It's time to green this old (White) House - again
Mar 29, 2009 |
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(AP) -- President Barack Obama will find out two things as he studies how to make the White House more environmentally friendly:
Dust may settle unanswered questions on Antarctica
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 29, 2009 |
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Dust trapped deep in Antarctic ice sheets is helping scientists unravel details of past climate change.
Action video games improve vision
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 29, 2009 |
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Video games that involve high levels of action, such as first-person-shooter games, increase a player's real-world vision, according to research in today's Nature Neuroscience.
Getting down to cancer basics
Mar 29, 2009 |
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Researchers have identified a new cancer gene - one that is common to many cancers and affects the most basic regulation of our genes. The new example - a gene on the X chromosome called UTX - is found in 10% of cases of ...
Autism skews developing brain with synchronous motion and sound (w/Video)
Mar 29, 2009 |
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Individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) tend to stare at people's mouths rather than their eyes. Now, an NIH-funded study in 2-year-olds with the social deficit disorder suggests why they might find mouths so attractive: ...
Researchers: Cyber spies break into govt computers
Mar 29, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A cyber spy network based mainly in China hacked into classified documents from government and private organizations in 103 countries, including the computers of the Dalai Lama and Tibetan exiles, ...
Stem cells show early promise for treating type 2 diabetes
Mar 29, 2009 |
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Human trials under way at the University of Miami and other hospitals in Europe, Asia and Latin America using immature adult stem cells are showing promise for people with type 2 diabetes.
New melanoma tumor suppressor gene uncovered
Mar 29, 2009 |
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National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers have identified a gene that suppresses tumor growth in melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer. The finding is reported today in the journal Nature Genetics as part of a s ...
3 boys turn up mammoth bone in southwest Michigan
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 29, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Three boys in southwest Michigan have turned up what has been identified as a bone from a mammoth.
Enzyme and vitamin define the yin and yang of asthma
Mar 29, 2009 |
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The allergen breathed in by a person with asthma triggers a proteinase or enzyme called MMP7 that activates a cascade of events to prompt an allergic reaction, said a consortium of researchers led by Baylor College of Medicine ...
Study: Cholesterol drug lowers blood clot risk
Mar 29, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Statin drugs, taken by millions of Americans to lower cholesterol and prevent heart disease, also can cut the risk of developing dangerous blood clots that can lodge in the legs or lungs, a major study suggests.
New molecular force probe stretches molecules, atom by atom
Mar 29, 2009 |
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Chemists at the University of Illinois have created a simple and inexpensive molecular technique that replaces an expensive atomic force microscope for studying what happens to small molecules when they are stretched or compressed.
New high-throughput screening technique makes probing puzzling proteins possible
Mar 29, 2009 |
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Understanding the tens of thousands of proteins that compose the human proteome has emerged as a key challenge of this century, and research efforts to date have already enabled major advances in drug discovery and understanding ...
Researchers discover, manipulate molecular interplay that moves cancer cells
Mar 29, 2009 |
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Based on research that reveals new insight into mechanisms that allow invasive tumor cells to move, researchers at the Mayo Clinic campus in Florida have a new understanding about how to stop cancer from spreading. A cancer ...
Sharks pose Sydney food-chain puzzle
Mar 29, 2009 |
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Three shark attacks in Sydney in three weeks drove newspapers and talk show hosts into a feeding frenzy and sent a collective shudder through the other species at the top of the food chain -- humans.
