Archive: 07/24/2007
Scientists unveil the 'face' of a new memory
A century-old dream of neuroscientists to visualize a memory has been fulfilled, as University of California, Irvine researchers, using newly developing microscopic techniques, have captured first-time images of the changes ...
Jul 24, 2007 |
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Earliest evidence of peanut, cotton, squash farming
Anthropologists working on the slopes of the Andes in northern Peru have discovered the earliest-known evidence of peanut, cotton and squash farming dating back 5,000 to 9,000 years.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jul 24, 2007 |
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Examining obesity: What should we eat?
By reviewing thousands of research reports, UC scientists were able to pin down four factors that are most likely to cause overweight and obesity in America: the consumption of dietary fat, sweetened beverages and restaurant ...
Jul 24, 2007 |
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Enzyme discovery sheds light on vitamin D
Surprising findings by Queen’s University researchers have shed new light on how the “sunshine vitamin” D – increasingly used to treat and prevent cancer and other diseases – is broken down by our bodies.
Jul 24, 2007 |
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Unique Quantum Effect Found in Silicon Nanocrystals
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory, collaborating with Innovalight, Inc., have shown that a new and important effect called Multiple Exciton Generation (MEG) occurs efficiently ...
Jul 24, 2007 |
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Fujitsu to Release 200 GB 2.5'' Hard Disk Drive Designed for 24-hour Continuous Operation
Fujitsu Limited today announced that it has developed the new MHY2 BS Series of 2.5" hard disk drives, which are designed for 24-hour continuous operation and are available in storage capacities of up to 200 ...
Jul 24, 2007 |
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Small Footprint, Big Impression
North Carolina State University’s paleontologists may have a small physical “footprint” on campus, but the researchers have managed to make a pretty big impression on the world nonetheless.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jul 24, 2007 |
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Spitzer Finds Evidence for Planets with Four Parents
How many stars does it take to "raise" a planet? In our own solar system, it took only one – our sun. However, new research from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows that planets might sometimes form in systems ...
Jul 24, 2007 |
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The Sun Loses its Spots
While sidewalks crackle in the summer heat, NASA scientists are keeping a close eye on the sun. It is almost spotless, a sign that the Sun may have reached solar minimum. Scientists are now watching for the ...
Jul 24, 2007 |
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Renewable energy wrecks environment, scientist claims
Renewable does not mean green. That is the claim of Jesse Ausubel of the Rockefeller University in New York. Writing in Inderscience's International Journal of Nuclear Governance, Economy and Ecology, Ausubel explains that b ...
Jul 24, 2007 |
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The future of medicine: Insert chip, cure disease?
Imagine a chip, strategically placed in the brain, that could prevent epileptic seizures or allow someone who has lost a limb to control an artificial arm just by thinking about it.
Jul 24, 2007 |
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Two New Intel Controllers Streamline Multicore Networking Performance
Intel Corporation today announced two new Ethernet controllers that facilitate high traffic flow and optimize I/O performance in such enterprise server environments as multicore Intel Xeon processor-based systems and virtualized ...
Jul 24, 2007 |
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Study: U.S. rule is hurting HIV fight
A new study suggests the United States is hurting the fight against the human immunodeficiency virus with its anti-prostitution rule.
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jul 24, 2007 |
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Free day care planned at autism event
Some of the more than 2,000 people expected at Penn State University next week for the U.S. National Autism Conference will receive free daycare.
Jul 24, 2007 |
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Iron and copper relationship is studied
U.S. scientists studying the relationship of iron and copper in the body have found when iron absorption by cells decreases, copper absorption increases.
Jul 24, 2007 |
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