Archive: 10/25/2006
Space radiation threats to astronauts addressed in federal research study
A better understanding of solar storms and how best to protect astronauts from space radiation is needed as NASA pushes toward manned missions to the moon and Mars in the coming decades, according to a new National Research ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 25, 2006 |
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NASA Looks at Sea Level Rise, Hurricane Risks to New York City
New York City has been an area of concern during hurricane season for many years because of the large population and logistics. More than 8 million people live in the city, and it has hundreds of miles of coastline ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 25, 2006 |
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Pint-sized car engine promises high efficiency
MIT researchers are developing a half-sized gasoline engine that performs like its full-sized cousin but offers fuel efficiency approaching that of today's hybrid engine system--at a far lower cost. The key? ...
Oct 25, 2006 |
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Deadly frog disease is linked to climate change in Europe, say researchers
Climate change in Europe is worsening the impact of a deadly disease which is wiping out vast numbers of amphibians, according to new research.
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Team develops DNA switch to interface living organisms with computers
Researchers at the University of Portsmouth, UK, have developed an electronic switch based on DNA - a world-first bio-nanotechnology breakthrough that provides the foundation for the interface between living organisms and ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Oct 25, 2006 |
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Study: LA Has State's Worst Beach Water
(AP) -- A study released Tuesday found that once again Los Angeles County has the state's most polluted beaches, but this time a new city has been anointed as the county's biggest loser - Long Beach.
Oct 25, 2006 |
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Researchers make important advancement in unraveling mysteries of fusion energy
Unraveling one of most grandiose and heady problems in physics -- the creation of controlled fusion energy -- is still decades away. But thanks to research done recently on a smaller, less grandiose scale at the Nevada Terawatt ...
Oct 25, 2006 |
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Earthquake swarms not just clustered around volcanoes, geothermal regions
An earthquake swarm – a steady drumbeat of moderate, related seismic events – over hours or days, often can be observed near a volcano such as Mount St. Helens in Washington state or in a geothermal region such as Yellowstone ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 25, 2006 |
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Mouse DNA to aid biomedical research
Researchers announced today that they have successfully resequenced the DNA of 15 mouse strains most commonly used in biomedical research. More than 8.3 million single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were discovered among ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 25, 2006 |
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Scientists identify 36 genes, 100 neuropeptides in honey bee brains
From humans to honey bees, neuropeptides control brain activity and, hence, our behaviors. Understanding the roles these peptides play in the life of a honey bee will assist researchers in understanding the roles they play ...
Biology /
Oct 25, 2006 |
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Honey bee chemoreceptors found for smell and taste
Honey bees have a much better sense of smell than fruit flies or mosquitoes, but a much worse sense of taste, according to researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Oct 25, 2006 |
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Scientists Find Lamprey a 'Living Fossil' -- 360 Million-year-old Fish Hasn't Evolved Much
Scientists from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and the University of Chicago have uncovered a remarkably well-preserved fossil lamprey from the Devonian period that reveals today’s lampreys ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 25, 2006 |
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Appalachian Mountains, carbon dioxide caused long-ago global cooling
The rise of the Appalachian Mountains may have caused a major ice age approximately 450 million years ago, an Ohio State University study has found.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 25, 2006 |
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Oldest Complex Organic Molecules Found in Ancient Fossils
Ohio State University geologists have isolated complex organic molecules from 350-million-year-old fossil sea creatures -- the oldest such molecules yet found. The molecules may have functioned as pigments, ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 25, 2006 |
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