Pure mathematics behind the mechanics
Dutch researcher Peter Hochs has discovered that the same effects can be observed in quantum and classical mechanics, if quantisation is used.
Mathematics
Feb 7, 2008
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PARP-1 rules! Scientists find how a protein binds to genes and regulates human genome
Out of chaos, control: Cornell University molecular biologists have discovered how a protein called PARP-1 binds to genes and regulates their expression across the human genome. Knowing where PARP-1 is located and how it ...
Feb 7, 2008
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Study: Destroying native ecosystems for biofuel crops worsens global warming
Turning native ecosystems into “farms” for biofuel crops causes major carbon emissions that worsen the global warming that biofuels are meant to mitigate, according to a new study by the University of Minnesota and the ...
Environment
Feb 7, 2008
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Researcher leads international effort to create 'proteinpedia'
A researcher at the Johns Hopkins Institute of Genetic Medicine has led the effort to compile to date the largest free resource of experimental information about human proteins. Reporting in the February issue of Nature Biotechnology, ...
Feb 7, 2008
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Knee brace generates electricity from walking
A new energy-capturing knee brace can generate enough electricity from walking to operate a portable GPS locator, a cell phone, a motorized prosthetic joint or an implanted neurotransmitter, research involving the University ...
Engineering
Feb 7, 2008
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Eat up all of your Brussels sprouts -- unless you're an aphid
Aphids that eat Brussels sprouts are smaller than normal and live in undersized populations, which has a negative knock-on effect up the food chain according to new research published today in Science.
Feb 7, 2008
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Tomato pathogen genome may offer clues about bacterial evolution at dawn of agriculture
The availability of new genome sequencing technology has prompted a Virginia Tech plant scientist to test an intriguing hypothesis about how agriculture’s early beginnings may have impacted the evolution of plant pathogens.
Feb 7, 2008
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First documented case of pest resistance to biotech cotton
A pest insect known as bollworm is the first to evolve resistance in the field to plants modified to produce an insecticide called Bt, according to a new research report. Bt-resistant populations of bollworm, Helicoverpa ...
Feb 7, 2008
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Researchers give new hybrid vehicle its first test drive in the ocean
Taking a page out of a science fiction story, researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and Webb Research Corporation (Falmouth, Mass.) have successfully flown the first environmentally powered robotic ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 7, 2008
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Computer interaction gets some humanity
Human-computer interaction has not improved enormously since Mark Twain's time, when the typewriter was invented. A European research task force hopes to change that by making human-computer interaction, well, ‘similar’ ...
Computer Sciences
Feb 7, 2008
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