Archive: 10/25/2007
First IVM babies born in United Kingdom
The first babies in the United Kingdom to be conceived by in vitro maturation without fertility drugs -- have been born.
Oct 25, 2007 |
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How to design a cancer-killing virus
One new way to treat individuals with cancer that is being developed is the use of viruses that infect and kill cancer cells while leaving normal cells unharmed. These viruses are known as virotherapeutics. In a new study, ...
Oct 25, 2007 |
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Nokia Launches Free Indie Music Download Site
Nokia has just launched the Independent Artists Club (IAC), a Web site (http://web-iac.nokia-asia.com) where anyone can go to listen to and download free songs submitted by independent musicians. ...
Oct 25, 2007 |
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String Theory's Next Top Model
Ernest Rutherford used to tell his physics students that if they couldn't explain a concept to a barmaid, they didn't really understand the concept. With regard to the cosmological implications of string theory, ...
Oct 25, 2007 |
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Probing Question: How does anesthesia work?
Many inventions of the 19th century -- telephones, airplanes, phonographs -- have helped to shape the modern world. However, it could be argued that the 1846 discovery of effective surgical anesthesia holds a place of honor ...
Oct 25, 2007 |
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Missing Black Hole Report: Hundreds Found!
Astronomers have unmasked hundreds of black holes hiding deep inside dusty galaxies billions of light-years away.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 25, 2007 |
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Decision-makers seek internal balance, not balanced alternatives
A researcher at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine suggests that psychiatrists may need to approach the treatment of psychiatric patients from a new direction – by understanding that such individuals’ ...
Oct 25, 2007 |
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Linguists looking for a Pacific Northwest dialect
Linguists generally believe the West is too young to have evolved separate identifiable accent features or words, as has happened in other areas of the United States, and they usually lump together everyone living west of ...
Oct 25, 2007 |
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Like it or not, uncertainty and climate change go hand in hand
Despite decades of ever more-exacting science projecting Earth's warming climate, there remains large uncertainty about just how much warming will actually occur.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 25, 2007 |
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Alice on Trial, Redux
When Alice revs her engine at the start of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Urban Challenge qualifying rounds on October 27, multitudes of cameras will be pointing at her. But she'll only ...
Oct 25, 2007 |
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Seismologists see Earth's interior as interplay between temperature, pressure and chemistry
Seismologists in recent years have recast their understanding of the inner workings of Earth from a relatively benign homogeneous environment to one that is highly dynamic and chemically diverse. This new ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 25, 2007 |
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Scientists discover possible cosmic defect, remnant from Big Bang
Scientists from the Institute of Physics of Cantabria (IFCA) and the University of Cambridge may have discovered an example of a cosmic defect, a remnant from the Big Bang called a texture. If confirmed, their discovery, ...
Oct 25, 2007 |
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U of I scientist does nutritional detective work in Botswana
Many Americans have a soft spot for Botswana, developed while reading the best-selling #1 Ladies Detective Agency series. But few have had a chance to do any sleuthing of their own in that African country.
Oct 25, 2007 |
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Ancient DNA reveals that some Neanderthals were redheads
Ancient DNA retrieved from the bones of two Neanderthals suggests that at least some of them had red hair and pale skin, scientists report this week in the journal Science. The international team says that N ...
Biology /
Oct 25, 2007 |
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Study shows housing development on the rise near national forests
America’s national forests and grasslands provide the largest single source of freshwater in the United States, habitat for a third of all federally listed threatened or endangered species, and recreation opportunities for ...
Oct 25, 2007 |
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