Researchers discover gene that blocks HIV
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Feb 29, 2008 |
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A team of researchers at the University of Alberta has discovered a gene that is able to block HIV, and in turn prevent the onset of AIDS.
AMANDA's First Six Years
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The most recent results from the Antarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector Array, or AMANDA, located a mile under the ice at the South Pole, have yielded the most stringent prediction yet for the highest possible ...
Brown mathematicians prove new way to build a better estimate
Feb 29, 2008 |
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How do you sift through hundreds of billions of bits of information and make accurate inferences from such gargantuan sets of data? Brown University mathematician Charles “Chip” Lawrence and graduate student Luis Carvalho ...
Tuatara evolving faster than any other species
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New DNA research has questioned previous notions about the evolution of the tuatara.
Steps towards warship invisibility
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Naval warships might look like all-powerful vessels but they are also highly vulnerable to being spotted by the enemy. That fear of being detected has led the military to develop new stealth technologies that allow ships ...
Dutch University Tests Windmill for Seawater Desalination
Feb 29, 2008 |
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A traditional windmill which drives a pump: that is the simple concept behind the combination of windmill/reverse osmosis developed by the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in The Netherlands. In this ...
Standardized battery wants to appeal to all gadgets
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All plug-in electronics use the same power cord, and all battery-operated devices use one of a few standard sizes. Even computer accessories mostly all have USB capabilities. So why not standardize rechargeable ...
Liquid water found flowing on Mars? Not yet
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 29, 2008 |
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Liquid water has not been found on the Martian surface within the last decade after all, according to new research. The finding casts doubt on the 2006 report that the bright spots in some Martian gullies ...
Researchers find key step in programmed cell death
Feb 29, 2008 |
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Investigators at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have discovered a dance of proteins that protects certain cells from undergoing apoptosis, also known as programmed cell death. Understanding the fine points of apoptosis ...
Darwin was wrong about the wild origin of the chicken
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Charles Darwin maintained that the domesticated chicken derives from the red jungle fowl, but new research from Uppsala University now shows that the wild origins of the chicken are more complicated than that.
ATLAS completes world's largest jigsaw puzzle
Feb 29, 2008 |
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Today the ATLAS collaboration at CERN celebrates the lowering of its last large detector element. The ATLAS detector is the world’s largest general-purpose particle detector, measuring 46 metres long, 25 ...
Monkey gene that blocks AIDS viruses evolved more than once
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Feb 29, 2008 |
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Researchers at Harvard Medical School have identified a gene in Asian monkeys that may have evolved as a defense against lentiviruses, the group of viruses that includes HIV. The study, published February 29 in the open-access ...
Turning Bacteria into Cancer-Fighting Robots Wins Researcher $1 Million Grant
Feb 29, 2008 |
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Neil Forbes of the University of Massachusetts Amherst has received a four-year grant of more than $1 million from the National Institutes of Health to research killing cancer tumors with Salmonella bacteria. Forbes turns ...
Large source of nitrate, a potential water contaminant, found in near-surface desert soils
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A UC Riverside-led study in the Mojave Desert, Calif., has found that soils under “desert pavement” have an unusually high concentration of nitrate, a type of salt, close to the surface. Vulnerable to erosion ...
Rock studies help crack questions of glacier thinning in West Antarctica
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 29, 2008 |
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Boulders the size footballs could help scientists predict the West Antarctic Ice Sheet’s (WAIS) contribution to sea-level rise according to new research published this week in the journal Geology.
