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Bacterial Stroke

How do bacteria swim? Physicists explain

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 19, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Imagine yourself swimming in a pool: It's the movement of your arms and legs, not the viscosity of the water, that mostly dictates the speed and direction that you swim.





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First comprehensive paper on statins' adverse effects released

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jan 27, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A paper co-authored by Beatrice Golomb, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and director of UC San Diego's Statin Study group cites nearly 900 studies on ...


Smoking: New research helps itch to quit

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

European scientists said Sunday they could explain why nicotine patches designed to help smokers kick their habit can cause skin irritation.


Solar sigmoids explained

Solar sigmoids explained

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 20, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- 'Sigmoids' are S-shaped structures found in the outer atmosphere of the Sun (the corona), seen with X-ray telescopes and thought to be a crucial part of explosive events like solar flares. ...


Investigating a sometimes-faulty protein's role in brain links

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory have shed light on how a protein implicated in cognitive disorders maintains and regulates brain cell structures that are key to learning and ...


Building memories with actin

Building memories with actin

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Memories aren't made of actin filaments. But their assembly is crucial for long-term potentiation (LTP), an increase in synapse sensitivity that researchers think helps to lay down memories. In the July 13, ...


New fossil plant discovery links Patagonia to New Guinea in a warmer past

New fossil plant discovery links Patagonia to New Guinea in a warmer past

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Fossil plants are windows to the past, providing us with clues as to what our planet looked like millions of years ago. Not only do fossils tell us which species were present before human-recorded history, ...


Just expecting a tasty food activates brain reward systems

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jul 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Research to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB), the foremost society for research into all aspects of eating and drinking behavior, shows that exposing rats to a context ...


Testicular tumors may explain why some diseases are more common in children of older fathers

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Oct 25, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A rare form of testicular tumour has provided scientists with new insights into how genetic changes (mutations) arise in our children. The research, funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Danish Cancer Society, could explain ...


Looking different 'helps animals to survive'

Biology / Evolution

created Jul 23, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the animal kingdom, everything is not as it seems. Individuals of the same species can look very different from each other - what biologists term 'polymorphism.'


Cells are like robust computational systems

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 16, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Gene regulatory networks in cell nuclei are similar to cloud computing networks, such as Google or Yahoo!, researchers report today in the online journal Molecular Systems Biology. The similarity is that each system keeps ...



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