Scientist says Hittites began bioterrorism
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 26, 2007 |
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Italian researcher Siro Trevisanato says he believes the ancient Hittite empire was the first to use biological warfare.
Children's Bad Behavior Gives Insights to Academic Achievement and Later Career Success
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 26, 2007 |
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New research suggests that children entering school with behavior problems, as a rule, can keep pace with classroom learning, but persistent behavior problems can be a strong indicator of how well these students ...
New T-ray source could improve airport security, cancer detection
Nov 26, 2007 |
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Going through airport security can be such a hassle. Shoes, laptops, toothpastes, watches and belts all get taken off, taken out, scanned, examined, handled and repacked. But "T-rays", a completely safe form ...
Watch Out for Flying Moondust
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 26, 2007 |
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At Cape Canaveral, not far from the launch pad where the space shuttle lifts off, there's a ragged hole in a chain link fence. Its message: Watch out for flying boulders.
Self-sabotage: New research sheds light on why some people can't handle success
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 26, 2007 |
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New research shows that how people view their abilities in the workplace impacts how they respond to success. Dr. Jason Plaks, a social psychologist at the University of Toronto and Kristin Stecher, a research scientist ...
Double antennas deliver double the signal
Nov 26, 2007 |
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Digital TV transmission techniques that deliver most benefit in the worst reception environments have been developed by a consortium of European researchers. The technologies promise to reduce the network infrastructure needed ...
UCLA mathematician works to make virtual surgery a reality
Nov 26, 2007 |
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A surgeon accidently kills a patient, undoes the error and starts over again. Can mathematics make such science fiction a reality?
Planting carbon deep in the earth -- rather than the greenhouse
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 26, 2007 |
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Storing carbon dioxide deep below the earth’s surface could be a safe, long-term solution to one of the planet’s major contributors to climate change.
Environmental researchers propose radical 'human-centric' map of the world
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 26, 2007 |
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Ecologists pay too much attention to increasingly rare "pristine" ecosystems while ignoring the overwhelming influence of humans on the environment, say researchers from McGill University and the University of Maryland, Baltimore ...
Omega-3 fatty acids protect against Parkinson's, study says
Nov 26, 2007 |
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Omega-3 fatty acids protect the brain against Parkinson’s disease, according to a study by Université Laval researchers published in the online edition of the FASEB Journal, the journal of the Federation of American Societies ...
New method of drug delivery more effective at reaching brain tumors
Nov 26, 2007 |
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Bioengineers at Yale and Cornell have created a modified chemotherapy that more effectively reaches and remains at the site of brain tumors — by adding a water-soluble polymer to the anti-cancer drug, according to a report ...
A vitamin B12 derivative could potentially be used to treat hypertension and heart disease
Nov 26, 2007 |
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Investigators at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have developed a new drug called nitrosyl-cobinamide. Cobinamide is a vitamin B12 analog, and, in fact, is the penultimate compound in the biosynthesis ...
Burning out? Try logging off
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 26, 2007 |
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You might think that a long vacation is the way to beat job burnout. But the kind of vacation you have is just as important – if not more important – than its length, concludes Prof. Dov Eden, an organizational psychologist ...
Doctors and patients poorly informed about herpes
Nov 26, 2007 |
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Family doctors and patients with herpes are poorly informed about the viral infection, indicate the results of an online survey, published ahead of print in the journal Sexually Transmitted Infections.
Single-cell sensitive biological sensor works in liquid
Nov 26, 2007 |
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Microscopic, magnetized balls of Styrofoam have been turned into inexpensive biological sensors in a University of Michigan laboratory.
