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Values predict attitudes toward nuclear power
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 25, 2009 |
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Concerns about climate change and energy independence have led to renewed calls for the resurgence of nuclear power. Therefore, it is important to understand the level of and bases for public attitudes, both supporting and ...
Non-nuclear families function, too
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Oct 19, 2009 |
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The conventional family has changed over the past decade. According to a new study by the Working Group on Adolescence of the Andalusian Society of Family and Community Medicine, which has been published in ...
Household financial contributions by adult live-in children are influenced by family structure
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Aug 11, 2009 |
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Single parents are more likely than parents in nuclear families to receive financial help from their grown, live-in children, according to research to be presented at the 104th annual meeting of the American Sociological ...
Nuclear hormone receptors, microRNAs form developmental switch
Apr 02, 2009 |
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A particular nuclear hormone receptor called DAF-12 and molecules called microRNAs in the let-7 family form a molecular switch that encourages cells in the larvae of a model worm to shift to a more developed state, said a ...
Molecular bridge serves as a tether for a cell's nucleus
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Aug 08, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A cell's nucleus - home of it its most precious contents — is a delicate envelope that, without support, is barely able to withstand the forces that keep it in place. Now, researchers have ...
Researchers create smaller and more efficient nuclear battery
Oct 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Batteries can power anything from small sensors to large systems. While scientists are finding ways to make them smaller but even more powerful, problems can arise when these batteries are ...
Doubts raised on nuclear industry viability
Nov 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The investment in nuclear power has been growing around the world over the last few years, being viewed as a means for countries to control their energy security, avoid the price fluctuations ...
World's earliest nuclear family found
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Nov 17, 2008 |
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The researchers dated remains from four multiple burials discovered in Germany in 2005. The 4,600-year-old graves contained groups of adults and children buried facing each other – an unusual practice in Neolithic ...
Russia hopes nuclear ship will fly humans to Mars
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 29, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Russia should build a new nuclear-powered spaceship for prospective manned missions to Mars and other planets, the nation's space chief said Thursday.
Hawaiian honeyeaters' long-lost relatives found
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Dec 11, 2008 |
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Despite appearances, Hawaii's five species of recently extinct songbirds known as honeyeaters bore no close relationship at all to the honeyeaters found in Australia and New Guinea, according to a genetic analysis reported ...
Come on in: Nuclear barrier less restrictive than expected in new cells
Oct 06, 2009 |
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When it comes to the two basic types of cells, prokaryotes and eukaryotes, compartmentalization is everything. Prokaryotes are evolutionarily ancient cells that only have a membrane surrounding their outer boundary, while ...
Carnegie Mellon professors question advice for nuclear attacks
Apr 11, 2007 |
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In the current Fox television adventure series, "24," a terrorist explodes a small nuclear bomb in Los Angeles. In the May 2007 issue of the journal Health Physics, Carnegie Mellon researchers Keith Florig and Baruch Fischh ...
Genetic mutation causes familial susceptibility for degenerative brain disease
Jan 06, 2009 |
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Mutation of a gene that helps proteins migrate in and out of the cell's genetic command center - the nucleus - puts some families at higher risk for the degenerative brain disease acute necrotizing encephalopathy (ANE).
Chance of nuclear war is greater than you think: Stanford engineer makes risk analysis
Jul 20, 2009 |
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What are the chances of a nuclear world war? What is the risk of a nuclear attack on United States soil? The risk of a child born today suffering an early death due to nuclear war is at least 10 percent, according ...
Biologists reveal structure of cell nucleus 'gatekeeper'
Oct 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Biologists led by associate professor Thomas Schwartz (MIT) have worked out a rudimentary architectural plan for the nuclear pore complex (NPC), the gatekeeper of the cell's nucleus.
