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Stalagmites in Northeast Brazilian Caves Confirm 9,000-Year Model of Diminishing Rainfall
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Until recently, researchers studying climate history in Brazil’s dry Nordeste region expected it to have wet and dry periods similar to the rest of South America. But over the past 9,000 years, ...
How a Cell's Mitotic Motors Direct Key Life Processes
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Feb 02, 2009 |
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University of Massachusetts Amherst biologists have discovered a secret of how cells organize chromosomes to prepare for dividing. Their unexpected finding is reported in this week’s issue of the journal, Current Biology.
How Bed Bugs Outsmart the Chemicals Designed to Control Them
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Jan 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Bed bugs, once nearly eradicated in the built environment, have made a big comeback recently, especially in urban centers such as New York City. In the first study to explain the failure to control certain ...
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Men Are More Accurate than Women When Hitting a Target with Force in the Dark
Jun 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Could it be that men have evolved to be more accurate at hitting a target with a weapon in the dark than women? That’s the surprising question left after a recent small study of human biomechanics conducted ...
Engineers Show How to Inhibit Fractures in Solid Surfaces of Aircraft, Electronic Devices
Jan 30, 2008 |
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Engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have found that a strong electric field can stabilize the surface of metals and other solids that conduct electricity, inhibiting the formation of cracks caused by stress. ...
Star-Forming Backbone of a Massive Structure in the Early Universe Photographed
May 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Using a special camera known as AzTEC developed by a research team led by Grant Wilson, astronomy professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, an international research group has ...
Older Drivers Recognize Their Shortcomings, Except One
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Many drivers over age 70 realize that their reaction time is slower so they naturally compensate by driving more carefully, says Matthew Romoser, who studies age-related physical and cognitive ...
Scientists Link Natural Gas Formation by Bacteria to Climate Change and Renewable Energy
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 28, 2008 |
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Natural gas reservoirs in Michigan’s Antrim Shale are providing new information about global warming and the Earth’s climate history, according to a recent study by Steven Petsch, a geoscientist at the University of Massachusetts ...
New Synthetic Compound Message to Drug-Resistant Bacteria: 'Resistance is Futile'
Jan 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the University of Illinois have developed a smart new synthetic compound that not only targets some drug-resistant bacteria and kills them, but the ...
Microbial cleaning of pollution is refined
Oct 19, 2005 |
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University of Massachusetts-Amherst scientists say strategies using microbes to clean polluted sites are becoming more refined due to gene sequencing.
Nanopores That Can Recognize, Separate Proteins and Small Molecules
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 25, 2008 |
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Nanopores, holes less than one-thousand the width of a human hair, are capable of isolating strands of DNA or therapeutic drugs from a solution, based mostly on the size of the pores. Now, a chemist at the University of Massachusetts ...
Researchers Develop Tool to Assess Supernetwork Efficiency and Vulnerability
Jul 25, 2007 |
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Natural disasters, accidents and the failure of aging equipment can have serious consequences for transportation networks, electrical power supply chains and telecommunications networks. University of Massachusetts Amherst ...
Not Only Dogs, but Deer, Monkeys and Birds Bark to Deal with Conflict
Jul 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Biologically speaking, many animals besides dogs bark, according to Kathryn Lord at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, but the evolutionary biologist also says domestic dogs vocalize ...
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