Intestinal Bacteria Promote and Prevent Inflammatory Bowel Disease
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Scientists search for drug candidates in some very unlikely places. Not only do they churn out synthetic compounds in industrial-scale laboratories, but they also scour coral reefs and scrape tree bark in the hope of stumbling ...
Scientists in Japan design first optical pacemaker for laboratory research
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The world's first optical pacemaker is described in an article published today in Optics Express, the Optical Society’s open-access journal. A team of scientists at Osaka University in Japan show that powerful, but very s ...
'Barren' seafloor teeming with microbial life
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Once considered a barren plain with the odd hydrothermal vent, the seafloor appears to be teeming with microbial life, according to a paper being published May 29 in Nature. “A 60,000 kilometer seam of bas ...
Trauma of 9/11 appears to have altered brains, study suggests
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Healthy adults who were close to the World Trade Center during the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, have less gray matter in key emotion centers of their brains compared with people who were more than ...
Scholar explores mystery of the 'music-evoked frisson'
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Why are opera singers' voices so distinctive and powerful? Why can we pick them out, without the help of amplification, against the sound of more than 100 accompanying instruments?
New vegetarian food with several benefits
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A new vegetarian food that boosts the uptake of iron and offers a good set of proteins. This could be the result of a doctoral dissertation by Charlotte Eklund-Jonsson at the Department of Food Science, Chalmers University ...
Mind over matter: Monkey feeds itself using its brain
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A monkey has successfully fed itself with fluid, well-controlled movements of a human-like robotic arm by using only signals from its brain, researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine report in the journal ...
Ibuprofen, aspirin, naproxen may be equally effective at reducing risk of Alzheimer's disease
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Different types of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), such as ibuprofen, naproxen, and aspirin, appear to be equally effective in lowering the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, according to the largest study of its ...
Japanese plan to brew 'space beer'
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A Japanese brewery Tuesday said it was planning the first "space beer," using offspring of barley once stored at the International Space Station.
Researchers retrieve authentic Viking DNA from 1,000-year-old skeletons
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Although “Viking” literally means “pirate,” recent research has indicated that the Vikings were also traders to the fishmongers of Europe. Stereotypically, these Norsemen are usually pictured wearing a horned helmet but in ...
Life, but not as we know it?
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Researchers at The University of Nottingham have taken some important first steps to creating a synthetic copycat of a living cell, a leading science journal reports.
A new way to look at lung cancer and tobacco carcinogens
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Two types of cancer-causing agents in cigarettes—a nicotine-derived chemical and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are the main culprits in lung cancer. Exposure to tobacco smoke – both mainstream and ...
Acute artificial compound eyes
May 28, 2008 |
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Insects are a source of inspiration for technological development work. For example, researchers around the world are working on ultra-thin imaging systems based on the insect eye. The principle of hyperacuity ...
New breathing exercises help manage asthma
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A presentation that demonstrates breathing exercises designed to help reduce the use of asthma inhalers is today available to the general public for free from the Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) for Asthma and Airways website.
Phoenix Sees the Colors of Mars
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
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The northern polar plains of Mars can be seen in approximate true color in this image taken by NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander.
