First Ever World Map of Happiness Produced
Jul 28, 2006 |
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A University of Leicester psychologist has produced the first ever 'world map of happiness.'
Drug triggers body's mechanism to reverse aging effect on memory process
Jul 28, 2006 |
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A drug made to enhance memory appears to trigger a natural mechanism in the brain that fully reverses age-related memory loss, even after the drug itself has left the body, according to researchers at UC Irvine.
Rationing could be key to war on climate change
Jul 28, 2006 |
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Governments may be forced to turn to wartime-style rationing to combat climate change, or risk mass migration and more than 40 million deaths, an expert in global warming has warned.
Crash Landing on the Moon
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 28, 2006 |
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In 1959, a spaceship fell out of the lunar sky and hit the ground near the Sea of Serenity. The ship itself was shattered, but its mission was a success. Luna 2 from the Soviet Union had became the first manmade ...
Anatomy of a Scientific Revolution
Jul 28, 2006 |
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With the "Genesis of General Relativity", the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science has just published the most comprehensive study to date of the structures of a scientific revolution.
Researchers show how the brain turns on innate behavior
Jul 28, 2006 |
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UCR researchers have made a major leap forward in understanding how the brain programs innate behavior. The discovery could have future applications in engineering new behaviors in animals and intelligent robots.
Researchers convert farm waste to bio-oil
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Samy Sadaka reached into a garbage bag, picked up a mixture of cow manure and corn stalks, let it run through his fingers and invited a visitor to do the same... It wasn't that bad.
Granicus and Tinjar Valles
Jul 28, 2006 |
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The HRSC obtained these images during orbit 1383 at a ground resolution of approximately 23.7 metres per pixel. The images have been rotated 90 degrees counter-clockwise, so that North is to the left.
Neural bases for language existed already 25-30 million years ago
Jul 28, 2006 |
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The origin of the brain mechanisms involved in human language is a much debated subject, especially whether these mechanisms appeared independently in humans or were already present in a common ancestor of ...
Searching For Aliens
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 28, 2006 |
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Chris McKay, a planetary scientist with the NASA Ames Research Center, is involved in nearly every investigation of interest to astrobiologists. He is working on the return to the moon with both the Lunar Precursor and Robotic ...
Slippery stretching explains ocean floor formation
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 28, 2006 |
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For the first time, scientists have found regions of the earth’s crust which are stretching apart to form new sea floor; their findings are published in Nature yesterday (27 July).
Weight can affect health, life span
Jul 28, 2006 |
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Overweight Americans usually are sick considerably more than their thinner contemporaries, look older and die younger, a new survey shows.
Efficient Parking Guidance System – Networked via GPRS
Jul 28, 2006 |
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The world’s first parking guidance system to dispense with wires and underground connections turned in a stellar performance during its first 100 days of operation. In service in Munich (Germany), the system ...
Political scientists examine the largest voting gaps in America
Jul 28, 2006 |
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Recent studies of the 2004 election data by political scientists assess the role and impact of major sets of differences in the voting behavior of Americans--known in popular parlance as "voting gaps." Based on differences ...
Study identifies potential drug target for Huntington's disease
Jul 28, 2006 |
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An enzyme known to be critical for the repair of damaged cells and the maintenance of cellular energy may be a useful target for new strategies to treat Huntington's disease (HD) and other disorders characterized by low cellular ...
