Nanodisk Codes
Dec 27, 2007 |
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Researchers at Northwestern University have devised a way to use billionth-of-a-meter-sized disks to create codes that could be used to encrypt information, serve as biological labels, and even tag and track ...
Researchers discover fast-acting cyanide antidote
Dec 27, 2007 |
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University of Minnesota Center for Drug Design and Minneapolis VA Medical Center researchers have discovered a new fast-acting antidote to cyanide poisoning. The antidote has potential to save lives of those who are exposed ...
How do you know whether you are male or female?
Biology /
Dec 27, 2007 |
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New research published online this week in the open-access journal PLoS Biology investigates this basic and much-studied question in the fruit fly, and comes to a surprising new conclusion.
Jets Are a Real Drag
Dec 27, 2007 |
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Astronomers have found the best evidence yet of matter spiraling outward from a young, still-forming star in fountain-like jets. Due to the spiral motion, the jets help the star to grow by drawing angular ...
New research tools are too complex for easy answers, researchers say
Dec 27, 2007 |
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Scientists who study cancer may be prone to drawing simplistic conclusions from the powerful molecular tools now available because they don’t appreciate how complex the data is that is being generated, said a team of Georgetown ...
Researchers show that fibrosis can be stopped, cured and reversed
Dec 27, 2007 |
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University of California, San Diego researchers have proven in animal studies that fibrosis in the liver can be not only stopped, but reversed. Their discovery, to be published in PLoS Online on December 26, opens the do ...
Study maps life in extreme environments
Biology /
Dec 27, 2007 |
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A team of biologists have developed a model mapping the control circuit governing a whole free living organism. This is an important milestone for the new field of systems biology and will allow the researchers to model how ...
Deep-sea species' loss could lead to oceans' collapse, study suggests
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Dec 27, 2007 |
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The loss of deep-sea species poses a severe threat to the future of the oceans, suggests a new report publishing early online on December 27th and in the January 8th issue of Current Biology, a publication of Cell Press. ...
Panasonic Starts Sample Shipments of World's Thinnest, 9.5 mm Height, Blu-ray Disc Drives
Dec 27, 2007 |
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Panasonic today announced that the company has started shipping samples of the world's thinnest (9.5 mm height) internal Blu-ray Disc (BD) drives to personal computer manufacturers.
High triglycerides, other cholesterol raise risk of stroke
Dec 27, 2007 |
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People with high triglycerides and another type of cholesterol tested but not usually evaluated as part of a person’s risk assessment have an increased risk of a certain type of stroke, according to research published in ...
Clean coal plants mired by cost and delays
Dec 27, 2007 |
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Clean coal-fired plants offer a cleaner fuel source but construction costs and increased greenhouse gas standards in the United States hamper their production.
New book sheds light on conflicts of politics and science
Dec 27, 2007 |
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From stem cell research to needle exchanges to medical marijuana and HIV/AIDS prevention, politics is getting in the way of science, according to a new book by a leading authority on health-care policy and women's health ...
New thermal-imaging technique may help victims of head and neck cancers
Dec 27, 2007 |
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When University of Chicago head-and-neck cancer researcher Cindy Bajda felt a raised bump on the bottom of her mouth, she'd spent too much time around oral cancer patients to have any doubt as to her diagnosis.
Subliminal messages can influence us in surprising ways
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 27, 2007 |
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Flag waving is a metaphor for stirring up the public towards adopting a more nationalistic, generally hard-line stance. Indeed, “rally ‘round the flag” is a venerable expression of this phenomenon.
Fight against hay fever and other allergies helped by new immune system discovery
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Dec 27, 2007 |
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A mechanism which can lead to hay fever and other allergic reactions, by preventing the immune system from regulating itself properly, has been discovered by scientists. Researchers hope their finding, published today in ...
