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Spacecraft controllers have just awoken Rosetta from hibernation to prepare for its encounter with asteroid (2867) Steins on 5 September. ESA’s comet chaser will study the relatively rare asteroid ... Read more..Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
Cuttlefish peer out of clear eggs for first lessons in dinner The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
A unique gene therapy technique could make immune cells resistant to HIV The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
Microdiamonds may hold signs of ancient life on Earth The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
Message from a craft at the solar system's final frontier holds surprises. The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
Turns out, mites are more than parasites for their host wasps, who use them as bodyguards. The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
Subtle differences in the wood of modern violins and classics may be key to sound quality The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
A comprehensive study quantifies a dramatic increase in survival chances over the past decade The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
Gas prices may need to climb more before most of us do the right thing. The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
Chameleon holds record for shortest life The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
Plant leaf plumbing designed to move water fast The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
New look suggests brain's anatomy determines its activity The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
People may perceive a natural order to events that helps to organize language The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins have a profound effect on an elite group of cells known as glial progenitor cells that are important to brain health as we age, scientists ... Read more..Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
A new form of energy-transfer processes, reported today in Nature may have implications for the study of reactions going on in the atmosphere, and even for those occurring in the ... Read more..Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
An international research team has published the first clear example of how climate extremes can create conditions in which diseases that are normally tolerated singly may converge and bring about ... Read more..Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
More evidence for the beneficial effect of green tea on risk factors for heart disease has emerged in a new study reported in the latest issue of European Journal of ... Read more..Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Learn about an upcoming Canoe Journey to study water resources in the Salish Sea, the development of a volcano early warning system in Chile, the slow recovery of California sea ... Read more..Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Researchers from the University of Adelaide, Australia, have launched the largest study of its kind in the world in a bid to better understand the possible genetic causes of cerebral ... Read more..Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
URI researcher aims to identify a salt tolerance limit for native and ornamental turf grasses in hopes of finding a variety that can be used along highways without being killed ... Read more..Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Consistently maintaining certain blood levels of markers of bone metabolism and disease can prolong the lives of patients on hemodialysis, according to a study appearing in the September 2008 issue ... Read more..Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Scientists from Hungary, Germany and the UK have discovered that our own body not only makes chemical compounds similar to the active ingredient in marijuana, but these play an ... Read more..Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Massachusetts General Hospital investigators have shown that an MGH-developed, microchip-based device that detects and analyzes tumor cells in the bloodstream can be used to determine the genetic signature of ... Read more..Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Compact, bedside brain-activity monitors detected most seizures in at-risk infants, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis showed. That means the compact units could assist clinicians in ... Read more..Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Was the course of life on the planet altered 12,900 years ago by a giant comet exploding over Canada? New evidence found by UC assistant professor of anthropology Ken Tankersley ... Read more..Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Scientists from the Institute for Bioinformatics and Systemic Biology of the Helmholtz Zentrum München and the faculty for biology of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität have shown that biological indicators for diseases caused ... Read more..Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
New research findings published online in the FASEB Journal provide more evidence that if we get smart about what we eat, our intelligence can improve. According to MIT scientists, dietary ... Read more..Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Researchers have shown that they can put mouse embryonic stem cells to work building the heart, potentially moving medicine a significant step closer to a new generation of heart disease ... Read more..Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
When an atom collides with a molecule, traditional wisdom said the atom had to strike one end of the molecule hard to deliver energy to it. People thought a glancing ... Read more..Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
An instrument aboard NASA's STEREO spacecraft unexpectedly detected particles from the edge of the solar system last year, allowing UC Berkeley scientists to map for the first time the energized ... Read more..Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
A Florida State University faculty member who uses computational techniques to evaluate a new class of cancer-killing drugs is attracting worldwide attention from other researchers. The rest of the article can ... Read more..Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Thyroid cancer that has spread to distant sites has a poor prognosis, but an experimental drug that inhibits tumor blood vessel formation can slow disease progression in some patients, a ... Read more..Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
As the specter of a worldwide outbreak of avian or "bird flu" lingers, health officials recognize that new drugs are desperately needed since some strains of the virus already have ... Read more..Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Ophthalmologists continue to develop treatments to help the more than three million Americans with glaucoma. The July issue of Ophthalmology includes a large, national study of outcomes of incisional surgeries, ... Read more..Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Measuring calcium deposits in the heart's arteries can help predict overall death risk in American adults, even when they are elderly, according to a new study published in the July ... Read more..Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Researchers at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine have performed the first computational analysis of transient interactions between proteins in order to reveal what determines their recognition as ideal partners ... Read more..Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
World Wildlife Fund is alarmed by the dramatic decline of at least 30 percent in the Bengal tiger population of Suklaphanta Wildlife Reserve in Nepal, once a refuge that boasted ... Read more..Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Using a Blue Gene supercomputer, scientists of ETH Zurich and the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory demonstrated the most extensive simulation yet of actual human bone structure. This achievement may lead ... Read more..Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Texas A&M University researchers have developed a computational tool that will help scientists more accurately study complex units of clustered genes, called operons, in bacteria. The rest of the article can ... Read more..Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Delaying childbirth has substantially contributed to recent rises in Caesarean section rates, according to a paper published this week by scientists at Cambridge University. They found that advancing age was ... Read more..Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Imagine a business executive who thinks: "I know that this new policy will harm the environment, but I don't care at all about that -- I just want to increase ... Read more..Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Monash University scientists have started clinical trials to find a successful vaccine against footrot in sheep. The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
When chemists want to produce a lot of a substance -- such as a newly designed drug -- they often turn to catalysts, molecules that speed chemical reactions. Many jobs ... Read more..Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Now that Duke University Medical Center scientists have figured out how the virus that causes cold sores hides out, they may have a way to wake it up and kill ... Read more..Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
In the continuing effort to tap the vast, unexplored reaches of the earth's microbial and plant domains for bioenergy and environmental applications, the DOE Joint Genome Institute has announced its ... Read more..Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Thanks to salt and hot chili peppers, researchers have found a calculus-computing center that tells a roundworm to go forward toward dinner or turn to broaden the search. It's a ... Read more..Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Patients harboring methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus for long periods of time continue to be at increased risk of MRSA infection and death, according to a new study in the July 15 ... Read more..Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Extinction risks for natural populations of endangered species are likely being underestimated by as much as 100-fold because of a mathematical "misdiagnosis," according to a new study led by a ... Read more..Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Researchers at North Carolina State University have found that quantum dot nanoparticles can penetrate the skin if there is an abrasion, providing insight into potential workplace concerns for healthcare workers ... Read more..Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
A group of undergraduate students from the University of California San Diego have forged a new area of bioinformatics that may improve genomic and proteomic annotations and unlock a collection ... Read more..