In matters of sex and death, men are an essential part of the equation
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Aug 29, 2007 |
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In a paper, to appear in the August 29 issue of the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE, Stanford scientists show that the standard practice of tracking only female life histories leads to mistaken conclusions about the ...
YouTube for scientists launched
Aug 29, 2007 |
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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.
Nokia unveils four devices optimized for entertainment, music and games
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Aug 29, 2007 |
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Alongside the introduction of Ovi, the door to Nokia's new Internet services, Nokia today unveiled four new mobile devices specifically optimized for entertainment, music and games.
NASA study will help stop stowaways to Mars
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 29, 2007 |
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NASA clean rooms, where scientists and engineers assemble spacecraft, have joined hot springs, ice caves, and deep mines as unlikely places where scientists have discovered ultra-hardy organisms collectively known as ‘extremophiles’. ...
UC Riverside hydrologist to study ecological impact of climate change on mountain lakes
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 29, 2007 |
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How does climate change affect the rate of atmospheric deposition of nutrients – elements or compounds essential to the growth and survival of organisms – into mountain lakes? And how do increases in the deposition ...
Gene regulation in humans is closer than expected to simple organisms
Aug 29, 2007 |
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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 ...
Perfect projections on surfaces of any shape
Aug 29, 2007 |
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Projecting brilliantly sharp images as a single picture onto curved surfaces has previously been a very elaborate and expensive process. Now a new software system automatically calibrates the projectors needed so that the ...
Collaborative cross attracting diverse genetics experiments
Aug 29, 2007 |
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Mice that are part of the Collaborative Cross project at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are helping scientists around the world learn more about possible causes of drug abuse, diabetes, sleep disorders, stress and pain, kidney ...
Researchers aim to make Internet bandwidth a global currency
Technology / Computer Sciences
Aug 29, 2007 |
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Computer scientists at Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, in collaboration with colleagues from the Netherlands, are using a novel peer-to-peer video sharing application to explore a next-generation ...
Influence of sex and handedness on brain is similar in capuchin monkeys and humans
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Aug 29, 2007 |
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Capuchin monkeys are playful, inquisitive primates known for their manual dexterity, complex social behavior, and cognitive abilities. New research now shows that just like humans, they display a fundamental sex difference ...
Rovers begin new observations on changing Martian atmosphere
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 29, 2007 |
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Mars rover scientists have launched a new long-term study on the Martian atmosphere with the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer, an instrument that was originally developed at the University of Chicago.
Cancer researchers at the University of Pennsylvania discover what makes lymphomas tick
Aug 29, 2007 |
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University of Pennsylvania researchers and their colleagues at the Wistar Institute and University of Oxford have discovered the molecular process by which the PAX5 protein, necessary for lymphocyte development, promotes ...
'Mighty mice' made mightier
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Aug 29, 2007 |
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The Johns Hopkins scientist who first showed that the absence of the protein myostatin leads to oversized muscles in mice and men has now found a second protein, follistatin, whose overproduction in mice lacking ...
OSU 'sweet' biofuels research goes down on the farm
Aug 29, 2007 |
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Oklahoma State University’s sorghum-related biofuels research is taking a localized approach, with the aim of making possible the effective production of ethanol in the farmer’s own field.
University of Maryland researchers unlock mystery of a third olfactory system
Aug 29, 2007 |
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Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have found a “nose within the nose,” a unique olfactory system within the noses of mice that is able to “smell” hormones involved in regulating water and salt balance ...
