Archive: 08/09/2007
Rocks under High Water Pressure
Today, Thursday the 9th of August 2007, the GFZ Potsdam, Germany's National Lab for Geosciences is starting a new series of experiments at the geothermal research site Gross Schönebeck.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
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Scientists produce functioning neurons from human embryonic stem cells
Scientists with the Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Medicine at UCLA were able to produce from human embryonic stem cells a highly pure, large quantity of functioning neurons that will allow them to create models of and ...
Biology /
Aug 09, 2007 |
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Physicists Take a Trip to Nuclear 'Island of Inversion'
Far from the everyday world occupied by such common elements such as gold and lead lies a little-understood realm inhabited by radioactive, or unstable, elements. Recently, a nuclear physicist from Florida ...
Aug 09, 2007 |
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'It might be life Jim...', physicists discover inorganic dust with life-like qualities
Could extraterrestrial life be made of corkscrew-shaped particles of interstellar dust? Intriguing new evidence of life-like structures that form from inorganic substances in space are revealed today in the New Journal of ...
Aug 09, 2007 |
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Smoking, drinking tied to increased cancer
A new report attributes Britain's rising cancer rate to lifestyle choices such as sunbathing, drinking, overeating and smoking.
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Adult ADHD linked with dopamine levels
Adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder have a reduced response to the drug Ritalin, U.S. government scientists have found.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Aug 09, 2007 |
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Long heat waves boost hospital admissions
Summer heat waves significantly increase pressure on hospitals, according to research published in the online open access journal, BMC Public Health. The good news for hospital staff is that scorching weather must last four ...
Aug 09, 2007 |
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Satellite tracking reveals threats to Borneo pygmy elephants
A new WWF study tracking pygmy elephants by satellite shows that the remaining herds of these endangered elephants, which live only on the island of Borneo, are under threat from forest fragmentation and loss ...
Biology /
Aug 09, 2007 |
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Edible fish feasts beats malaria
The emerging threat of pesticide resistance means that biological malaria control methods are once again in vogue. New research published in the online open access journal BMC Public Health shows how Nile tilapia, a fish ...
Aug 09, 2007 |
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Net energy -- a useless, misleading and dangerous metric, says expert
As oil becomes scarce, the world needs new transportation fuels. As new fuel options develop we need means of assessing which are most effective at replacing petroleum. So far many scientists have used a measure called ‘net ...
Aug 09, 2007 |
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