Archive: 11/03/2006
Beetle feet stick to their promises
Mushroom-shaped microhairs are the secret of a new adhesive material which scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research in Stuttgart, Germany, have developed. Inspired by the soles of beetles' ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Nov 03, 2006 |
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Your genes may hold key to how sick you get from the flu
With lessons from the 1918 flu pandemic in the rearview mirror and the avian flu a looming obstacle in the road ahead, researchers from Southern Illinois University School of Medicine are trying to understand why a flu virus ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nov 03, 2006 |
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Link identified between age, cardiovascular disease
Researchers in the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University have discovered a fundamental mechanism that causes aging blood vessels to lose their elasticity – a literal "hardening of the arteries" that is often ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 03, 2006 |
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Ocean study predicts the collapse of all seafood fisheries by 2050
All species of wild seafood will collapse within 50 years, according to a new study by an international team of ecologists and economists. Writing in the Nov. 3 issue of the journal Science, the researchers conclu ...
Nov 03, 2006 |
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