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Nanotube therapy takes aim at breast cancer stem cells
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center researchers have again proven that injecting multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) into tumors and heating them with a quick, 30-second laser treatment can kill them.
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 09, 2012 |
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Hold the extra burgers and fries when people pleasers arrive
If you are a people-pleaser who strives to keep your social relationships smooth and comfortable, you might find yourself overeating in certain social situations like Super Bowl watch parties. A new study from Case Western ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 01, 2012 |
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Strategic research plan needed to help avoid potential risks of nanomaterials
Despite extensive investment in nanotechnology and increasing commercialization over the last decade, insufficient understanding remains about the environmental, health, and safety aspects of nanomaterials. Without a coordinated ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jan 25, 2012 |
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A baby crystal is born
Lead sulfide (PbS) forms when an equal number of lead and sulfur atoms exchange electrons and bond together in cubic crystals. Now scientists have determined that a structure comprising 32 lead-sulfur pairs is the smallest ...
Jan 17, 2012 |
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Illuminating cross talk between signalling factors
(Medical Xpress) -- Hypoxia and inflammation are environmental features occuring simultaneously in a variety of diseases such as growing tumours and critically inflamed tissues. UCD scientists investigating the relative contributions ...
Nov 22, 2011 |
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Good parenting is just a joke
Parents who joke and pretend with their toddlers are giving their children a head start in terms of life skills. Most parents are naturals at playing the fool with their kids, says a new research project funded by the Economic ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 27, 2011 |
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Childhood and the driving force of fashion
Are children as young as five years old so driven by consumerism and fashion that they are in danger of 'losing' their childhood?
Sep 15, 2011 |
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White favoritism by Major League umps lowers minority pitcher performance, pay
When it comes to Major League Baseball's pitchers, the more strikes, the better. But what if white umpires call strikes more often for white pitchers than for minority pitchers?
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 07, 2011 |
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Conservationists sound alarm over macaque
The long-tailed macaque is being threatened with extinction by a huge surge in international trade and the destruction of its habitat in Southeast Asia, conservationists said on Friday.
Jul 15, 2011 |
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Uncovering the Kingdom of Israel
In addition to many findings dating back to the Kingdom of Israel (some 3,000 years ago), remains of a Persian city (2,400 years ago) and a Byzantine town (1,500 years ago) have been exposed at the site. Plans ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jul 05, 2011 |
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Environs prompt advantageous gene mutations as plants grow; changes passed to progeny
If a person were to climb a towering redwood and take a sample from the top and bottom of the tree, a comparison would show that the DNA are different.
Jul 01, 2011 |
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Was the fox prehistoric man's best friend?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Early humans may have preferred the fox to the dog as an animal companion, new archaeological findings suggest.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jan 27, 2011 |
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Analysis of a relationship triangle
In a model network of friends and foes, relationships will evolve until everyone becomes friendly or the network splits into two hostile factions, researchers suggest in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Ac ...
Jan 12, 2011 |
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Swedish Research Council to bar cheaters
Barred for up to ten years from receiving research grants from the Swedish Research Council. There will be serious consequences for the few researchers who are guilty of plagiarism, falsification, or inventing results.
Oct 06, 2010 |
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'Science' article has implications for all rapidly developing fields
Global climate change and other fast-developing scientific fields can take a cue from a prolonged process that eventually led to a workable compromise regarding the release of new data by human genome researchers.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jul 22, 2010 |
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