Swiss team unveil pioneering solar plane
Jun 26, 2009 |
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Round-the-world balloooning pioneer Bertrand Piccard unveiled his solar-powered aircraft in Switzerland on Friday, ready for another trend-setting circumnavigation of the globe powered solely by the sun.
In the warming West, climate most significant factor in fanning wildfires' flames
Jun 26, 2009 |
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The recent increase in area burned by wildfires in the Western United States is a product not of higher temperatures or longer fire seasons alone, but a complex relationship between climate and fuels that varies among different ...
Ulysses space mission to end
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 26, 2009 |
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After 18.6 years in space and defying several earlier expectations of its demise, the joint ESA/NASA solar orbiter Ulysses will achieve 'end of mission' on 30 June 2009. The final communication pass with a ...
Rating attractiveness: Study finds consensus among men, not women
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 26, 2009 |
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Hot or not? Men agree on the answer. Women don't.
Researchers pinpoint a new enemy for tumor-suppressor p53
Jun 26, 2009 |
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Researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center have identified a protein that marks the tumor suppressor p53 for destruction, providing a potential new avenue for restoring p53 in cancer ...
Why Saints Sin and Sinners Get Saintly
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- To many, New York Gov. Eliott Spitzer's fall from grace seemed to make no sense at all. But a new Northwestern University study offers provocative insights that possibly could relate to why the storm trooper ...
Jellyfish Robot Swims Like its Biological Counterpart
Jun 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- "Jellyfish are one of the most awesome marine animals, doing a spectacular and psychedelic dance in water," explain engineers Sung-Weon Yeom and Il-Kwon Oh from Chonnam National University ...
Implant bacteria, beware: Researchers create nano-sized assassins
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jun 26, 2009 |
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Staphylococcus epidermidis is quite an opportunist. Commonly found on human skin, the bacteria pose little danger. But S. epidermidis is a leading cause of infections in hospitals. From catheters to prosthetic ...
Evidence that cognitive therapy is of no value in schizophrenia
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 26, 2009 |
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Research co-led by an academic at the University of Hertfordshire, concludes that Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is of no value in schizophrenia and has limited effect on depression.
Bush's court appointments emphasized ideology over diversity
Jun 26, 2009 |
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The judicial appointments of former president George W. Bush suggests that his motivation for appointing nontraditional judges was driven more by ideology and strategy than concerns for diversity, a new analysis shows.
Study shows 1 in 25 deaths worldwide attributable to alcohol
Jun 26, 2009 |
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Research from Canada's own Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) featured in this week's edition of the Lancet shows that worldwide, 1 in 25 deaths are directly attributable to alcohol consumption. This rise since ...
Tryptophan deficiency may underlie quinine side effects
Jun 26, 2009 |
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Researchers have found that the anti-malarial drug quinine can block a cell's ability to take up the essential amino acid tryptophan, a discovery that may explain many of the adverse side-effects associated ...
Dolphins get a lift from delta wing technology
Jun 26, 2009 |
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We can only marvel at the way that dolphins, whales and porpoises scythe through water. Their finlike flippers seem perfectly adapted for maximum aquatic agility. However, no one had ever analysed how the animals' ...
Scientists identify key factor that controls HIV latency
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jun 26, 2009 |
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Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes of Virology and Immunology (GIVI) have found another clue that may lead to eradication of HIV from infected patients who have been on antiretroviral therapy. A real cure for HIV has ...
Lawmakers, activists battle over mountaintop removal coal mining
Jun 26, 2009 |
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Coal industry advocates and environmentalists converged on Capitol Hill on Thursday at a congressional hearing on the impact of mountaintop removal mining on Appalachian streams and rivers.
