Archive: 09/01/2008
Mars Rover Opportunity Ascends to Level Ground
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has climbed out of the large crater that it had been examining from the inside since last September.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 01, 2008 |
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Neighbour's aid for jobless nerve cells
(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the laws of nature states that empty spaces don’t stay empty for long. Be it the flowerbed, which is overgrown with weeds in no time, or the gap in your appointment calendar, which ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Sep 01, 2008 |
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Electrons discover their individuality
(PhysOrg.com) -- Electrons have something in common with people: the more information they acquire about their setting, the more they become aware of their individuality and the more belonging to a group loses ...
Sep 01, 2008 |
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Geometric model could mean breakthrough in saving endangered kakapo
(PhysOrg.com) -- A mathematical model used to assess the nutrient balance of the kakapo diet has the potential to help solve one of the main challenges to saving the endangered native parrot.
Sep 01, 2008 |
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Cosmic connections: Scientist locates the origin of cosmic dust
(PhysOrg.com) -- The origin of the microscopic meteorites that make up cosmic dust has been revealed for the first time in new research out today (1 September 2008).
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 01, 2008 |
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Dashing computer interface to control your car
(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have developed a special dashboard computer to act as a single conduit for all devices emerging in modern cars – GPS, mobile, PDAs, intelligent car technologies. It should ...
Sep 01, 2008 |
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The first autism disease genes
The autistic disorder was first described, more than sixty years ago, by Dr. Leo Kanner of the Johns Hopkins Hospital (USA), who created the new label 'early infantile autism'. At the same time an Austrian scientist, Dr. ...
Sep 01, 2008 |
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Physicists Rule Out the Production of Dangerous Black Holes at the LHC
(PhysOrg.com) -- On August 8, the world's largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland, began the process of slowly throttling to full power. When its proton beams are circling ...
Sep 01, 2008 |
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Paraben's CSI Stick Copies Data from Cell Phones
Beware the next time someone borrows your cell phone or you leave it unattended. You may become the next victim of having all your cell phone data copied to the CSI Stick.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Sep 01, 2008 |
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Thawing permafrost likely to boost global warming
The thawing of permafrost in northern latitudes, which greatly increases microbial decomposition of carbon compounds in soil, will dominate other effects of warming in the region and could become a major force promoting the ...
Biology /
Sep 01, 2008 |
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New sensory devices will aid Parkinson's and stroke patients
People who have suffered a stroke or who have been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, could benefit from new research at Queen's University Belfast.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sep 01, 2008 |
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Sex hormones link to heart risk
Men are more prone to – and likely to die of - heart disease compared with women of a similar age – and sex hormones are to blame, according to a new University of Leicester led study.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Sep 01, 2008 |
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Study shows heavy snoring is an independent risk factor for carotid atherosclerosis
A study in the Sept. 1 issue of the journal Sleep shows that objectively measured heavy snoring is an independent risk factor for early carotid atherosclerosis, which may progress to be associated with stroke.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sep 01, 2008 |
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Noninvasive test accurately identifies advanced liver disease without biopsy
Non-invasively measuring liver stiffness with transient elastography accurately diagnoses patients with late-stage liver disease, reports a new study in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, the official journal of the ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sep 01, 2008 |
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Bowling alone because the team got downsized
The pain of downsizing extends far beyond laid off workers and the people who depend on their paychecks, according to a new UCLA-University of Michigan, Ann Arbor study. Even a single involuntary displacement has a lasting ...
Sep 01, 2008 |
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