Bee-killing Parasite Genome Sequenced
Scientists have sequenced the genome of a parasite that can kill honey bees. Nosema ceranae is one of many pathogens suspected of contributing to the current bee population decline, termed colony collapse disorder.img...
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General Science | Friday Jun 5
Drug's Epilepsy-prevention Effect May Be Widely Applicable
A drug with potential to prevent epilepsy caused by a genetic condition may also help prevent more common forms of epilepsy caused by brain injury.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/q5vevFb4IGg" height="1" width="1"/
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General Science | Friday Jun 5
New, Light-driven Nanomotor Is Simpler, More Promising, Scientists Say
Sunflowers track the sun as it moves from east to west. But people usually have to convert sunlight into electricity or heat to put its power to use. Now, a team of chemists is the latest to report a new mechanism to transform light straight into...
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General Science | Friday Jun 5
Easily Grossed Out? You Might Be A Conservative!
Are you someone who squirms when confronted with slime, shudders at stickiness or gets grossed out by gore? If so, you might be politically conservative, according to two new studies.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/4kfxoAAkw7s"...
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General Science | Friday Jun 5
Benefit To Women Not Enough To Sway Men To Get HPV Vaccine
Informing men that a new vaccine to prevent human papillomavirus (HPV) would also help protect their female partners against developing cervical cancer from the sexually transmitted infection did not increase their interest in getting the vaccine,...
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General Science | Friday Jun 5
Bacteria From The Deep Can Clean Up Heavy Metals
A novel species of bacteria, Brachybacterium strain Mn32A, isolated from Pacific Ocean sediments, could provide a powerful clean-up tool for heavy metal pollution. Scientists report that the bacterium was highly effective in oxidizing manganese and...
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General Science | Friday Jun 5
Carbon Payments Help Protect Threatened Tropical Mammals
A new report provides compelling evidence that paying to conserve billions of tons of carbon stored in tropical forests could also protect orangutans, pygmy elephants, and other wildlife at risk of extinction. The study is one of the first to offer...
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General Science | Friday Jun 5
Cigarette Smoking Does Not Affect Everyone In Same Way
An autoimmune mechanism, compounded by genetic predisposition in COPD, can explain the progression of the disease in some smokers and the evasion in others.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/kEjNJ7OAZNQ" height="1" width="1"/
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General Science | Friday Jun 5
Can Death be Sustainable?
A case study
Few people like to dwell on the subject of death, but it’s up there alongside taxes with life’s inevitabilities. But, consider it we must, for the sake of the environment.
At some point in our primordial past the dead were...
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General Science | Friday Jun 5
Beating Bacteria to Prevent Post-LASIK Infections
Since bacteria mutate frequently and become resistant to new antibiotics, ophthalmic researchers are on a continuous quest to identify the worst offenders and best treatments. Infections occur rarely in LASIK patients, but data show rates are slowly...
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General Science | Friday Jun 5
Needle Biopsies Safe In 'Eloquent' Areas Of Brain, Study Suggests
Scientists have concluded that performing a stereotactic needle biopsy in an area of the brain associated with language or other important functions carries no greater risk than a similar biopsy in a less critical area of the brain.img...
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General Science | Friday Jun 5
Illegal Fishing Harming Present And Future New England Groundfish Fisheries
Weak enforcement combined with fishermen facing serious economic hardships are leading to widespread violations of fisheries regulations along the Northeastern United States coast. This pattern of noncompliance threatens the success of new fisheries...
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General Science | Friday Jun 5
Promising Antimicrobial Attacks Virus, Stimulates Immune System
A promising antimicrobial agent already known to kill bacteria can also kill viruses and stimulate the innate immune system, according to researchers.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/Ld9sgKfWwPI" height="1" width="1"/
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General Science | Friday Jun 5
Sleuths Follow Lung Stem Cells For Generations To Shed Light On Healing
More than one kind of stem cell is required to support the upkeep and repair of the lungs, according to a new study. Scientists painstakingly followed and counted genetically labeled cells in the mouse lung for over a year, under differing conditions,...
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General Science | Friday Jun 5
Over 60 Percent Of All US Bankruptcies Attributable To Medical Problems
Over 60 percent of all bankruptcies in the United States in 2007 were driven by medical incidents. The results of the first-ever national random-sample survey of bankruptcy filers shows that illnesses and medical bills contribute to a large and...
