Ultracool Stars Take 'Wild Rides' Around, Outside The Milky Way
Astronomers have found that stars of a recently discovered type, dubbed ultracool subdwarfs, take some pretty wild rides as they orbit around the Milky Way, following paths that are very different from those of typical stars. One of them may actually...
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General Science | Thursday Jun 11
Visual System That Detects Movement, Colors And Textures
Researchers in Spain, basing their work on American models, have added a color -- and light-sensitive device to an artificial retina. The new device can detect and locate moving objects in a real-time setting.img...
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General Science | Thursday Jun 11
Study Redefines Roles Of Alcohol, Smoking In Risk For Pancreatitis
Although alcohol consumption is known to be associated with chronic pancreatitis, new evidence indicates that a threshold of five or more drinks per day is required to significantly raise risk; however, most patients with chronic pancreatitis do not...
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General Science | Thursday Jun 11
Oxygen Plus MRI Might Help Determine Cancer Therapy Success
A simple magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) test involving breathing oxygen might help oncologists determine the best treatment for some cancer patients.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/sT7h9B67kpo" height="1" width="1"/
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General Science | Thursday Jun 11
Sleep May Be Important In Regulating Emotional Responses
Sleep selectively preservers memories that are emotionally salient and relevant to future goals when sleep follows soon after learning. Effects persist for as long as four months after the memory is created.img...
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General Science | Thursday Jun 11
Snoring Pregnant Women At Higher Risk For Gestational Diabetes
If you are pregnant and your mate complains your frequent snoring is rattling the bedroom windows, you may have bigger problems than an annoyed, sleep-deprived partner. A new study has found that women who reported frequent snoring during their...
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General Science | Thursday Jun 11
New Tidal Debris Discovered From Colliding Galaxies
Astronomers have discovered new tidal debris stripped away from colliding galaxies. New debris images are of special interest since they show the full history of galaxy collisions and resultant starburst activities, which are important in 'growing'...
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General Science | Thursday Jun 11
Simulation Helps Students Learn Dental Implant Procedures
A realistic computer game will soon be used to help dental students worldwide learn and reinforce dental implant procedures.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/lY0ChOt2Zy4" height="1" width="1"/
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General Science | Thursday Jun 11
Hidden Genitalia In Female Water Striders Makes Males 'Sing'
Biologists report that by evolving a morphological shield to protect their genitalia from males' forceful copulatory attempts, females of an Asian species of water strider seem to "win" the evolutionary arms race between the sexes. