News tagged with sleep fragmentation

Link found between poor sleep quality and increased risk of death

Quality, in addition to quantity, is important for maintaining health, according to new research. Results indicate that over the average follow-up of eight years, 854 of the 5,614 participants died. Two sleep-stage transition ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 10, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Navigating the neurochemical space by computer-aided molecular design

Pharmaceutical scientists from VU University Amsterdam and colleagues from the University of Vienna and Medical University of Vienna have gained new insights into the molecular basis of the GABAA receptors, ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Trojan horse bacteria use nanobodies to conquer sleeping sickness

Sleeping sickness, caused by the trypanosome Trypanosoma brucei, is transmitted to humans (and animals) via the bite of the tsetse fly. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Microbial Cell Factories ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 14, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Bus-sized asteroid shaves by Earth

An asteroid about the size of a bus shaved by Earth on Friday in what spacewatchers described as a "near-miss," though experts were not concerned about the possibility of an impact.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 28, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (21) | comments 21

What will happen to soil carbon as the climate changes? A team of scientists seeks answers

(PhysOrg.com) -- The ground beneath your feet could hide a sleeping giant. Globally, soils store three times as much carbon as there is in the atmosphere or in living plants.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 06, 2011 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 4

Hundreds of undiscovered artefacts found at Gallipoli

More than 100 artefacts from the First World War have been uncovered in an archaeological fieldwork survey on the Gallipoli battlefield, leading to some interesting theories about life on the frontline according to University ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Oct 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Major river basins have enough water to sustainably double food production in the coming decades

While water-related conflicts and shortages abound throughout the rapidly changing societies of Africa, Asia and Latin America, there is clearly sufficient water to sustain food, energy, industrial and environmental needs ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Where have all the dodos gone?

Biology professor Beth Shapiro is one part laboratory scientist and one part Indiana Jones style adventurer, traveling to remote locations to find fossilized bones and eggshells of ancient animals and extract ...

Biology / Other

created Jun 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Journey to the center of the Amazon

The Amazon Rainforest is the largest tropical rainforest on Earth and home to millions of species. Yet, deforestation, or the clearing of forested areas, poses a threat to the livelihood of the forest.

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Baby stars born to 'napping' parents

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cardiff University astronomers believe that a young star's long "napping" could trigger the formation of a second generation of smaller stars and planets orbiting around it.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Mar 09, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Archaeologists find hidden African side to noted 1780s Md. building

One of North America's most famous Revolutionary-era buildings – a lone-surviving testament to an Enlightenment ideal – has a hidden West African face, University of Maryland archaeologists have ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Feb 14, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 1


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