Archive: 11/20/2008
Bad cholesterol inhibits the breakdown of peripheral fat
The so called bad cholesterol (LDL) inhibits the breakdown of fat in cells of peripheral deposits, according to a study from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet. The discovery reveals a novel function of ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
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New research will seal the future of green packaging
Researchers at the University of Bath and the food & drinks research centre at Campden BRI are leading a project to create a new high speed environmentally-friendly packaging process that will use recycled ...
Nov 20, 2008 |
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Fountain of Youth to be found in the anthill?
Aging – we are all doing it. It is relentless and terminal. Auguries and alchemists, mendicants and magicians, philosophers and science fiction writers, researchers and plastic surgeons have employed all their ...
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How Time-Traveling Could Affect Quantum Computing
(PhysOrg.com) -- If space-time were constructed in such a way that you could travel back in time, it would create some pretty strange effects. One of these oddities, as many people know, is the “grandfather paradox.” Here, ...
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Oh, what a feeling! Brain-injured recover emotional perception skills
People who have lost the ability to interpret emotion after a severe brain injury can regain this vital social skill by being re-educated to read body language, facial expressions and voice tone in others, according to a ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 20, 2008 |
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New material could make gases more transportable
Chemists at the University of Liverpool have developed a way of converting methane gas into a powder form in order to make it more transportable.
Nov 20, 2008 |
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Where there's wildfire smoke, there's toxicity
The health threat to city dwellers posed by Southern California wildfires like those of November 2008 may have been underestimated by officials.
Nov 20, 2008 |
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