Nation's position in 'product space' determines economic growth
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Researchers have constructed a network of the relatedness between products, providing insight into the economic question of why some countries can quickly climb the manufacturing ladder, while others fail ...
Supersonic 'rain' falls on newborn star
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Astronomers at the University of Rochester have discovered five Earth-oceans’ worth of water that has recently fallen into the planet-forming region around an extremely young, developing star.
Cancer treatment developed by patient
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An Erie, Pa., leukemia patient, fed up with chemotherapy, developed technology that may one day be used to fight cancer.
Physicists found formula for spiderman suit
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Physicists have found the formula for a Spiderman suit. Only recently has man come to understand how spiders and geckos effortlessly scuttle up walls and hang from ceilings but it was doubted that this natural form of adhesion ...
Smoking turns on genes -- permanently
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Smoking tobacco is no longer considered sexy, but it may prove a permanent turn on for some genes. Research published today in the online open access journal BMC Genomics could help explain why former smokers are still more s ...
Next Ice Age delayed by rising CO2 levels
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
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Future ice ages may be delayed by up to half a million years by our burning of fossil fuels. That is the implication of recent work by Dr Toby Tyrrell of the University of Southampton's School of Ocean and Earth Science at ...
Scientists take giant step forward in understanding exotic nuclei
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Developing good predictive powers of how all nuclei work is critical to advance our understanding of the universe. The vast nuclear landscape, which is thought to consist of about 6,000 isotopes is not well ...
Researchers dispute widely held ideas about stem cells
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How do adult stem cells protect themselves from accumulating genetic mutations that can lead to cancer? For more than three decades, many scientists have argued that the "immortal strand hypothesis" - which states that adult ...
Volcanic Activity Key to Oxygen-rich Atmosphere
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
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Next time you catch a breath, be thankful, for a change, that the Earth's surface is dotted with volcanoes.
First orchid fossil puts showy blooms at some 80 million years old
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Biologists at Harvard University have identified the ancient fossilized remains of a pollen-bearing bee as the first hint of orchids in the fossil record, a find they say suggests orchids are old enough to ...
Controlling bandwidth in the clouds
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If half your company’s bandwidth is allocated to your mirror in New York, and it’s the middle of the night there, and your sites in London and Tokyo are slammed, that New York bandwidth is going to waste. ...
Neurotransmitter current not flowing through ion channels
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In studying how neurotransmitters travel between cells -- by analysis of events in the dimensions of nanometers -- Cornell researchers have discovered that an electrical current thought to be present during that process does ...
Discovery could help stop malaria at its source -- the mosquito
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As summer temperatures cool in the United States, fewer mosquitoes whir around our tiki torches. But mosquitoes swarming around nearly 40 percent of the world’s population will continue to spread a deadly parasitic disease ...
Amber specimen captures ancient chemical battle
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It appears that chemical warfare has been around a lot longer than poison arrows, mustard gas or nerve weapons – about 100 million years, give or take a little.
Study: Garlic may fight deadly cancer
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Garlic can kill cells that cause glioblastoma, a brain cancer that is usually fatal, researchers in South Carolina have found.
