Meditation May Increase Gray Matter
Researchers report that certain regions of the brain in long-term meditators were larger than non-meditators. Specifically, meditators showed significantly larger volumes of the hippocampus, and within the orbito-frontal cortex, thalamus and inferior...
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General Science | Wednesday May 13
Molecular Structure Could Help Explain Albinism, Melanoma
Scientists have long known that members of the phenoloxidase family are involved in skin and hair coloring. When they are mutated, they can cause albinism. Produced over abundantly, they are associated with melanoma. Researchers can now explain how...
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General Science | Wednesday May 13
Predators Ignore Peculiar Prey, Bird And Salamander Study Finds
Rare traits persist in a population because predators detect common forms of prey more easily. Researchers have found that birds will target salamanders that look like the majority -- even reversing their behavior in response to alterations in the...
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General Science | Wednesday May 13
Feeling Cramped While Shopping? Variety Provides Relief
When consumers find themselves in stores with narrow aisles, they react in a surprising way: they seek variety. According to a new study, confined spaces might help people diversify their choices.img...
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General Science | Wednesday May 13
Why Silkworms Find Mulberries Attractive
Biologists have found the source of silkworms' attraction to mulberry leaves, their primary food source. A jasmine-scented chemical emitted in small quantities by the leaves triggers a single, highly tuned olfactory receptor in the silkworms' antennae,...
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General Science | Wednesday May 13
Climate Change Driving Michigan Mammals North
Some Michigan mammal species are rapidly expanding their ranges northward, apparently in response to climate change, a new study shows. In the process, these historically southern species are replacing their northern counterparts.img...
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General Science | Wednesday May 13
Analysis Of Flu Virus Could Lead To Better Vaccines
Scientists may have found a better way to make a vaccine against the flu virus. Though theoretical, the work points to the critical importance of what has been a poorly appreciated aspect of the interaction between a virus and those naturally produced...
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General Science | Wednesday May 13
Race To Preserve The World??™s Oldest Submerged Town: Pavlopetri, Greece
The oldest submerged town in the world is about to give up its secrets -- with the help of equipment that could revolutionize underwater archaeology. The ancient town of Pavlopetri lies in three to four meters of water just off the coast of southern...
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General Science | Wednesday May 13
Adults Aren't Active Enough, 22-year Study Finds
A new study has sounded the alarm that adults are inactive over their lifespan and don't exercise enough during their leisure time.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/3vKecbYrOEg" height="1" width="1"/
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General Science | Wednesday May 13
New Method Used To Detect Antibiotics In Honey
Chemists in Spain have developed a method to simultaneously detect the presence of 17 antibiotics in honey within less than 10 minutes. The researchers have shown that traces of antibiotics used to treat diseases among bees can be found in some...
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General Science | Wednesday May 13
Insect Gene Expression Responds To Diet
Cabbage looper caterpillars are able to alter the expression of genes associated with metabolism, homeostasis and immunity in response to feeding on plants carrying bacteria. Research published in Frontiers in Zoology has shown that, as well as...
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General Science | Wednesday May 13
DNA Analysis Reveals The Prime Stock Of Indonesian Cattle
DNA analysis shows that Indonesian zebu cattle have a unique origin with banteng (Bos javanicus) as part of their ancestry. Throughout the world, cattle inhabit a range of climatically diverse environments: common taurine cattle, for example, are kept...
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General Science | Wednesday May 13
Gene In Breast Cancer Pathway Identified
Scientists have discovered how a gene crucial in triggering the spread of breast cancer is turned on and off. The findings could help predict whether breast tumors will metastasize and also reveal potential drug targets for preventing metastasis.img...
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General Science | Wednesday May 13
Chemists Discover Rare Rydberg Molecule With 'New' Type Of Bonding
A newly discovered rare "Rydberg" molecule has upheld the scientific theory predicting the molecule existed. Chemists used a gas of rubidium atoms cooled to a temperature of 3 millionths of a degree above absolute zero to produce the molecule. The...
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General Science | Wednesday May 13
Fungi Pathogenic To Insects Are New Tool In Fight Against Chagas Disease
Entomopathogenic fungi may be a safe and efficient means of controlling Triatoma infestans, the bug that helps spread Chagas disease, according to new research conducted in Argentina. The study shows the success of the fungi to kill bugs resistant to...
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General Science | Tuesday May 12
Early Word Recognition Is Key To Lifelong Reading Skills Says New Study
Psychologists help solve 20-year old reading riddle. Children??™s early reading experience is critical to the development of their lifelong reading skills a new study.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/7tmh-TlHt9o" height="1"...
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General Science | Tuesday May 12
Warriors Do Not Always Get The Girl
Aggressive, vengeful behavior of individuals in some South American groups has been considered the means for men to obtain more wives and more children, but anthropologists working in Ecuador among the Waorani show that sometimes the macho guy does not...
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General Science | Tuesday May 12
New Tag Could Enable More Detailed Structural Studies Of Mammalian Proteins
To say our genes are resourceful is a gross understatement. Through ingenious combinations of a paltry 20 amino acids, the basic building blocks of life, genes engineer all of the tissues and organs that are the marvel of our working bodies.img...
