A tiny but powerful engine that propels the bacterium Bacillus subtilis through liquids is disengaged from the corkscrew-like flagellum by a protein clutch, Indiana University Bloomington and Harvard Univer ...
Jun 19, 2008
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Hikers visiting the Kilauea Iki crater in Hawaii today walk along a mostly flat surface of sparsely vegetated basalt. It looks like parking lot asphalt, but in November and December 1959, it emitted the orange ...
Jun 19, 2008
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[B]Temperatures spiked 22 degrees F in just 50 years, researchers say[/B] Information gleaned from a Greenland ice core by an international science team shows that two huge Northern Hemisphere temperature spi ...
Jun 19, 2008
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Researchers at Purdue University are developing a miniature refrigeration system small enough to fit inside laptops and personal computers, a cooling technology that would boost performance while shrinking the size of computers.
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[B]U-M study lays groundwork for better ways to choose effective treatments, provides insights on other cancers[/B] A University of Michigan study reveals in detail how breast cells produce new cells tha ...
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[B]Star-shaped brain cells shown to play key role[/B] In work that solves a long-standing mystery in neuroscience, researchers at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory have shown for the first time that star-shaped bra ...
Jun 19, 2008
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What causes a woman's eggs to deteriorate in quality with age, and can that be reversed?How does the ovary choose an egg -- out of a stash of roughly one million -- to release for ovulation? And can the ovary be influenced ...
Jun 19, 2008
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Higher than expected levels of sodium found in a 4.6 billion-year-old meteorite suggest that the dust clouds from which the building blocks of the Earth and neighboring planets formed were much denser than previously supposed. ...
Jun 19, 2008
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A basic tenet of economics is that people always behave selfishly, or as the 18th century philosopher economist David Hume put it, "every man ought to be supposed to be a knave."
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Stanford, CA. The Carnegie Institution's Department of Plant Biology announced the launch of a new web-based resource that promises to help researchers around the world meet increasing demands for food production, animal ...
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Yale University researchers have shed new light how bacteria like the ones that cause Legionnaires' disease and Q-fever raise such havoc in human patients.
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People with a variant of the first common gene linked to obesity on average eat more, according to new research.
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European researchers have developed a computer system designed to give health care professionals access to a broader range of medical information.
Jun 19, 2008
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Researchers at the University of Alberta in Edmonton studying the connection between loud sounds and reaction time are reporting findings that may have sprinters thinking twice about lane assignments at the upcoming Olympics. ...
Jun 19, 2008
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A Michigan State University researcher has created an automatic image retrieval system, whereby law enforcement agencies will be able to match scars, marks and tattoos to identify suspects and victims.
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