Archive: 06/12/2007
Neural stem cells reduce Parkinson's symptoms in monkeys
New Haven, Conn.—Primates with severe Parkinson’s disease were able to walk, move, and eat better, and had diminished tremors after being injected with human neural stem cells, a research team from Yale, Harvard, the University ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jun 12, 2007 |
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Study shows lizard moms dress their children for success
Mothers know best when it comes to dressing their children, at least among side-blotched lizards, a common species in the western United States. Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have ...
Biology /
Jun 12, 2007 |
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Massive herds of animals found to still exist in Southern Sudan
Aerial surveys by the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society confirm the existence of more than 1.2 million white-eared kob, tiang antelope and Mongalla gazelle in Southern Sudan, where wildlife was thought to have ...
Biology /
Jun 12, 2007 |
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ESA satellite guides polar explorers across disintegrating sea ice
Two Belgian explorers currently nearing the end of a staggering 2 000 km trek across the Arctic Ocean were recently guided through hazardous conditions using observations from Envisat, as sea ice in the Lincoln ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 12, 2007 |
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Physicist cracks women's random but always lucky choice of X chromosome
A University of Warwick physicist has uncovered how female cells are able to choose randomly between their two X chromosomes and why that choice is always lucky.
Jun 12, 2007 |
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Scientists take steps toward quantum communications
A team of European scientists has proved within an ESA study that the weird quantum effect called 'entanglement' remains intact over a distance of 144 kilometres.
Jun 12, 2007 |
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Overcoming the limits of resolution
This year's Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics will be awarded to the Göttingen-based researcher Stefan Hell for his revolutionary discovery that resolutions far below the diffraction limit can be achieved in a fluorescence ...
Jun 12, 2007 |
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Scientists Create Electron Surf Machine
Scientists at the UK's National Physical Laboratory and the Cavendish Laboratory of Cambridge University have found a new way to control the movement of individual electrons -- they are making them ride the crests of energy ...
Jun 12, 2007 |
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Call of the Child
Like a student in a foreign country or a young mother trying to decipher her baby’s cries, we all encounter initially meaningless sounds that in fact carry meaning. With experience, we become better at detecting and discriminating ...
Biology /
Jun 12, 2007 |
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First study of gun shows California laws reduce illegal gun purchases
The potential for gun shows to serve as places where criminals obtain firearms can be curbed through increased regulation without adversely affecting attendance or business, according to a pioneering study published this ...
Jun 12, 2007 |
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Cutting greenhouse gases: wood chips in, alcohol out
California researchers plan to make biofuels in a novel way that doesn’t involve food crops or microbial fermentation.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jun 12, 2007 |
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