Racing the clock: Rapid climate change forces scientists to evaluate extreme conservation strategies
May 25, 2009 |
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Scientists are, for the first time, objectively evaluating ways to help species adapt to rapid climate change and other environmental threats via strategies that were considered too radical for serious consideration as recently ...
Voyage to the centre of the 'Plastic Vortex'
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 25, 2009 |
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A group of conservationists and scientists is due to set sail for an obscure corner of the Pacific Ocean in the coming months to explore a vast swirl of waste known as the "Plastic Vortex."
Climate change amplifying animal disease
May 25, 2009 |
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Climate change is widening viral disease among farm animals, expanding the spread of some microbes that are also a known risk to humans, the world's top agency for animal health said on Monday.
Too much entanglement can render quantum computers useless
May 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- "For certain tasks, quantum computers are more powerful than their classical counterparts. The task to be performed is the same for quantum or classical systems. However, the former ones can do it in a more ...
Legalize it? Medical evidence on marijuana blows both ways
May 25, 2009 |
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Sparked anew by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's call for the state to study the legalization of marijuana, both sides in the smoldering pot debate point to research to bolster their positions.
Opposites attract -- how genetics influences humans to choose their mates
May 25, 2009 |
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New light has been thrown on how humans choose their partners, a scientist will tell the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics today. Professor Maria da Graça Bicalho, head of the Immunogenetics and ...
Necessity is the mother of invention for clever birds (w/Videos)
May 25, 2009 |
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Researchers at the Universities of Cambridge and Queen Mary, University of London have found that rooks, a member of the crow family, are capable of using and making tools, modifying them to make them work and using two tools ...
Brain-behavior disconnect in cocaine addiction
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Parts of the brain involved in monitoring behaviors and emotions show different levels of activity in cocaine users relative to non-drug users, even when both groups perform equally well on ...
Head movement is more important than gender in nonverbal communication (w/Video)
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
May 25, 2009 |
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It is well known that people use head motion during conversation to convey a range of meanings and emotions, and that women use more active head motion when conversing with each other than men use when they talk with each ...
Australian team reveals world-first discovery in a 'floppy baby' syndrome
May 25, 2009 |
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In a world first, West Australian scientists have cured mice of a devastating muscle disease that causes a Floppy Baby Syndrome - a breakthrough that could ultimately help thousands of families across the globe.
Questions from end of stair-climbing wheelchair
May 25, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The nation's first stair-climbing wheelchair hit the market with a bang but disappeared with a whimper, a casualty of price that raises a big question: How much will society agree to pay for high-tech ...
US won't speed up emissions cuts
May 25, 2009 |
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Domestic politics will not allow the United States to deepen it commitment for cutting carbon pollution over the next decade despite growing international pressure, Washington's top climate negotiator said ...
Colorful columns: Simple method for the production of microcylinders with multiple compartments
May 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Under a microscope they look like tiny pie charts or colorful candy canes: A team led by Joerg Lahann at the University of Michigan has been able to produce micrometer-wide discs and elongated rods precisely ...
Immune genes adapt to parasites
May 25, 2009 |
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Thank parasites for making some of our immune proteins into the inflammatory defenders they are today, according to a population genetics study that will appear in the June 8 issue of the Journal of Experimental Medicine (onlin ...
EarthTalk: What is 'nanotechnology'?
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
May 25, 2009 |
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Dear EarthTalk: What is "nanotechnology"? I've heard that nanoparticles are already in consumer products, yet we haven't really studied their potential health impacts. (Dan Zeff, San Francisco)
