An alternative theory on cancer
Jun 27, 2007 |
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Thirty-six years into the war on cancer, scientists have not only failed to come up with a cure, but most of the newer drugs suffer from the same problems as those available in the pre-war days: serious toxicity, ...
Astronomer Offers New Theory Into 400-year-old Lunar Mystery
Jun 27, 2007 |
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Columbia astronomy professor Arlin Crotts thinks he has solved a 400-year-old mystery: the origin of strange optical flashes often reported as appearing on the moon’s surface.
Quantum computing on an everyday PC
Jun 27, 2007 |
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Scientists have successfully simulated a collision of two laser beams from an atom laser using an everyday desktop computer.
Brain scans show meditation changes minds, increases attention
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 27, 2007 |
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For hundreds of years, Tibetan monks and other religious people have used meditation to calm the mind and improve concentration. This week, a new study shows exactly how one common type of meditation affects the brain.
A study confirms the importance of sexual fantasies in the experience of sexual desire
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 27, 2007 |
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Scientists of the Department of Personality, Evaluation and Psychological Treatment of the University of Granada (Universidad de Granada) have studied how some psychological variables such as erotophilia (positive attitude ...
Tactile sensor acts as a human finger in minimally invasive surgery
Jun 27, 2007 |
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Researchers have designed a millimeter-sized sensor that has many of the tactile abilities of a human finger: it can sense the magnitude and the position of an applied force, slippage of a grasping tool, and ...
IBM Triples Performance of World's Fastest Supercomputer
Jun 27, 2007 |
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IBM’s newest supercomputer, Blue Gene/P, is nearly three times as fast as its predecessor and is designed to fit in smaller spaces and use less electricity than other commercially available models.
Neutron stars join the black hole jet set
Jun 27, 2007 |
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NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has revealed an X-ray jet blasting away from a neutron star in a binary system. This discovery may help astronomers understand how neutron stars as well as black holes can ...
Nanoparticles hitchhike on red blood cells: a potential new method for drug delivery
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jun 27, 2007 |
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Researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara have discovered that attaching polymeric nanoparticles to the surface of red blood cells dramatically increases the in vivo lifetime of the nanoparticles. ...
Alzheimer's drug begins human trials
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jun 27, 2007 |
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Human clinical trials are under way for a U.S. drug to treat Alzheimer's disease, based on the design of a Purdue University researcher.
Autism theory put to the test with new technology
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 27, 2007 |
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Next time you lose your car keys and enlist the family to help you search, try a little experiment. After your spouse searches an area, go and look in the same place. It will likely feel strange, even irritating to both of ...
Tasmanian Tiger Extinction Mystery
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Jun 27, 2007 |
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A University of Adelaide project led by zoologist Dr Jeremy Austin is investigating whether the world-fabled Tasmanian Tiger may have survived beyond its reported extinction in the late 1930s.
Pairing nanoparticles with proteins
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jun 27, 2007 |
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In groundbreaking research, scientists have demonstrated the ability to strategically attach gold nanoparticles -- particles on the order of billionths of a meter -- to proteins so as to form sheets of protein-gold arrays.
Ion flow through membrane channels is dictated by particle size
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Jun 27, 2007 |
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Ion channels are small passageways that control the movement of electrically charged particles across a cell’s membrane. But they’re persnickety gatekeepers: Each channel allows only one kind of ion to flow through. Now, ...
Several tons of uranium and a town called Colonie
Jun 27, 2007 |
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Recent research by the Department of Geology at University of Leicester, and at the British Geological Survey aims to improve understanding of how depleted uranium particulate behaves in the environment. PhD research student ...
