Sulfur In Just One Hair Could Blow A Terrorist??™s Alibi
A team of Spanish and British scientists has developed a "laser ablation" method that makes it possible to detect variations in the sulfur isotopes of a single hair over time. This information shows up changes in a person's eating habits and their...
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General Science | Thursday May 28
Dementia Drugs May Put Some Patients At Risk
Effects associated with several commonly-prescribed dementia drugs may be putting elderly people at risk, says a geriatrics professor.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/kB1G7Q4ikzU" height="1" width="1"/
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General Science | Thursday May 28
Brain Activation Can Predict Strategies People Use To Make Risky Decisions
Watching people's brains in real time as they handle a set of decision-making problems can reveal how different each person's strategy can be, according to neuroscientists.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/rKPwJ6GSMRQ" height="1"...
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General Science | Thursday May 28
What Goes Down, Must Come Up: Earth's Leaky Mantle
A conundrum has long vexed geoscientists: How to reconcile convection of the Earth's mantle with observations of ancient noble gases in volcanic rocks. Solving the problem requires that the recycling of tectonic plates into the Earth's lower mantle is...
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General Science | Thursday May 28
Capturing The Birth Of A Synapse: Mechanism Locking Two Neurons Found
Researchers have identified the locking mechanism that allows some neurons to form synapses to pass along essential information. Mutations of genes that produce a critical cell-adhesion molecule involved in the work were previously linked to autism.img...
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General Science | Thursday May 28
DNA Compounds Could Help Treat Lupus
Scientists have generated DNA-like compounds that effectively inhibit the cells responsible for the most common and serious form of lupus. The findings could eventually lead to new treatments for this difficult disease, which affects up to one million...
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General Science | Thursday May 28
Melting Greenland Ice Sheets May Threaten Northeast United States, Canada
A melting of the Greenland ice sheet this century may drive more water than previously thought toward the already threatened coastlines of New York, Boston, Halifax, and other cities in the northeastern United States and in Canada, according to new...
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General Science | Thursday May 28
Following A Healthy Lifestyle Is On Decline In U.S.
Despite the well-known benefits of having a lifestyle that includes physical activity, eating a diet high in fruits and vegetables, maintaining a healthy weight, moderate alcohol use and not smoking, only a small proportion of adults follow this...
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General Science | Thursday May 28
Geographic Isolation Drives Evolution Of Hot Springs Microbe
Sulfolobus islandicus, a microbe that can live in boiling acid, is offering up its secrets to researchers hardy enough to capture it from the volcanic hot springs where it thrives. In a new study, researchers report that populations of S. islandicus...
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General Science | Thursday May 28
Pediatrician Creates Easier Way To Identify Kids' High Blood Pressure
Pediatricians now have a new and simple way to diagnose a serious problem facing our nation's children. Nearly 75 percent of cases of hypertension and 90 percent of cases of prehypertension in children and adolescents go undiagnosed. Researchers hope a...
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General Science | Thursday May 28
Europe's Gravity Mission GOCE Achieves Drag-free Perfection
ESA's gravity mission GOCE has achieved a first in the history of satellite technology. The sophisticated electric propulsion system has shown that it is able to keep the satellite completely free from drag as it cuts through the remnants of Earth's...
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General Science | Thursday May 28
Technique Eradicates Problems In Most Patients With Barrett's Esophagus
A procedure that uses heat generated by radio waves to treat Barrett's esophagus, a condition caused by acid reflux (severe heartburn), can eliminate signs of the potentially cancer-causing disorder and reduce the risk that the disease will progress....
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General Science | Thursday May 28
Clearest Images Of Starburst Galaxies Reveal New Picture Of Early Universe
Astronomers and physicists built an innovative new telescope called BLAST (Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Sub-millimeter Telescope) and launched it to the edge of the atmosphere, where it discovered previously unidentified dust-obscured, star-forming...
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General Science | Thursday May 28
Supermarket Discounts Promote Unhealthy Choices, New Zealand Study Finds
Supermarket shoppers may be encouraged to buy sugar-filled, calorie-rich drinks by discounts and promotions, according to New Zealand research. A study has found healthy drinks were less likely to be discounted in supermarkets. And the amount of the...
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General Science | Thursday May 28
Investigating The Development Of Mechanosensitivity
Researchers have gained crucial insight into how mechanosensitivity arises. By measuring electrical impulses in the sensory neurons of mice, neurobiologists and pain researchers were able to directly elucidate, for the first time, the emergence of...
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General Science | Thursday May 28
Genetic Cause For Primary Biliary Cirrhosis Identified
Researchers have discovered a novel molecular path that predisposes patients to develop primary biliary cirrhosis, a disease that mainly affects women and slowly destroys their livers. Primary biliary cirrhosis has no known cause.img...
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General Science | Thursday May 28
Shellfish Face An Uncertain Future In High Carbon Dioxide World
Overfishing and disease have decimated shellfish populations in many of the world's temperate estuarine and coastal ecosystems. Scientists have now discovered another serious threat to these valuable filter feeders -- rising levels of atmospheric...
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General Science | Thursday May 28
World's Highest-resolution Commercial Satellite
Since the early 1960s, super powerful spy satellites have been the stuff of the military and intelligence communities. Now two U.S. companies have launched commercial imaging satellites that offer the same sort of space-based images of the Earth to the...
