Archive: 02/11/2008
Is your dating partner happy? Research finds it hard to know at times
Research tends to focus on the positives of self-monitoring -- a personality characteristic that accounts for how attuned individuals are to societal conventions as well as the degree to which “appropriateness” controls their ...
Feb 11, 2008 |
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At last a machine with good taste -- for espresso
Can a machine taste coffee? The question has plagued scientists studying the caffeinated beverage for decades. Fortunately, researchers in Switzerland can now answer with a resounding “yes.” The study on their coffee-tasting ...
Feb 11, 2008 |
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'Recordable' proteins as next-generation memory storage materials
Move over, compact discs, DVDs, and hard drives. Researchers in Japan report progress toward developing a new protein-based memory device that could provide an alternative to conventional magnetic and optical storage systems, ...
Feb 11, 2008 |
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Why youth hostel showers are like the stock market
Diversity keeps you warm. At least that is true while you're having a shower in youth hostels. If you like, this sums up the research project just published by scientists from the Universities of Fribourg and Bonn. Their ...
Feb 11, 2008 |
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The beauty bias: Can people love the one they are compatible with?
Physical attractiveness is important in choosing whom to date. Good looking people are not only popular targets for romantic pursuits, they themselves also tend to flock together with more attractive others. Does this mean ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 11, 2008 |
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Ignition locks reduce DWIs
Interlocks, breath-testing devices that prevent a vehicle’s ignition from starting if the driver is above a preset blood alcohol limit, can dramatically reduce driving-while-impaired (DWIs) offenses among first-time offenders, ...
Feb 11, 2008 |
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Anti-cancer drug damages brain vessels
New research may help explain why an anti-cancer drug causes potentially fatal brain inflammation in certain patients. Scientists at Harvard Medical School mimicked the drug's activity in mice and found that it damaged the ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Feb 11, 2008 |
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Nanotechnology's future depends on who the public trusts
When the public considers competing arguments about a new technology’s potential risks and benefits, people will tend to agree with the expert whose values are closest to their own, no matter what position the expert takes. ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 11, 2008 |
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Greener extraction of one of nature's whitest minerals
From medicine to make-up, plastics to paper - hardly a day goes by when we don't use titanium dioxide. Now researchers at the University of Leeds have developed a simpler, cheaper and greener method of extracting higher yields ...
Feb 11, 2008 |
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Expert: Surgical gel has injured women
A leading gynecologist in New Zealand alleges Confluent SprayGel has caused internal scarring in several women who used the surgical gel.
Feb 11, 2008 |
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Review of online breast cancer information encourages healthy skepticism for consumers
In an extended analysis of Web pages dedicated to disseminating breast cancer information, researchers at two University of Texas institutions in the Houston have determined that while most breast cancer data found online ...
Feb 11, 2008 |
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Artificial sweeteners linked to weight gain
Want to lose weight? It might help to pour that diet soda down the drain. Researchers have laboratory evidence that the widespread use of no-calorie sweeteners may actually make it harder for people to control their intake ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 11, 2008 |
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Light echoes whisper the distance to a star
Taking advantage of the presence of light echoes, a team of astronomers have used an ESO telescope to measure, at the 1% precision level, the distance of a Cepheid - a class of variable stars that constitutes ...
Feb 11, 2008 |
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