Archive: 10/29/2008
A glacier's life
EPFL researchers have developed a numerical model that can re-create the state of Switzerland's Rhône Glacier as it was in 1874 and predict its evolution until the year 2100. This is the longest period of time ever modeled ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
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Scientist clears hurdles for muscular dystrophy therapy
Approximately 250,000 people in the United States have some form of muscular dystrophy. Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is the most common type of the disease, predominantly affecting males. Boys with DMD will lose the ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Oct 29, 2008 |
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Understanding the 'Wow Factor'
(PhysOrg.com) -- What links a neuroscientist with a social anthropologist and the UK’s premier independent art charity? The answer is the visual perception of art. When, why and how are individuals moved by a piece of art ...
Oct 29, 2008 |
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3.4 million deaths averted through GAVI-funded immunization programs
3.4 million deaths will be averted in the world's poorest countries through immunisation funded by the GAVI Alliance between 2000 and 2008, according to new data released by the World Health Organization (WHO).
Oct 29, 2008 |
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Grapes may aid a bunch of heart risk factors, animal study finds
Could eating grapes help fight high blood pressure related to a salty diet? And could grapes calm other factors that are also related to heart diseases such as heart failure? A new University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center ...
Biology /
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T.rex 'followed its nose' while hunting
Although we know quite a bit about the lifestyle of dinosaur; where they lived, what they ate, how they walked, not much was known about their sense of smell, until now.
Biology /
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Pay for performance has improved blood pressure monitoring and reduced health inequalities
Pay for performance has substantially improved blood pressure monitoring and control in England, and the difference in monitoring levels between the most and least deprived areas has all but disappeared.
Oct 29, 2008 |
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Abducted children: Conventional photos alone don't aid the search
People's ability to recognise abducted children is impaired when they view a photo of a smiling, clean child, but come into contact with the same child whose appearance is very different because he or she is upset, crying, ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 29, 2008 |
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Supercomputer provides massive computational boost to biomedical research at TGen
In less time than the blink of an eye, the Translational Genomics Research Institute's new supercomputer at Arizona State University can do operations equal to every dollar in the recent Wall Street bailout.
Oct 29, 2008 |
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Brain's 'hate circuit' identified
People who view pictures of someone they hate display activity in distinct areas of the brain that, together, may be thought of as a 'hate circuit', according to new research by scientists at UCL (University College London).
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 29, 2008 |
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New Way of Measuring 'Reality' of Virtual Worlds Could Lead To Better Business Tools
(PhysOrg.com) -- A research team, led by North Carolina State University's Dr. Mitzi M. Montoya, has developed a new way of measuring how "real" online virtual worlds are – an important advance for the emerging technology ...
Oct 29, 2008 |
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Turbocharged Nanomotors
(PhysOrg.com) -- Nanorobots that are introduced into the body to eradicate tumor cells or clean out clogged arteries are not just science fiction; they are a realistic vision of the technological possibilities of the not-so-distant ...
Oct 29, 2008 |
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