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General Science | Wednesday May 27
Discovery Of Faulty Genes Could Reveal Risk Of Bone Disease
The discovery of faulty genes by researchers in England could help people with Paget's disease, a painful bone condition. Three genes have been found to be associated with the disease which, if detected early enough in people, could hasten diagnosis...
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General Science | Wednesday May 27
Less-toxic Drug Prolongs Survival In Metastatic Breast Cancer
A less toxic, solvent-free chemotherapy drug more effectively prevents the progression of metastatic breast cancer and has fewer side effects than a commonly used solvent-based drug. Abraxane prolonged progression-free survival by almost seven months...
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General Science | Wednesday May 27
More Genetic Differences Between Mice And Humans Than Previously Thought
A new article explores exactly what distinguishes our genome from that of the lab mouse. In the first comprehensive comparison between the genes of mice and humans, scientists reveal that there are more genetic differences between the two species than...
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General Science | Wednesday May 27
Fear of Flying
Personally, I’ve never had a problem with a fear of flying, a lot of people suffer from this often debilitating phobia though despite reassurances about road death statistics being much worse than air crashes. That said perhaps there is one...
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General Science | Wednesday May 27
Half Of Your Friends Lost In Seven Years, Social Network Study Finds
Had a good chat with someone recently? Has a good friend just helped you to do up your home? Then you will be lucky if that person still does that in seven years time. Sociologist Gerald Mollenhorst investigated how the context in which we meet people...
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General Science | Wednesday May 27
Flexible Monitors For Future Battlefields
Among the technological demands of an increasingly sophisticated U.S. military force is the need for futuristic computer displays. While existing flat-panel, light-emitting diodes (LED) displays are good for most commercial purposes, they may not be...
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General Science | Wednesday May 27
New Mouse Model Provides Insight Into Genetic Neurological Disorders
Neurosensory diseases are difficult to model in mice because their symptoms are complex and diverse. The genetic causes identified are often lethal when transferred to a mouse. The lack of animal models slows progress in understanding and treating the...
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General Science | Wednesday May 27
High Torque Electric Motor Being Tested
A lightweight electric motor is set to power a new four-seat coup?©, with track tests scheduled for the end of 2009.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/mjur9KeYxb8" height="1" width="1"/
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General Science | Wednesday May 27
Premature Ejaculation May Be A Genetic Disorder
Premature ejaculation can be embarrassing, but a new study suggests that it might be a genetic disorder.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/rGverjzUZTU" height="1" width="1"/
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General Science | Wednesday May 27
Lessons From The Vaccine-autism Wars
Researchers have investigated why the debunked vaccine-autism theory won't go away. Medical anthropologists, science historians, vaccine experts, social scientists, and pediatricians explore the factors keeping the dangerous notion alive -- and its...
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General Science | Wednesday May 27
World's Highest-resolution Projector
If one were to stack 16 of the world's best high-definition projectors side-by-side (and on top of each other), the combined image projected would contain 33 megapixels. This is the resolution achieved by the world's highest-resolution projector, just...
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General Science | Wednesday May 27
In-depth Look At Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine Life, Ecosystems
A new report on the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands provides the sharpest picture yet of the region's marine life and ecosystems. The report examines the geographic distribution of the island chain's marine life and habitats, and the conditions that...
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General Science | Wednesday May 27
Green Tea Extract Shows Promise In Leukemia Trials
Researchers are reporting positive results in early leukemia clinical trials using the chemical epigallocatechin gallate, an active ingredient in green tea.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/GIkfjyEGqn8" height="1" width="1"/
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General Science | Wednesday May 27
New Extinct Lemur Species Discovered In Madagascar
A third species of an extinct group of large lemurs has just been uncovered in the northwest of Madagascar. Dubbed Palaeopropithecus kelyus, this new specimen is smaller than the two species of these 'large sloth lemurs' already known and its diet made...
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General Science | Wednesday May 27
Vehicles That Drive Themselves
The thought of a car or truck that can drive itself is at once both exciting and frightening. Autonomous vehicle navigation, as the technology is known, may make life more convenient if it allows people to kick back and enjoy a good book or movie while...
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General Science | Wednesday May 27
Watermelons Tapped For Ethanol
With their sweet, refreshing juices and succulent interior, watermelons are a favorite summertime treat, especially around July 4th. But now this Independence Day favorite could become even more of a patriotic commodity. The simple sugars in watermelon...
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General Science | Wednesday May 27
Healing With Light? Optical Technology Controls Living Cells
Star Trek scanners that fix injuries with beams of light may not be science fiction after all. A new optical technology that lines up living cells and controls their movements has opened the door to better artificial tissues and wounds that heal faster...
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General Science | Wednesday May 27
Climate Change Threatens Endangered Honeycreeper Birds of Hawaii
As climate change causes temperatures to increase in Hawaii's mountains, deadly non-native bird diseases will likely also creep up the mountains, invading most of the last disease-free refuges for honeycreepers -- a group of endangered and remarkable...
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General Science | Wednesday May 27
Viruses Are Sneakier Than We Thought
Of central importance for viruses is the ability to commandeer cellular gene expression machinery. Several human herpes viruses put the breaks on normal cellular gene expression to divert the associated enzymes and resources towards their own viral...
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General Science | Wednesday May 27
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