Researchers Find New Evidence of Early Horse Domestication
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 26, 2006 |
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Soil from a Copper Age site in northern Kazakhstan has yielded new evidence for domesticated horses up to 5,600 years ago. Researchers from the Carnegie Museum of Natural History and the University of Pittsburgh have discovered ...
Bacterial 'Switch Gene' Regulates How Oceans Emit Sulfur into Atmosphere
Oct 26, 2006 |
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Scientists have discovered a bacterial "switch gene" in two groups of microscopic plankton common in the oceans. The gene helps determine whether certain marine plankton convert a sulfur compound to one that rises into the ...
Scientists Develop New Treatments for Alzheimer’s Disease
Oct 26, 2006 |
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Scientists at the University of Liverpool have created a new chemical compound that could be developed into a drug treatment for Alzheimer’s disease.
Twisted Molecule: Large and Folded Like Protein -- But Completely Synthetic
Oct 26, 2006 |
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The physiological functions of proteins depend on their folding into a particular spatial structure (tertiary structure): enzymes and their substrates must fit together like the proverbial lock and key. It has recently been ...
Europe goes searching for rocky planets
Oct 26, 2006 |
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The COROT space telescope is proceeding smoothly towards its launch in December 2006. Once in orbit, COROT will become the first spacecraft devoted to the search for rocky planets, similar to our own Earth.
Ashmolean opens online coin bank
Oct 26, 2006 |
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The Ashmolean Museum has just launched the most advanced coin website in the world. Roman Provincial Coinage Online comprises one of the largest collections of images and related inscriptions from the ancient ...
Grandparents key to China's expansion
Oct 26, 2006 |
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Rural China's elders care for grandchildren after parents migrate to urban centers and now a U.S. study finds that is a key factor in China's expansion.
CT screening improves lung cancer survival
Oct 26, 2006 |
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A U.S. study has determined annual, low-dose computerized tomography, or CT, screening increases lung cancer survival rates.
Conjoined twins delivered
Oct 26, 2006 |
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A team of 16 Canadian doctors at a Vancouver hospital succeeded in delivering conjoined twin girls after a 65-minute caesarean section procedure on the mother.
Journal defends accused medical workers
Oct 26, 2006 |
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The scientific journal Nature says it has concluded six medical workers who face the death penalty in Libya are probably innocent of charges.
Russia fights bird flu, no human cases
Oct 26, 2006 |
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Russia said it has fought an outbreak of bird flu among birds in the country, and the infection has not spread to humans.
NASA Invention of the Year winner named
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 26, 2006 |
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A groundwater treatment technology developed at the Kennedy Space Center has been named NASA's 2005 Government Invention of the Year.
FDA expands glucose test strip warning
Oct 26, 2006 |
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has expanded its warning concerning the sale of counterfeit blood glucose test strips.
450 quakes recorded on Russian peninsula
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 26, 2006 |
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An erupting volcano on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula set off as many as 450 earthquakes in the local area on a single day.
Receivers key to Galileo success
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 26, 2006 |
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Europe's navigation system requires new receiver designs to make use of the transmissions from its satellite constellation. European industry is developing and supplying receivers for the in-orbit validation ...
