Fat for better drug function
Scientists have long known that food digestion affects the way the body absorbs various compounds—from nutrients to drugs and toxins.
Biochemistry
Aug 9, 2012
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How low can you go? Stanford experts weigh in on the tone of 2012 presidential race
The race for president has turned nasty over the past several weeks and it's only going to get worse. Or at least that's what we're told.
Social Sciences
Aug 9, 2012
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Commercial-free TV: Device impresses judges at technology contest
(Phys.org) -- A design by a team of Arizona State University engineering majors for a device that detects upcoming advertisements on television and videos – and can then automatically switch during commercial breaks ...
Engineering
Aug 9, 2012
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Ultrafast pulsed lasers… more than just a lightshow
A Navy ship at sea is surrounded by water, with nothing but its carrier group in site, and searches the skies for activity overhead. Isolated radars on each ship in the group scan independently of each other with limited ...
Other
Aug 9, 2012
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New material of mammal Coryphodontid found from the Erlian Basin of Nei Mongol
Coryphodontids, are a group of extinct large herbivorous mammals widespread in Eurasia and North America from late Paleocene to middle Eocene, placed in the archaic, extinct order Pantodonta, and are among the most useful ...
Archaeology
Aug 9, 2012
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Picturing the past
Computing and archaeology are unrelated. Or are they? Could an invention of the modern age actually benefit a field that focuses on the past? The answer is yes, says a University of Toronto Mississauga researcher. And he’s ...
Archaeology
Aug 9, 2012
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Shipwreck mystery solved
(Phys.org) -- University of Delaware researchers have discovered that a shipwreck near the coast of Cape Henlopen is a 215-footlong sailing vessel destroyed by a hurricane more than a century ago.
Archaeology
Aug 9, 2012
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Plenty of dark matter near the Sun
(Phys.org) -- Astronomers at the University of Zürich, the ETH Zurich, the University of Leicester and NAOC Beijing have found large amounts of invisible "dark matter" near the Sun. Their results are consistent with ...
Astronomy
Aug 9, 2012
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New metamaterials device focuses sound waves like a camera lens
(Phys.org) -- In a cover article in The Journal of Applied Physics, a team of Penn State researchers has designed and computationally tested a type of manmade metamaterial capable for the first time of manipulating a variety ...
Optics & Photonics
Aug 9, 2012
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Shelling out evidence: NIST ballistic standard helps tie guns to criminals
(Phys.org) -- Thanks to a new reference standard developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), law enforcement agencies will have an easier time linking the nearly 200,000 cartridge cases recovered ...
Engineering
Aug 9, 2012
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