Archive: 10/26/2007
Video shows buckyballs form by 'shrink wrapping'
The birth secret of buckyballs -- hollow spheres of carbon no wider than a strand of DNA -- has been caught on tape by researchers at Sandia National Laboratory and Rice University. An electron microscope video and computer ...
Oct 26, 2007 |
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Boiled peanuts pack big antioxidant punch
Boiled peanuts, a regional treat from the southern United States, may be as healthy as they are delicious. In the Oct. 31 issue of ACS' Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Alabama scientists report ...
Oct 26, 2007 |
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World's hottest chile pepper discovered
Researchers at New Mexico State University recently discovered the world’s hottest chile pepper.
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The Last Supper Will Travel The Internet At 16 Billion Pixels
HAL 9000 will send The Last Supper by Leonardo Da Vinci soaring through the Internet on October 27, 2007 with a high density view of 16 billion pixels. The time given for the launch is 9:30 A.M. Central European ...
Oct 26, 2007 |
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Napping doesn't impair nighttime sleep, research finds
Concerned that a midday snooze might ruin a good night's sleep? Fret not; ongoing research from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center indicates that napping has little effect on sleep onset -- and that ...
Oct 26, 2007 |
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Researchers race ahead with latest spintronics achievement
In a rapid follow-up to their achievement as the first to demonstrate how an electron's spin can be electrically injected, controlled and detected in silicon, electrical engineers from the University of Delaware ...
Oct 26, 2007 |
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NIST Demos Industrial-Grade Nanowire Device Fabrication
In the growing catalog of nanoscale technologies, nanowires—tiny rows of conductor or semiconductor atoms—have attracted a great deal of interest for their potential to build unique atomic-scale electronics. ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 26, 2007 |
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Going Live With Click Chemistry
Click chemistry, one of the most exciting and proficient new techniques for labeling biomolecules in vitro, has now been extended to studies in the context of live cells as well. This breakthrough opens the ...
Oct 26, 2007 |
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Predators and parasites may increase evolutionary stability
A new study explores the role of natural enemies, such as predators and parasites, for mixed mating, a reproductive strategy in which hermaphroditic plants and animals reproduce through both self- and cross-fertilization. ...
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Oct 26, 2007 |
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Exactly how sensitive is our climate? It may not matter...
Scientists from Oxford University have suggested that climate researchers and policy makers ought to worry less about working out exactly how sensitive Earth's climate will be to a doubling of carbon dioxide ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 26, 2007 |
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New fowlpox vaccine available
A new vaccine developed by CSIRO Livestock Industries to help control the common poultry disease, fowlpox, has been registered for commercial use by one of Australia’s leading animal health companies, Intervet ...
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Mystery Comet Explodes into Brightness
A once-faint comet has made a sudden leap from obscurity to center stage. Comet 17P/Holmes, now visible to northern hemisphere residents, increased its brightness by a factor of one million this week, going ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 26, 2007 |
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Persistence pays off
Chemists have come remarkably close to mimicking a type of protein previously thought impossible to imitate. The long-term application of this work could be in the development of new types of glucose sensors ...
Oct 26, 2007 |
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Obesity-related hormone is higher in children with Down syndrome
Children with Down syndrome are more likely than their unaffected siblings to have higher levels of a hormone associated with obesity, according to pediatric researchers. The hormone, leptin, may contribute to the known higher ...
Oct 26, 2007 |
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Helicobacter pylori inhibits intercellular communication of cultured gastric cells
The formation of a cancer is proven to be a multi-stage, multi-mechanism process by animal and human studies. As a definite carcinogen, the role of Helicobacter pylori (H pylori) in the formation of gastric cancer has been ...
Oct 26, 2007 |
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