Scientists clock on to how sunlight shapes daily rhythms
Fresh insight into how biological clocks adjust to having less sunlight in the winter could help us better understand the impact of jet lag and shift work.
Biotechnology
Nov 22, 2010
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Cohabiting parents struggle with nonstandard work schedules
Irregular work schedules appear harmful to the well-being of cohabiting parents, a growing segment of the U.S. population, a study by Michigan State University researchers finds.
Social Sciences
Nov 11, 2010
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Noninvasive and accurate: Absolute temperature mapping for biomedical applications
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in Germany and the US have developed a new approach to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) thermometry using encaged hyperpolarized xenon as a temperature sensor. The method allows absolute temperature ...
Analytical Chemistry
Sep 20, 2010
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Biochemical link between biological clock and diabetes discovered
Biologists have found that a key protein that regulates the biological clocks of mammals also regulates glucose production in the liver and that altering the levels of this protein can improve the health of diabetic mice.
Biochemistry
Sep 19, 2010
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Making bees less busy: Social environment changes internal clocks
Honey bees removed from their usual roles in the hive quickly and drastically changed their biological rhythms, according to a study in the Sept. 15 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. The changes were evident in both the ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 14, 2010
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Blue whales have perfect pitch
Blue whales have the remarkable ability to synchronize the pitch of their songs so that they all hit the exact same note, according to a new study. Professor of Physics Roger Bland recorded thousands of whale songs off the ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 10, 2010
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Dramatic climate change is unpredictable
The fear that global temperature can change very quickly and cause dramatic climate changes that may have a disastrous impact on many countries and populations is great around the world. But what causes climate change and ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 30, 2010
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Explained: the Doppler effect (w/ Video)
Many students learn about the Doppler effect in physics class, typically as part of a discussion of why the pitch of a siren is higher as an ambulance approaches and then lower as the ambulance passes by. The effect is useful ...
General Physics
Aug 3, 2010
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Blue whales align the pitch of their songs with extreme accuracy, study finds
Blue whales are able to synchronize the pitch of their calls with an extremely high level of accuracy, and a very slim margin of error from call to call, according to a new study of the blue whale population in the eastern ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 2, 2010
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Astronomers Find Planets in Unusually Intimate Dance around Dying Star
Hundreds of extrasolar planets have been found over the past decade and a half, most of them solitary worlds orbiting their parent star in seeming isolation. With further observation, however, one in three of these systems ...
Astronomy
Jul 29, 2010
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