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Delusions associated with consistent pattern of brain injury

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new study provides a novel theory for how delusions arise and why they persist. NYU Langone Medical Center researcher Orrin Devinsky, MD, performed an in-depth analysis of patients with certain delusions and brain disorders ...





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A Tale of Planetary Woe

A Tale of Planetary Woe (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created 18 hours ago | popularity 4.2 / 5 (10) | comments 5

Once upon a time — roughly four billion years ago — Mars was warm and wet, much like Earth. Liquid water flowed on the Martian surface in long rivers that emptied into shallow seas. A thick atmosphere blanketed ...


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, ...


Scientists develop DNA origami nanoscale breadboards for carbon nanotube circuits

Scientists develop DNA origami nanoscale breadboards for carbon nanotube circuits

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0

In work that someday may lead to the development of novel types of nanoscale electronic devices, an interdisciplinary team of researchers at the California Institute of Technology has combined DNA's talent ...


Willis Tower

The greening of Willis Tower: Rooftop gardens part of plan to improve efficiency

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Growing up in the southwest suburbs, Sara Beardsley had a view of the Chicago skyline from her house. Today, she is transforming that skyline, but you won't find her work glorified on a $6 mug or gracing postcards.


Hubble Image Showcases Star Birth in M83, the Southern Pinwheel

Hubble Image Showcases Star Birth in M83, the Southern Pinwheel

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The spectacular new camera installed on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope during Servicing Mission 4 in May has delivered the most detailed view of star birth in the graceful, curving arms of ...


Frost-Covered Phoenix Lander Seen in Winter Images

Frost-Covered Phoenix Lander Seen in Winter Images

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Winter images of NASA's Phoenix Lander showing the lander shrouded in dry-ice frost on Mars have been captured with the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, or HiRISE camera, aboard ...


Plentiful poinsettias without PGRs

Plentiful poinsettias without PGRs

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Poinsettias can be a lucrative crop for ornamental plant growers, particularly during the Christmas season. In the temperate regions of the southern hemisphere, where poinsettias are grown for both export ...


Switzerland restricts use of GlaxoSmithKline swine flu vaccine

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Switzerland on Friday restricted the use of British drugs group GlaxoSmithKline's swine flu vaccine Pandemrix, excluding pregnant women, minors and people over the age of 60.


Global warming cycles threaten endangered primate species

Global warming cycles threaten endangered primate species

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (17) | comments 5

Two Penn State University researchers have carried out one of the first-ever analyses of the effects of global warming on endangered primates. This innovative work by Graduate Student Ruscena Wiederholt and ...


Volcanoes played pivotal role in ancient ice age, mass extinction

Volcanoes played pivotal role in ancient ice age, mass extinction

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers here have discovered the pivotal role that volcanoes played in a deadly ice age 450 million years ago.



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