Archive: 03/29/2007
New, nanoporous ceramic filter offers hope to kidney-dialysis patients
If you are one of the 370,000 Americans who lack functioning kidneys, you are all too familiar with the exhausting procedure of kidney dialysis. Three or four times every week, you visit a special clinic and sit for four ...
Mar 29, 2007 |
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MIT's ocean model precisely mimics microbes' life cycles
Scientists at MIT have created an ocean model so realistic that the virtual forests of diverse microscopic plants they "sowed" have grown in population patterns that precisely mimic their real-world counterparts.
Biology /
Mar 29, 2007 |
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Scientists Derive First Bottom-Up Determination of Air-Sea Momentum Transfer Under a Major Hurricane
Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory - Stennis Space Center (NRL-SSC) have directly derived the air-sea momentum exchange at the ocean interface using observed ocean currents under Hurricane Ivan and ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 29, 2007 |
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Probing Question: Why doesn't it thunderstorm in the winter?
Some parents tell their children that thunderstorms occur when God goes bowling, but an observant youngster might wonder why The Big Guy only bowls in the summertime.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 29, 2007 |
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NTT to Sell Exclusive M702iS Dolce & Gabbana in Japan
NTT DoCoMo announced today that the company will begin marketing, for a limited time, an exclusive, special-edition handset, the M702iS Dolce & Gabbana, developed jointly by Dolce & Gabbana, Motorola and DoCoMo, ...
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Mar 29, 2007 |
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NASA Astronaut to Run Boston Marathon in Space
NASA astronaut Suni Williams will go faster than anyone has ever gone in the Boston Marathon. She will run the famed race in April as an official entrant from 210 miles above Earth aboard the International ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 29, 2007 |
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Spitzer Finds Planets Thrive Around Stellar Twins
The double sunset that Luke Skywalker gazed upon in the film "Star Wars" might not be a fantasy.
Mar 29, 2007 |
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Chandra Sheds Light on Galaxy Collision
Astronomers think that there are enormous black holes at the centers of most, if not all, galaxies. These black holes, which can be millions or even billions of times more massive than the Sun, can greatly ...
Mar 29, 2007 |
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Child's play is serious study of cause and effect
It's not child's play to Laura E. Schulz, assistant professor of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT, to figure out what child's play is all about.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 29, 2007 |
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Prototype for long wavelength array sees first light
Astronomers at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have produced the first images of the sky from a prototype of the Long Wavelength Array (LWA), a revolutionary new radio telescope to be constructed in southwestern ...
Mar 29, 2007 |
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Researchers identify critical receptor in liver regeneration
In studies in mouse models, researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine have found that a cellular receptor involved in triggering cell death is also a necessary component ...
Mar 29, 2007 |
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Gladstone scientists identify critical gene factor in heart development
Researchers at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease (GICD) announced they have identified a critical genetic factor in the control of many aspects of heart form and function. As reported in the journal Cell, ...
Mar 29, 2007 |
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Overfishing large sharks impacts entire marine ecosystem, shrinks shellfish supply
Fewer big sharks in the oceans mean that bay scallops and other shellfish may be harder to find at the market, according to an article in the March 30 issue of the journal Science, tying two unlikely links in the food web to ...
Biology /
Mar 29, 2007 |
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Lack of care for older breast cancer patients
Older women with breast cancer get a lower level of care than younger women, researchers at The University of Manchester have found.
Mar 29, 2007 |
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Technique creates metal memory and could lead to vanishing dents
Crumpled kitchen foil that lays flat for reuse. Bent bumpers that straighten overnight. Dents in car doors that disappear when heated with a hairdryer. These and other physical feats may become possible with a technique to ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 29, 2007 |
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