Search results for fundamental characteristics
Healthy people and enhancement drugs
Aug 22, 2008 |
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Healthy people are more willing to take drugs to enhance traits that are not fundamental to their identity. According to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research, people's willingness to take a pill or drug depend ...
Honest lovers? Fallow buck groans reveal their status and size during the rut
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Sep 03, 2008 |
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It is known that the phonic structure of calls produced by males during the breeding season may signal quality-related characteristics in many different types of animals. Previous research on mammals has mainly focussed on ...
Study: Grammar ability hardwired in humans
Feb 07, 2006 |
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University of Rochester scientists studying why characteristics of grammar are found in all languages say the use of grammar is hardwired in our brains.
Physics rules network dynamics
Dec 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When it comes to the workings of the Web, the brain, or a social network, physics finds universal truths.
RNA induction of an epigenetic hereditary pathology
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Jun 09, 2008 |
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A new study shows that microinjection of RNA molecules into mouse embryos induces a hereditary form of cardiac hypertrophy that is similar to human hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). The research, published by Cell Press ...
Researcher discover fundamental processes behind nature's constant balancing act
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Oct 29, 2008 |
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The natural world behaves a lot like the stock market, with periods of relative stability interspersed with dramatic swings in population size and competition between individuals and species.
Hidden structure revealed in characteristics of transistor laser
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Apr 06, 2006 |
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The transistor laser, invented by scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been full of surprises. Researchers recently coaxed the device to reveal fundamental properties of the transistor, ...
Researchers run rings round cell division
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Jul 03, 2008 |
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A puzzle in the control of cell division, one of the most fundamental processes in all biology, has been unravelled by Oxford University researchers.
Transistor laser functions as non-linear electronic switch, processor
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Feb 06, 2006 |
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The transistor laser invented by scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has now been found to possess fundamental non-linear characteristics that are new to a transistor and permit its ...
Intelligent DJ Emerges from Fundamental Research
Jun 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An Austrian project has made the leap from research bench to shop shelf and is breathing musical intelligence into a digital audio system. This achievement has been made possible by a computer ...
Next-generation steel by magnetic field processing
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Jan 06, 2005 |
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New products made of stronger components that are lighter in weight, more energy efficient and have an extended use life may be possible through a technology that can alter the characteristics of steel and other materials.
No easy answers in evolution of human language
Feb 17, 2008 |
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The evolution of human speech was far more complex than is implied by some recent attempts to link it to a specific gene, says Robert Berwick, professor of computational linguistics at MIT.
Atomtronic transistor and diode could advance quantum computing
Oct 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- What if atoms could be used to perform the functions currently the province of electronic devices? The goal of atomtronics is to do just that by creating analogues to the common items found in electronic ...
Researchers Discover Surface Orbital 'Roughness' in Manganites
Nov 20, 2007 |
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Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have shown that in a class of materials called manganites, the electronic behavior at the surface is considerably different from that found in ...
Crystal structure enables tailoring of pharmaceuticals against asthma
Jul 16, 2007 |
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Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have managed to elucidate the crystal structure of a human membrane protein – LTC4 synthase – which has a major influence on the development of asthma. LTC4 synthase is extremely ...
