate a new hyperspectral confocal fluorescence microscope Friday, Aug. 8 from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. MDT in Bldg. 897 on Kirtland Air Force Base. This patent-protected and patent-pending technology ...
