Archive: 11/23/2007
Man behind stem cell war may be peacemaker
The U.S. researcher who set off controversy by taking stem cells from human embryos may have quieted critics by creating a stem cell without using an embryo.
Biology /
Nov 23, 2007 |
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Docs try to close info gap on kids' meds
Ten years after the U.S. government began trying to ensure children's prescription drugs were safe, doctors still have little information to guide them.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Nov 23, 2007 |
3.5 / 5 (2) |
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Father-son team find Roman Briton remains
The skeleton of an ancient Roman Briton apparently with some social standing was found by two men who previously unearthed a $2 million Viking treasure.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 23, 2007 |
4.6 / 5 (9) |
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Museum receives reptile giraffe fossils
Bones of a 230 million-year-old "reptile giraffe" found during digs in the Alps' Besano glacier were presented at Milan's Natural History Museum.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 23, 2007 |
4.1 / 5 (7) |
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Researcher: Inuit culture in peril
Global warming could doom the hunting and fishing culture of the Inuit in Canada, an expert on the Arctic region says.
Nov 23, 2007 |
3.4 / 5 (9) |
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Illuminating Study Reveals How Plants Respond to Light
Most of us take it for granted that plants respond to light by growing, flowering and straining towards the light, and we never wonder just how plants manage to do so. But the ordinary, everyday responses ...
Biology /
Nov 23, 2007 |
4.6 / 5 (51) |
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Saturday Spacewalk to Complete Harmony Hookup to Station
A 6-hour, 30-minute spacewalk by International Space Station Commander Peggy Whitson and Flight Engineer Dan Tani will continue the external outfitting of the Harmony node in its new position in front of the ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 23, 2007 |
4.3 / 5 (4) |
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Columbus Poised for Research Breakthroughs
The research capacity of the International Space Station is set to double during a December NASA mission that is a milestone for European spaceflight.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 23, 2007 |
4.4 / 5 (5) |
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Europe's Galileo signals used for ocean remote sensing in space
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd and the University of Surrey have succeeded in detecting a weakly reflected Galileo signal off the ocean surface using the GPS Reflectometry Experiment on one of SSTL’s small satellites, UK-DMC. ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 23, 2007 |
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Transporting gold across physical boundaries
Achieving the desired effect is often only a question of the right place and the right moment - and this also applies to drugs. In order to be transported in the bloodstream, they need to be water-soluble. ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Nov 23, 2007 |
4.2 / 5 (23) |
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Scientists develop new high pressure experiment station
A group of Imperial chemists headed by Professor John Seddon are developing a new piece of equipment to carry out experiments at extremely high-pressures at Diamond Light Source, the UK's new national synchrotron ...
Nov 23, 2007 |
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Mars Express - 5000 orbits and counting
On 25 December 2003, Europe’s first Mars explorer arrived at the Red Planet. Almost four years later, Mars Express continues to rewrite the text books as its instruments send back a stream of images and other ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 23, 2007 |
4.3 / 5 (10) |
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What happens when dad looks after the kids?
According to new research from the University of Bristol, some fathers do not provide their young sons with the same quality of intellectual stimulation as mothers do. Boys who spend at least 15 hours a week in their father’s ...
Nov 23, 2007 |
3.8 / 5 (32) |
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U.S., S. Koreans team for research
A nanotechnology study will span the United States and the Pacific Ocean as University of Delaware professors team with South Korean counterparts.
Nov 23, 2007 |
5 / 5 (1) |
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Prenatal arsenic exposure detected in newborns
MIT researchers have found that the children of mothers whose water supplies were contaminated with arsenic during their pregnancies harbored gene expression changes that may lead to cancer and other diseases later in life. ...
Nov 23, 2007 |
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