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General Science | Tuesday May 12
X-rays Help Predict Permanent Bone Damage From Bisphosphonates
Bisphosphonates have been found to place people at risk for developing osteonecrosis of the jaws (a rotting of the jaw bones). Dentists, as well as oncologists, are now using X-rays to detect "ghost sockets" in patients that take these drugs and when...
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General Science | Tuesday May 12
How Fit Are You? Lactate Test Made Easy
The lactate value indicates levels of fitness. At present, athletes have to visit a doctor to have it measured. A new analytical device will make things easier in future: athletes can wear it and check their lactate readings during training.img...
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General Science | Tuesday May 12
Driving To Work Increases Risk Of Heart Attack, Swedish Study Finds
People who drive to work run a considerably greater risk of having a heart attack than those who are physically active on the way to work.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/VYqozqrtdBg" height="1" width="1"/
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General Science | Tuesday May 12
Mathematical Advances Strengthen IT Security
Rapidly rising cyber crime and the growing prospect of the Internet being used as a medium for terrorist attacks pose a major challenge for IT security. Cryptography is central to this challenge, since it underpins privacy, confidentiality, and...
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General Science | Tuesday May 12
More Pills, Less Quality Of Life For Kidney Patients
The more pills a dialysis patients takes, the worse their health-related quality of life, according to a new study. The findings indicate that increasing the number of medications to control patients' disease may interfere with their ability to enjoy...
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General Science | Tuesday May 12
Mini Helicopters As Disaster Helpers
In the aftermath of an earthquake or chemical incident, every minute counts: the rescue team has to quickly gain an overview. Mini helicopters can help in future, investigating collapsed buildings from the inside, singly or as a swarm.img...
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General Science | Tuesday May 12
Teenagers Are Becoming Increasingly Logical, Swedish Study Finds
The capacity of teenagers for logic has been steadily increasing during the last 50 years, according to a large study of 13-year-olds in Sweden since the early 1960s.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/Ttl6j2wmSDE" height="1"...
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General Science | Tuesday May 12
High-pressure Compound Could Be Key To Hydrogen-powered Vehicles
A recently discovered hydrogen-rich compound may help overcome one of the biggest hurdles to using hydrogen for fuel -- namely, how do you stuff enough hydrogen into a volume small enough to be practical for powering a car? The newly discovered...
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General Science | Tuesday May 12
Women Have A More Powerful Immune System Than Men, Study Shows
Women have a more powerful immune system than men, according to a new study. In fact, the production of estrogen by females could have a beneficial effect on the innate inflammatory response against bacterial pathogens.img...
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General Science | Tuesday May 12
Changes In The Sun Are Not Causing Global Warming, New Study Shows
With the US Congress beginning to consider regulations on greenhouse gases, a troubling hypothesis about how the sun may impact global warming is finally laid to rest.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/Ov5JOvSnP6Q" height="1"...
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General Science | Tuesday May 12
Rules Proposed To Save The World's Coral Reefs
Scientists have proposed a set of basic rules to help save the world's imperiled coral reefs from ultimate destruction. "The catastrophic decline in the world's coral reefs demands urgent management responses on two fronts," say the researchers.img...
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General Science | Tuesday May 12
Gene May 'Bypass' Disease-linked Mitochondrial Defects
By lending them a gene normally reserved for other classes of animals, researchers have shown they can rescue flies from their Parkinson's-like symptoms, including movement defects and excess free radicals produced in power-generating cellular...
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General Science | Tuesday May 12
How Smallpox May Derail Human Immune System
Scientists describe how they looked at all of the proteins produced by the smallpox virus in concert with human proteins, and discovered one particular interaction that disables one of the body's first responders to injury -- inflammation.img...
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General Science | Tuesday May 12
Ultra-dense Deuterium May Be Nuclear Fuel Of The Future
A material that is a hundred thousand times heavier than water and more dense than the core of the Sun is being produced at a university. The scientists working with this material are aiming for an energy process that is both more sustainable and less...
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General Science | Tuesday May 12
Sewage Treatment In The East May Be Enough To Reduce Baltic Algal Blooms
Upgrading sewage treatment in the southeastern Baltic Sea states to Swedish standards may suffice to reduce algal blooms in the Baltic to levels of the 1950s.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/lokO52Awp4E" height="1" width="1"/
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General Science | Tuesday May 12
Disease Threatens Washington State Sea Otters
Many of Washington State's sea otters are exposed to the same pathogens responsible for causing disease in marine mammal populations in other parts of the country, according to a new study.img...
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General Science | Tuesday May 12
Older People Need More Sun, Expert Urges
Spending more time in the sunshine could help older people to reduce their risk of developing heart disease and diabetes. Exposure to sunlight stimulates vitamin D in the skin and older people are more likely to have a vitamin D deficiency due to the...
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General Science | Tuesday May 12
Brain's Problem-solving Function At Work When We Daydream
Our brains are much more active when we daydream than previously thought. Activity in numerous brain regions increases when our minds wander, according to new research. Psychologists found that brain areas associated with complex problem-solving --...
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General Science | Tuesday May 12
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