Archive: 10/09/2006
Archerfish tune their shots to universal properties of prey adhesion
Archerfish exhibit the remarkable ability to hunt for insects and other small terrestrial animals by firing precisely aimed streams of water that knock prey onto the water's surface. These water shots were once thought to ...
Biology /
Oct 09, 2006 |
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Drug may help women stop smoking
Adding the opiate blocker naltrexone to the combination of behavioral therapy and nicotine patches boosted smoking cessation rates for women by almost 50 percent when assessed after eight weeks of treatment, but made no difference ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Oct 09, 2006 |
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Naked mole-rat unfazed by oxidative stress
The long-lived naked mole-rat shows much higher levels of oxidative stress and damage and less robust repair mechanisms than the short-lived mouse, findings that could change the oxidative stress theory of aging.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 09, 2006 |
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Galaxy gardening more than hobby for future moon, Mars residents
Long periods of total darkness and poor soil needn't stop an avid gardener – at least not one who's willing to go out of this world to grow plants. Lush lettuce is growing by galactic measure in cylinders designed ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 09, 2006 |
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Hubble observations confirm that planets form from disks around stars
More than 200 years ago, the philosopher Emmanuel Kant first proposed that planets are born from disks of dust and gas that swirl around their home stars. Though astronomers have detected more than 200 extrasolar ...
Oct 09, 2006 |
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Everybody Dance! The Energy You Use Won't Shorten Your Life
The theory that animals die when they’ve expended their lifetime allotment of energy may be reaching the end of its own life, according to a study presented at The American Physiological Society conference, Comparative Physiology ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 09, 2006 |
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