Olive oil ingredient ups the time between meals
A fatty acid found in abundance in olive oil and other "healthy" unsaturated fats has yet another benefit: it helps keep the body satisfied to prolong the time between meals.
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New knowledge about thermoelectric materials could give better energy efficiency
Thermoelectric materials can be assembled into units, which can transform the thermal difference to electrical energy or vice versa – electrical current to cooling. An effective utilization requires however that the material ...
Nanomaterials
Oct 7, 2008
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Long-Lasting Quantum Memory Leads to Long-Distance Quantum Communication
(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists have taken a step closer to realizing long-distance quantum communication, in which a quantum state is transferred from one location to another by becoming entangled with a traveling photon.
Deepest living fishes caught on camera for the first time
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists filming in one of the world's deepest ocean trenches have found groups of highly sociable snailfish swarming over their bait, nearly five miles (7700 metres) beneath the surface of the Pacific ...
Oct 7, 2008
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Boosting the capabilities of emergency relief efforts
Humanitarian relief efforts are often hampered by the inability of the different international and local bodies involved to properly communicate and share information. European researchers have come up with a new system to ...
Engineering
Oct 7, 2008
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COROT discovery stirs exoplanet classification rethink
(PhysOrg.com) -- COROT has discovered a massive planet-sized object orbiting its parent star closely, unlike anything ever spotted before. It is so exotic, that scientists are unsure as to whether this oddity is actually ...
Astronomy
Oct 7, 2008
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Egg whites solve the 3-D problem
The real world is three-dimensional. That's true even in the laboratory, where scientists have to grow cells to study how they develop and what happens when their growth is abnormal.
Oct 7, 2008
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Killing 'angry' immune cells in fat could fight diabetes
By killing off "angry" immune cells that take up residence in obese fat and muscle tissue, researchers have shown that they can rapidly reverse insulin resistance in obese mice. The findings reported in the October Cell Metabolism, ...
Oct 7, 2008
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Scientists probe mechanism of asymmetry in meiotic cell division
The Stowers Institute's Rong Li Lab has characterized a mechanism that allows for asymmetrical cell division during meiosis in oocytes. By tracking chromosome movement in live mouse oocytes, the team discovered that chromosomes ...
Oct 7, 2008
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Electricity supply: Sustainable sources remain expensive
Ambitious governments' environmental objectives for the electricity sector are only possible at a high price. This is one of the conclusions of researcher ir. Hans Rödel, who is to receive his PhD at TU Delft on Thursday ...
Environment
Oct 7, 2008
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