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Brave New World?
Sep 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- British trade unionism was not undermined by Margaret Thatcher, but by the dawn of a new, brutally competitive age that weakened it dramatically in the private sector, a major new analysis claims.
Researchers developing new drug class to combat Alzheimer's
Oct 22, 2008 |
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The University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy has received a four-year, $1.87 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue research into discovering a new drug class that will treat Alzheimer's ...
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Researchers identify parallel mechanism monkeys and humans use to recognize faces
Jun 25, 2009 |
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Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, have demonstrated for the first time rhesus monkeys and humans share a specific perceptual mechanism, configural perception, for discriminating ...
Venus Disappears during Meteor Shower
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 17, 2009 |
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Picture this: It's 4:30 in the morning. You're up and out before the sun. Steam rises from your coffee cup, floating up to the sky where a silent meteor streaks through a crowd of stars. A few minutes later ...
Are you phonagnosic?
Oct 27, 2008 |
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The first known case of someone born without the ability to recognise voices has been reported in a paper by UCL (University College London) researchers, in a study of a rare condition known as phonagnosia. The UCL team are ...
Facial expressions say more than 1,000 words
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 15, 2008 |
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People talk to exchange information. Yet understanding another person involves far more than just the content of the message. Only with the correct intonation and facial expression does the message acquire meaning. People ...
Servants and masters -- the Chatterley trial
Sep 15, 2008 |
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It was one of the defining legal battles of the twentieth century. A courtroom drama which tackled issues of class, gender relations, sexuality, morality and censorship head on.
Researchers discover novel 'gene toggles' in world's top food crop
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Apr 09, 2008 |
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University of Delaware researchers, in collaboration with U.S. and international colleagues, have found a new type of molecule--a kind of “micro-switch”--that can turn off genes in rice, which is the primary ...
Britain considers manned space missions
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 15, 2008 |
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The British government may be rethinking its decision not to pursue manned space missions.
Psychologist reveals the secrets of leadership
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 20, 2007 |
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New research has found that leaders are most effective when they transform themselves into ‘one of us’. The study by the University of Exeter, University of St Andrews and Australian National University shatters the stereotype ...
Crab nabbed; circumstances fishy
Aug 10, 2006 |
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MIT researchers have confirmed the first sighting of a Dungeness crab in the Atlantic Ocean. The male, whose species is common on North America's West Coast, was caught off Thatcher Island, Massachusetts, on ...
Satellite reveals Yellowston's deep secret
Mar 09, 2006 |
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Satellite images acquired by ESA's ERS-2 revealed the recently discovered changes in Yellowstone's caldera are the result of molten rock movement 15 kilometres below the Earth's surface, according to a recent ...
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