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General Science | Friday Jun 5
How Humans Have Disrupted The Nitrogen Cycle
Researchers have found a new proxy to measure the impact of fossil fuel emissions on the global nitrogen cycle. The scientists use nitrogen isotopes found in a Greenland ice core to link nitrates to the rise in nitric oxides since the industrial...
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General Science | Friday Jun 5
Early Childhood Conditions That Lead To Adult Health Disparities Identified
The origins of many adult diseases can be traced to early negative experiences associated with social class and other markers of disadvantage. Confronting the causes of adversity before and shortly after birth may be a promising way to improve adult...
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General Science | Friday Jun 5
Safe, Efficient Routes For Dangerous Goods
A new routing and monitoring system developed by European researchers for trucks carrying dangerous goods promises to make Europe??™s roads safer while saving haulers time and money.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/fbgk_2dTrxI"...
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General Science | Friday Jun 5
Goal: Developing The Best Atomic Clock In The World
They are masters at working with light: the scientists at the newly founded QUEST Institute in Germany. And they want to work on some of the most exciting questions relating to physics today: on unimaginably precise methods of measurement for observing...
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General Science | Friday Jun 5
Cost-effective Measures Could Stop Child Pneumonia Deaths
Implementing measures to improve nutrition, indoor air pollution, immunization coverage and the management of pneumonia cases could be cost-effective and significantly reduce child mortality from pneumonia, according to a new study. Researchers found...
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General Science | Friday Jun 5
High Population Density Triggers Cultural Explosions
Increasing population density, rather than boosts in human brain power, appears to have catalyzed the emergence of modern human behavior, according to a new study. High population density leads to greater exchange of ideas and skills and prevents the...
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General Science | Friday Jun 5
'Warrior Gene' Linked To Gang Membership, Weapon Use
Boys who carry a particular variation of the gene Monoamine oxidase A (MAOA), sometimes called the "warrior gene," are more likely not only to join gangs but also to be among the most violent members and to use weapons, according to a new study that is...
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General Science | Friday Jun 5
???Colossal??™ Magnetic Effect Under Pressure
Millions of people today carry around pocket-sized music players capable of holding thousands of songs, thanks to the discovery 20 years ago of a phenomenon known as the "giant magnetoresistance effect," which made it possible to pack more data onto...
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General Science | Friday Jun 5
Asthma Rates And Where You Live
A new study shows how neighborhood characteristics play a significant role in childhood asthma.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/eanhr2KZ4sw" height="1" width="1"/
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General Science | Friday Jun 5
New Imaging Technique: Toward Spinal Cord Regeneration?
Scientists have revealed the interaction between the regrowth of axons inside the spinal cord and the development of blood vessels in cases of spinal cord injury in mice. The result was obtained using a promising combination of imaging techniques, and...
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General Science | Friday Jun 5
New Class Of Dim Supernovae
The colossal stellar explosions called supernovae come in many kinds and flavors. Some of them are produced when a massive star reaches the end of its life in a sudden gravitational collapse. Astronomers have just found one of these explosions that...
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General Science | Friday Jun 5
Geography And History Shape Genetic Differences In Humans
New research indicates that natural selection may shape the human genome much more slowly than previously thought. Other factors -- the movements of humans within and among continents, the expansions and contractions of populations, and the vagaries of...
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General Science | Friday Jun 5
Molecular Complex Essential For Vision Identified In Fungi
Researchers have identified one of the protein components of a molecular complex that allows light reception in a laboratory fungus.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/r737eLK8CMw" height="1" width="1"/
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General Science | Thursday Jun 4
Bacteria And Algae Act As Biocatalysts For Deep-sea Raw Material Deposition
The sea floor is strewn with raw materials that could be very important in the future: Manganese and iron, but also rarer and more precious elements such as cobalt, copper, zinc and nickel, are present in great quantities in the form of deep-sea...
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General Science | Thursday Jun 4
Physicists Demonstrate Quantum Entanglement In Mechanical System
Physicists have demonstrated entanglement -- a phenomenon peculiar to the atomic-scale quantum world -- in a mechanical system similar to those in the macroscopic everyday world. The work extends the boundaries of the arena where quantum behavior can...
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General Science | Thursday Jun 4
Discoveries Shed New Light On How The Brain Processes What The Eye Sees
Researchers have identified the need to develop a new framework for understanding "perceptual stability" and how we see the world with their discovery that visual input obtained during eye movements is being processed by the brain but blocked from...
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