Archive: 02/18/2008
Fighting 'fat bloom' can mean a prettier look for Valentine’s Day chocolates
Chemists in England and the Netherlands have discovered a substance that could keep those boxes of Valentine’s Day chocolates, and other goodies, looking fresher and tastier. Their finding, which prevents ...
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Unveiling the underwater ways of the white shark
It's hard to study a creature when you only catch fleeting glimpses of it. Up until recently, that was one of the big stumbling blocks for marine biologists and ecologists, but advances in electronic tracking technology have ...
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Cocaine's effects on brain metabolism may contribute to abuse
Many studies on cocaine addiction - and attempts to block its addictiveness - have focused on dopamine transporters, proteins that reabsorb the brain's "reward" chemical once its signal is sent. Since cocaine blocks dopamine ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
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Poverty can hurt brain development
Poverty appears to have dramatic effects on the brain development and function of young children, U.S. researchers said.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
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Children's IQs go up when parents learn
The IQs of preschool-aged children who belong to low-income families improved after parents took a child-learning course, University of Oregon experts said.
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Girl with four kidneys plans to donate
A teenage girl with four kidneys has decided to donate her two extra organs after the anomaly was discovered in Leeds, England.
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New eagle crowding nesting eagle pair
A pair of bald eagles nesting in Virginia's Norfolk Botanical Garden are used to being visited by people, but now must deal with an interloping female eagle.
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Endeavour moves to launchpad
Space shuttle Endeavour arrived at its launchpad Monday at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, in advance of its scheduled March 11 launch.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
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Laser light may be able to detect diseases on the breath
By blasting a person's breath with laser light, scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Colorado at Boulder have shown that they can detect molecules that may ...
Feb 18, 2008 |
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Into the abyss: Deep-sixing carbon
Imagine a gigantic, inflatable, sausage-like bag capable of storing 160 million tonnes of CO2 – the equivalent of 2.2 days of current global emissions. Now try to picture that container, measuring up to 100 metres in radius ...
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Learning from cod collapse to save tuna
Continued mismanagement could force some tuna populations to quickly go the way of cod, a highly threatened fishery that once helped shape economies of whole nations, leading scientists said in the symposium “Last Best Chance ...
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Major study links insurance status to advanced stage in multiple cancers
A new American Cancer Society study of twelve types of cancer among more than 3.5 million cancer patients finds uninsured patients were significantly more likely to present with advanced stage cancer compared to patients ...
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Wearable Robotics Aid Construction Workers
Applied scientists and engineers at Nagayo University in Japan introduced a prototype wearable half-robotic device designed for carpentry workers. The study of carpentry workers utilizing the device in the ...
Feb 18, 2008 |
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Solar cell directly splits water for hydrogen
Plants trees and algae do it. Even some bacteria and moss do it, but scientists have had a difficult time developing methods to turn sunlight into useful fuel. Now, Penn State researchers have a proof-of-concept device that ...
Feb 18, 2008 |
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Herpes virus link to complications in pregnancy
Researchers at Adelaide's Women's & Children's Hospital and the University of Adelaide, Australia, have made a world-first discovery that links viral infection with high blood pressure during pregnancy and pre-term birth.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
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