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Genetics play a pivotal role in shaping how individual's identify with political parties , according to an article in a recent issue of Political Research Quarterly, the official journal of the Western Political Science Association . http://www.physorg.com/news181235231.html Other Sciences Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:07:33 EST news181235231 Users from Argonne's Materials Science Division and University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine, working collaboratively on a user science project with CNM's Nanobio Interfaces Group, have discovered that nanostructured magnetic materials offer exciting avenues for probing cell mechanics, activating mechanosensitive ion channels, and advancing potential cancer therapies. http://www.physorg.com/news179607733.html Nanotechnology Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:40:03 EST news179607733 A Web tool that generates color maps of projected temperature and precipitation changes using 16 of the world's most prominent climate-change models is being used to consider such things as habitat shifts that will affect endangered species, places around the world where crops could be at risk because of drought and temperatures that could cripple fruit and nut production in California's Great Central Valley. http://www.physorg.com/news180112989.html Space & Earth Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:24:07 EST news180112989 According to an analysis of statewide data taken from 1998-2001, women in Oregon who made less than $50,000 a year were more than three times likely to report they were discriminated against by health providers because of their insurance status during pregnancy and delivery. http://www.physorg.com/news179151716.html Medicine & Health Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:40:05 EST news179151716 (PhysOrg.com) -- Nanoscale machines expected to have wide application in industry, energy, medicine and other fields may someday operate far more efficiently thanks to important theoretical discoveries concerning the manipulation of famous Casimir forces that took place at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory. http://www.physorg.com/news179421062.html Nanotechnology Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:11:42 EST news179421062 Two common forms of cancer have been genetically mapped for the first time, British scientists announced, in a major breakthrough in understanding the diseases. http://www.physorg.com/news180267050.html Medicine & Health Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:50:04 EST news180267050 (PhysOrg.com) -- "The W boson is one of the very few major building blocks of matter," Dmitri Denisov tells PhysOrg.com. "It is a member of a family of particles that is the most fundamental in nature. The W boson is responsible for weak interactions, which govern some of the most important processes in nature." http://www.physorg.com/news180605589.html Physics Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:13:57 EST news180605589 (PhysOrg.com) -- Electronic devices of the future may benefit from a fundamental discovery that allows researchers to customize the electronic properties of complex materials such as single-crystal thin-film structures. http://www.physorg.com/news179675089.html Physics Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:45:19 EST news179675089 December 9, 2009 -Even small errors made by cells during protein production can have profound disease effects, and nature has developed ways to uncover these mistakes and correct them. Though in the case of one essential protein building block -the amino acid alanine -nature has been extra careful, developing not one, but two checkpoints in her effort to make sure that this component is used correctly. http://www.physorg.com/news179598698.html Biology Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:10:01 EST news179598698 (PhysOrg.com) -- Nature and its bottom-up processes for creating robust and responsive materials are inspiring new generations of synthetic materials and creative design. http://www.physorg.com/news179137286.html Biology Fri, 04 Dec 2009 08:22:22 EST news179137286 (PhysOrg.com) -- The genetically modified cyanobacterium consumes carbon dioxide and produces the liquid fuel isobutanol by using energy from sunlight. http://www.physorg.com/news179683624.html Biology Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:07:55 EST news179683624 (PhysOrg.com) -- Yale University researchers, analyzing hundreds of billions of bits of genetic information, have collated and standardized 2,000 signposts that mark the boundaries of large blocks of human genomic variants. http://www.physorg.com/news181240282.html Biology Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:38:14 EST news181240282 The Egyptians supposedly used it to guide the construction the Pyramids. The architecture of ancient Athens is thought to have been based on it. Fictional Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon tried to unravel its mysteries in the novel The Da Vinci Code. http://www.physorg.com/news180531747.html Other Sciences Mon, 21 Dec 2009 01:00:02 EST news180531747 (PhysOrg.com) -- Yale University researchers have devised a computer model to explain how the brain makes decisions based on statistical probabilities-as, for instance, when a doctor makes a diagnosis based on several conflicting test results. http://www.physorg.com/news180039239.html Medicine & Health Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:40:02 EST news180039239 The solar system is passing through an interstellar cloud that physics says should not exist. In the Dec. 24th issue of Nature, a team of scientists reveal how NASA's Voyager spacecraft have solved the mystery. http://www.physorg.com/news181052057.html Space & Earth Sat, 26 Dec 2009 12:15:41 EST news181052057