Archive: 10/24/2008
University of Western Ontario cameras capture 'fireball'
For the second time this year, The University of Western Ontario Meteor Group has captured incredibly rare video footage of a meteor falling to Earth. The team of astronomers suspects the fireball dropped meteorites in a ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 24, 2008 |
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Answering the Question:'Which Drug Therapy Is Right for Me?'
(PhysOrg.com) -- UA pharmacy researchers aim to unravel a mystery: why do genetically similar people react differently to the same drug.
Oct 24, 2008 |
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The slow-spin zone at the core of the sun
(PhysOrg.com) -- The dense, hot, radioactive core of the Sun rotates significantly more slowly than the layer next to it, the radiative zone, a Stanford solar physicist has concluded.
Oct 24, 2008 |
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Study will examine how children with Down syndrome learn
Researchers at the University of Denver (DU) Morgridge College of Education are conducting a groundbreaking study that will compare two early literacy intervention approaches to educating young children with Down syndrome. ...
Oct 24, 2008 |
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Oceans may provide clues to future rainfall
(PhysOrg.com) -- Changes in the salinity of our oceans are being brought about by man's influence on our climate, suggests new research conducted by the Met Office Hadley Centre and the Walker Institute for Climate System ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 24, 2008 |
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Bumblebees learn the sweet smell of foraging success
Bumblebees use flower scent to guide their nest-mates to good food sources, according to scientists from Queen Mary, University of London.
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Oct 24, 2008 |
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They are rich who have true friends - mates are key to happiness, new research shows
(PhysOrg.com) -- When friends meet, hearts warm, according to the old proverb — and new research from The University of Nottingham backs this up.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 24, 2008 |
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Climate Change Seeps into the Sea
(PhysOrg.com) -- Good news has turned out to be bad. The ocean has helped slow global warming by absorbing much of the excess heat and heat-trapping carbon dioxide that has been going into the atmosphere since ...
Oct 24, 2008 |
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Ice-cream better licked than spooned says food expert
(PhysOrg.com) -- Does ice-cream actually taste better when it is licked from a cone than when eaten from a spoon?
Oct 24, 2008 |
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Enabling the blind to find their way
(PhysOrg.com) -- “Eyes on the future” is the mantra of the ‘World Sight Day’ held this month to raise awareness of blindness and vision impairment. New technologies, developed by European researchers offering the visually ...
Oct 24, 2008 |
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Successful first test for Vega's Zefiro 9-A solid-fuel rocket motor
Yesterday, the Zefiro 9-A motor successfully completed its first firing test at the Salto di Quirra Inter-force Test Range in Sardinia (Italy). This was the penultimate firing test for the engine prior to ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 24, 2008 |
4.3 / 5 (4) |
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Depression may increase exacerbations, hospitalizations in COPD
It is well known that patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) frequently suffer from depression and anxiety, but according to new research, depression and anxiety may actually cause increased hospitalizations ...
Oct 24, 2008 |
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New molecules with many branches will help unleash potential of nanotechnology
Materials science and the pharmaceutical industry could soon be revolutionized by emerging nanotechnologies based on designer molecules with long complex tree-and branch structures. Such molecules offer almost limitless scope ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Oct 24, 2008 |
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Newly-discovered mechanism can explain the Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome
Researchers from Uppsala University have discovered a mechanism that silences several genes in a chromosome domain. The findings, published in today's on-line issue of Molecular Cell, have implications in understanding the hu ...
Oct 24, 2008 |
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Toxic bile damages the liver
Researchers at the Heidelberg University Hospital have discovered a new genetic disease that can lead to severe liver damage. Because a protective component of the bile is missing, the liver cells are exposed to the toxic ...
Oct 24, 2008 |
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