Archive: 10/19/2007
The solution to a 7-decade mystery is crystal-clear to FSU chemist
A Florida State University researcher has helped solve a scientific mystery that stumped chemists for nearly seven decades. In so doing, his team’s findings may lead to the development of more-powerful computer ...
Oct 19, 2007 |
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Scientists find predisposition to bronchiolitis in some babies
Scientists have found that a large proportion of infants who suffer from bronchiolitis have an inherent pre-disposition to the disease.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Oct 19, 2007 |
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Columbus hatch closed for last time
Preparations of the European Columbus laboratory took an important step earlier this week with the final closure of the module’s hatch ahead of the December launch to the International Space Station.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 19, 2007 |
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Glue inside the cell
The acquired immune response is triggered after specific engagement of foreign peptides (antigens) by receptor molecules on white blood cell (lymphocytes). Cellular signaling pathways are responsible for the activation of ...
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Oct 19, 2007 |
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Birth of an iceberg
New images, acquired by Envisat’s Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) instrument, show the breaking away of a giant iceberg from the Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica. Spanning 34 km in length by ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 19, 2007 |
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New Technologies That May Save Lives
As part of the M-Taiwan project, NEC and Tatung will demonstrate life saving technologies at the WiMax Forum next week. The forum will display the efforts of NEC in providing ambulance to hospital large file ...
Oct 19, 2007 |
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Combining solid-state physics with quantum optics
One of the more interesting advances in science is the use of the atom chip. As the demands of technology require smaller and smaller components, studying the fundamentals of physics at the quantum level will become increasingly ...
Oct 19, 2007 |
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Killifish can adapt to life in a tree
Biologists in Belize and Florida have discovered that the mangrove killifish lives in trees when the water they usually live in has disappeared.
Biology /
Oct 19, 2007 |
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Study looks at metal baseball bat safety
Baseball players who use alloy bats are no more likely to be injured than those using wooden bats, a study in Illinois found.
Oct 19, 2007 |
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New malaria drug works in infants
Scientists say a new malaria vaccine being tested in Mozambique was successful in protecting infants less than 1 year old.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Oct 19, 2007 |
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Court ruling hurts asbestos workers
Welsh factory workers who suffer scarring of the lung tissue from asbestos may have lost their right to file for compensation.
Oct 19, 2007 |
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Six staph cases reported in North Carolina
School officials in Winston-Salem, N.C., said six football players at East Forsyth High School were found to have drug-resistant staph infections.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Oct 19, 2007 |
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Transgenics transformed
A new method of constructing artificial plant chromosomes from small rings of naturally occurring plant DNA can be used to transport multiple genes at once into embryonic plants where they are expressed, duplicated as plant ...
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Oct 19, 2007 |
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Influenza spreads readily in winter conditions
Low temperatures and relative humidities have been linked to the rapid spread of influenza in a new study by researchers, led by Dr. Peter Palese, from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. The study, published in PLoS Pa ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 19, 2007 |
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Brightness and darkness as perceptual dimensions
A common-sense assumption concerning visual perception states that brightness and darkness cannot coexist at a given spatial location. One corollary of this assumption is that achromatic colors, or perceived grey shades, ...
Biology /
Oct 19, 2007 |
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