Archive: 01/19/2007
Male fish turn to cannibalism when uncertain of paternity
A study from the February issue of the American Naturalist is the first to demonstrate that male fish are more likely to eat their offspring when they have been cuckolded during the act of spawning. Moreov ...
Biology /
Jan 19, 2007 |
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Ultra-Dense Optical Storage -- on One Photon
Researchers at the University of Rochester have made an optics breakthrough that allows them to encode an entire image's worth of data into a photon, slow the image down for storage, and then retrieve the image ...
Jan 19, 2007 |
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Corals show Aussie drought link to Asian monsoon
Droughts of greater severity and length could be in store for Australia and Indonesia if the Asian monsoon system continues to strengthen, palaeoclimatologists have warned.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 19, 2007 |
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Researchers discover new class of compounds with novel chemistry
Researchers have discovered a new class of aluminum-hydrogen complexes that exhibits unique chemistry and may one day be used as basic building blocks to create materials for use in alternative forms of energy and high energetic ...
Jan 19, 2007 |
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Comet McNaught - A First Light Present for STEREO
This image of Comet McNaught comes from the Heliospheric Imager on one of the STEREO spacecraft, taken Jan. 11, 2007. To the right is the comet nucleus, so bright it saturates the detector creating a bright ...
Jan 19, 2007 |
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MIT develops measures to predict performance of complex systems
Taking a cue from the financial world, MIT researchers along with experts in industry and government have developed a list of 13 measures that engineers can use to predict how well a system--or project--will perform before ...
Jan 19, 2007 |
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Aspirin saves lives of cancer patients suffering heart attacks, despite fears of bleeding
Many cancer patients who have heart attacks often are not treated with life saving aspirin given the belief in the medical community that they could experience lethal bleeding. Researchers at The University of Texas M. D. ...
Jan 19, 2007 |
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Combination therapy spares some head and neck patients from surgery
Giving patients with head and neck cancer a combination of chemotherapy and radiation therapy controls the cancer and allows many patients to avoid additional surgery to the neck, according to a study presented at the plenary ...
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The hitchhiker's guide to altruism -- Study explains how costly traits evolve
Darwin explained how beneficial traits accumulate in natural populations, but how do costly traits evolve? In the past, two theories have addressed this problem.
Biology /
Jan 19, 2007 |
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Tears reveal some of their deepest secrets to researchers
It's no secret why we shed tears. But exactly what our tears are made of has remained a mystery to scientists.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 19, 2007 |
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Super honeycomb shows more potential for carbon nanotubes
The hexagonal network structure makes these nanotubes look a bit like a honeycomb—or, when stretched a bit, like a hammock or fish net. In fact, the stretchiness of these 20-nm-long carbon nanotubes enables ...
Jan 19, 2007 |
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Lifestyle changes effective in protecting against Type II diabetes
Changing to a healthier lifestyle appears to be at least as effective as taking prescription drugs in reducing the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, says a new BMJ study.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 19, 2007 |
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There is a dark side to the humble raindrop
A single drop is harmless, but when billions of raindrops fall from a cloudburst onto bare soil they strike like billions of tiny hammers, dislodging tons of soil per acre which is carried away by surface runoff.
Jan 19, 2007 |
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Nanocomposite research yields strong and stretchy fibers
Creating artificial substances that are both stretchy and strong has long been an elusive engineering goal. Inspired by spider silk, a naturally occurring strong and stretchy substance, MIT researchers have ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jan 19, 2007 |
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