Archive: 08/14/2007
High hopes turn poker machine players into problem gamblers
There are around 300,000 problem gamblers in Australia. For gambling researchers, one of the biggest questions is why so many people seem unable to control their gambling behaviour, despite the harmful impact on their lives.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 14, 2007 |
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University’s aerial survey finds sharks in Cornwall's waters
Recent surveys around Cornwall’s coast have revealed the presence of large numbers of giant basking sharks. Scientists from the University of Exeter’s Cornwall Campus and the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) spotted 18 sharks ...
Biology /
Aug 14, 2007 |
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Researcher Presents Origin-Of-Life Theory for Young Earth
Some of the elements necessary to support life on Earth are widely known - oxygen, carbon and water, to name a few. Just as important in the existence of life as any other component is the presence of adenine, an essential ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 14, 2007 |
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New NASA Software Monitors Space Station Gyroscopes
NASA has added a new computer program to help monitor the four gyroscopes that keep the International Space Station properly oriented without the use of rocket fuel. During a spacewalk on Monday, two astronauts from the space ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 14, 2007 |
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Team finds way to create cancer stem cells
MIT scientists and colleagues have found a way to create in the lab large amounts of cancer stem cells, or cells that can initiate tumors. The work, reported in the August 13 issue of Cancer Cell, could be a b ...
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10 years after: Promised reform in South African telecommunications fails
The end of apartheid in South Africa in 1994 brought the African National Congress to political power along with a mandate for reform of nearly all the nation’s institutions, including the telecommunications sector. But ...
Aug 14, 2007 |
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Features of replication suggest viruses have common themes, vulnerabilities
A study of the reproductive apparatus of a model virus is bolstering the idea that broad classes of viruses - including those that cause important human diseases such as AIDS, SARS and hepatitis C - have features in common ...
Biology /
Aug 14, 2007 |
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New study warns limited carbon market puts 20 percent of tropical forest at risk
In an ironic twist, 11 countries that have avoided widespread destruction of their tropical forest are at risk of being left out of an emerging carbon market intended to promote rainforest conservation to combat climate change.
Aug 14, 2007 |
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Radiologists encouraged to look beyond cancer for clinically unseen diseases
Radiologists can diagnose venous thromboembolic disease (VTED) in cancer patients earlier by looking more carefully at CT scans of the thorax, abdomen, and pelvis which are regularly done to determine the extent or stage ...
Aug 14, 2007 |
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Stomach cancer rate set to fall further 25 percent over next decade
New cases of stomach cancer are set to plummet a further 25 per cent in the West over the next decade, indicates research published ahead of print in the journal Gut.
Aug 14, 2007 |
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Birds learn to fly with a little help from their ancestors
A researcher at the University of Sheffield has discovered that the reason birds learn to fly so easily is because latent memories may have been left behind by their ancestors.
Biology /
Aug 14, 2007 |
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Comet probes reveal evidence of origin of life, scientists claim
Recent probes inside comets show it is overwhelmingly likely that life began in space, according to a new paper by Cardiff University scientists.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 14, 2007 |
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Interaction of just 2 genes governs coloration patterns in mice
Biologists at Harvard University and the University of California, San Diego, have found that a simple interaction between just two genes determines the patterns of fur coloration that camouflage mice against their background, ...
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Aug 14, 2007 |
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Clones on task serve greater good, evolutionary study shows
“Don’t ever change” isn’t just a romantic platitude. It’s a solid evolutionary strategy. At least if you’re among the creatures that produce scads of genetically identical offspring – like microbes, plants or water fleas. ...
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