Archive: 01/27/2009
Single Atom Quantum Dots Bring Real Devices Closer (Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Single atom quantum dots created by researchers at Canada’s National Institute for Nanotechnology and the University of Alberta make possible a new level of control over individual electrons, ...
Jan 27, 2009 |
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Newborn infants detect the beat in music
Researchers at the Institute for Psychology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation of the University of Amsterdam demonstrated that two to three day old babies can detect ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 27, 2009 |
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Researchers find traces of mercury in high-fructose corn syrup
A swig of soda or bite of a candy bar might be sweet, but a new study suggests that food made with corn syrup also could be delivering tiny doses of toxic mercury.
Jan 27, 2009 |
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Researchers Reprogram Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
For the first time, UCLA researchers have reprogrammed human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells into the cells that eventually become eggs and sperm, possibly opening the door for new treatments for infertility using patient-specific ...
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Fast-food diet cancels out benefits of breastfeeding in preventing asthma
Many studies have shown that breastfeeding appears to reduce the chance of children developing asthma. But a newly published study led by a University of Alberta professor has found that eating fast food more than once or ...
Jan 27, 2009 |
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Can payment and other innovations improve the quality and value of health care?
A paramount topic at the moment is value in health care: What should we pay for and how much? Resources aren't unlimited, and desires or demands for health care should be balanced against various realities--including the ...
Jan 27, 2009 |
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The pseudogap persists as material superconducts
For nearly a century, scientists have been trying to unravel the many mysteries of superconductivity, where materials conduct electricity with zero resistance.
Jan 27, 2009 |
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Gene-engineered flies are pest solution
For the first time, male flies of a serious agricultural pest, the medfly, have been bred to generate offspring that die whilst they are still embryos. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Biology describe the ...
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Jan 27, 2009 |
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New finding about the bane of parents' lives -- head lice
(PhysOrg.com) -- Head lice are a challenge for parents of primary-school aged children all around the world, including Australia.
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Hoarding rainwater could 'dramatically' expand range of dengue-fever mosquito
Ecologists have developed a new model to predict the impact of climate change on the dengue fever-carrying mosquito Aedes aegypti in Australia - information that could help limit its spread.
Jan 27, 2009 |
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Move over, sponges: New evidence confirms Placozoans are the closest living surrogate to the ancestor of all animals
A new and comprehensive analysis confirms that the evolutionary relationships among animals are not as simple as previously thought. The traditional idea that animal evolution has followed a trajectory from ...
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Jan 27, 2009 |
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Controlling neglected tropical diseases may be key to US foreign policy
Stating that neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) not only promote poverty but also destabilize communities, former Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson and Sabin Vaccine Institute President Peter Hotez call upon ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
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Natural selection is not the only process that drives evolution
Why have some of our genes evolved rapidly? It is widely believed that Darwinian natural selection is responsible, but research led by a group at Uppsala University, suggests that a separate neutral (nonadaptive) process ...
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