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Mindfulness Training Improves Sleep Quality; Lessens Need for Sleep Medicines
(PhysOrg.com) -- Stressed-out people sleep better and take sleep medication less often when they learn to let go of intrusive thoughts, according to researchers at Duke Integrative Medicine.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 25, 2009 |
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Baboons, Humans Adapted Similarly to Malaria (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Evolutionarily speaking, baboons may be our more distant cousins among primates. But when it comes to our experiences with malaria over the course of time, it seems the stories of our two ...
Jun 24, 2009 |
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Bringing Girls and Boys to Computer Science with 'Alice'
(PhysOrg.com) -- Duke University computer scientist Susan Rodger is hoping ice skaters, cute animals and fearsome dragons will bring new talent to her field.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Jun 22, 2009 |
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Autonomous robot detects shrapnel
Bioengineers at Duke University have developed a laboratory robot that can successfully locate tiny pieces of metal within flesh and guide a needle to its exact location -- all without the need for human assistance.
Jun 18, 2009 |
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Novel approach estimates nanoparticles in environment
Without knowing how much of an industrial chemical is being produced, it is almost impossible for scientists to determine if it poses any threat to the environment or human health.
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
May 20, 2009 |
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Mangroves Save Lives In Storms
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study of storm-related deaths from a super cyclone that hit the eastern coast of India in 1999 finds that villages shielded from the storm surge by mangrove forests experienced significantly ...
Apr 14, 2009 |
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New MRI signaling method could picture disease metabolism in action
Duke University chemists are using modified magnetic resonance imaging to see molecular changes inside people's bodies that could signal health problems such as cancer.
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Mar 26, 2009 |
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New Clues about Genetic Influence of Stress on Men's Health
Men with a common genetic variant produce more than twice as much of a hormone known to increase blood pressure and blood sugar when they are angry, according to researchers from Duke University Medical Center.
Mar 06, 2009 |
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Study critiques corn-for-ethanol's carbon footprint
To avoid creating greenhouse gases, it makes more sense using today's technology to leave land unfarmed in conservation reserves than to plow it up for corn to make biofuel, according to a comprehensive Duke University-led ...
Mar 02, 2009 |
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Jordan's fossil water source has high radiation levels
Ancient groundwater being tapped by Jordan, one of the 10 most water-deprived nations in the world, has been found to contain twenty times the radiation considered safe for drinking water in a new study by an international ...
Feb 24, 2009 |
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Scientists Find Rare, Potent Antibody to HIV-1
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Duke University Medical Center have for the first time isolated an important antibody in human serum that could potentially play a key role in the design of an AIDS vaccine. The research appears ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Feb 23, 2009 |
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New software dramatically speeds enzyme design
A Duke University-led team has brought powerful software to the never-ending arms race between antibiotics and germs. Working together, computer scientists and biochemists have developed and laboratory-tested a computer program ...
Feb 16, 2009 |
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Ultracold gas mimics ultrahot plasma
Several years after Duke University researchers announced spectacular behavior of a low density ultracold gas cloud, researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratory have observed strikingly similar properties in a very hot ...
Feb 15, 2009 |
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Pre-verbal number sense common to monkeys, babies, college kids
Basic arithmetic and "number sense" appear to be part of the shared evolutionary past of many primates; it's the use of language to explain abstractions that apparently takes human math to a higher level.
Biology /
Feb 13, 2009 |
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Game provides clue to improving remote sensing
A newly developed mathematical model that figures out the best strategy to win the popular board game CLUE© could some day help robot mine sweepers navigate strange surroundings to find hidden explosives.
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jan 27, 2009 |
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