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Fear of anxiety linked to depression in above-average worriers
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 01, 2009 |
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Anxiety sensitivity, or the fear of feeling anxious, may put people who are already above-average worriers at risk for depression, according to Penn State researchers. Understanding how sensitivity to anxiety is a risk factor ...
Study shows brief training in meditation may help manage pain
Nov 10, 2009 |
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Living with pain is stressful, but a surprisingly short investment of time in mental training can help you cope.
Brandeis studies evaluate visionary approach to improving eyesight
Dec 02, 2009 |
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Joseph Balboni loves sports. An avid tennis player and golfer, as well as baseball fan, the 46-year-old insurance agent became increasingly frustrated over time as his eyesight dimmed due to keratoconus, a degenerative eye ...
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Rapid cardiac biomarker testing system developed by Singapore scientists
Dec 08, 2009 |
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Scientists at Singapore's Institute of Microelectronics (IME) have developed a rapid and sensitive integrated system to test simultaneously for specific cardiac biomarkers in finger prick amount of blood.
NASA Global Precipitation Measurement Mission Passes Major Review
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's effort to deploy the first satellite mission to advance global precipitation observations from space moved closer to this goal when agency officials approved critical elements for the Global Precipitation ...
Why King Kong failed to impress
Dec 08, 2009 |
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Humans have the same receptors for detecting odors related to sex as do other apes and primates. But each species uses them in different ways, stemming from the way the genes for these receptors have evolved over time, according ...
Testosterone does not induce aggression
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 08, 2009 |
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New scientific evidence refutes the preconception that testosterone causes aggressive, egocentric, and risky behavior. A study at the Universities of Zurich and Royal Holloway London with more than 120 experimental subjects ...
Does weak equivalence break down at the quantum level?
Dec 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the givens in physics is the weak equivalence principle. This principle has been considered solid since Einstein proposed that it is not possible to detect the difference between uniform acceleration ...
New technology could boost disease detection tests' speed and sensitivity (w/ Video)
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Dec 07, 2009 |
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A team led by Yale University scientists has developed a way to rapidly manipulate and sort different cells in the blood using magnetizable liquids. The findings, which will be published the week of December ...
Study: Earth more sensitive to carbon dioxide than previously thought
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 06, 2009 |
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In the long term, the Earth's temperature may be 30-50% more sensitive to atmospheric carbon dioxide than has previously been estimated, reports a new study published in Nature Geoscience this week.
Diffusion tensor imaging increases ability to remove benign tumors in children
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 04, 2009 |
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A new study published this week in the Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics finds that operative plans for removing Juvenile Pilocytic Astrocytoma, or JPA, tumors in the thalamus of the brain can be augmented with Diffusion Tensor ...
NASA's WISE infrared satellite to reveal new galaxies, stars, asteroids
Dec 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Data from the satellite, says principal investigator and UCLA professor Edward Wright, will help scientists answer fundamental questions about the history of our solar system, the Milky Way ...
Tahoe faces new development battle: green vs. green
Dec 03, 2009 |
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As snow begins to blanket Lake Tahoe, the region finds itself facing a new kind of development battle: green vs. green.
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