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Rotation is key to understanding volcanic plumes
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A 200-year-old report by a sea captain and a stunning photograph of the 2008 eruption of Mount Chaiten are helping scientists at the University of Illinois better understand strong volcanic ...
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Charles Darwin really did have advanced ideas about the origin of life
Oct 27, 2009 |
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When Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species 150 years ago, he deliberately avoided the subject of the origin of life. This, coupled with the mention of the 'Creator' in the last paragraph of the book, ...
Teens cool off from sports with each succeeding winter
Mar 31, 2009 |
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Although winter's grasp has subsided to spring, its effects could have a long term impact on the exercise patterns of teenagers. According to a five-year study published in the Annals of Epidemiology, while teens are genera ...
University of Pennsylvania engineers discover natural 'workbench' for nanoscale construction
Jul 17, 2007 |
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Engineers at the University of Pennsylvania have taken a step toward simplifying the creation of nanostructures by identifying the first inorganic material to phase separate with near-perfect order at the ...
Scientists discover quantum mechanical 'hurricanes' form spontaneously
Oct 15, 2008 |
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University of Arizona scientists experimenting with some of the coldest gases in the universe have discovered that when atoms in the gas get cold enough, they can spontaneously spin up into what might be described ...
New cause of osteoporosis: Mutation in a miroRNA
Nov 16, 2009 |
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Many biological processes are controlled by small molecules known as microRNAs, which work by suppressing the expression of specific sets of genes. Xiang-Hang Luo and colleagues, at Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South ...
Cholesterol-lowering drug boosts bone repair
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Jul 31, 2008 |
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Lovastatin, a drug used to lower cholesterol and help prevent cardiovascular disease, has been shown to improve bone healing in an animal model of neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1). The research, reported today in the open access ...
Mechanism related to the onset of various genetic diseases revealed
Sep 17, 2009 |
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Researchers at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Universitat Autňnoma de Barcelona (UAB) have revealed the process by which proteins with a tendency to cause conformational diseases such as amyotrophic ...
Side effects not always due to swine flu shot
Oct 31, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Hundreds of people on any given day will die, develop the paralyzing Guillain-Barre syndrome or have spontaneous abortions, and that doesn't necessarily mean that their swine flu vaccination shot was to blame, a ...
Physicists observe new property of matter
Nov 02, 2006 |
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Physicists at the University of California, San Diego have for the first time observed the spontaneous production of coherence within "excitons," the bound pairs of electrons and holes that enable semiconductors ...
New research sheds light on key trigger of embryonic stem cell differentiation
Nov 05, 2008 |
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Clusters of mouse embryonic stem cells called embryoid bodies more closely approximate true embryos in organization and structure than previously thought, according to researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. ...
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