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.
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 ...
Physicists found formula for spiderman suit
Aug 29, 2007 |
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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 ...
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 ...
Gene regulation in humans is closer than expected to simple organisms
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Using a novel method developed to identify reliably functional binding motifs, researchers from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel have performed a genome-wide study of functional human transcription factor binding ...
Volcanic Activity Key to Oxygen-rich Atmosphere
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 29, 2007 |
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Next time you catch a breath, be thankful, for a change, that the Earth's surface is dotted with volcanoes.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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.
YouTube for scientists launched
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A website being dubbed the YouTube for scientists has been launched, raising new hopes of bringing science closer to the people.
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 ...
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 ...
Controlling bandwidth in the clouds
Technology / Computer Sciences
Aug 29, 2007 |
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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. ...
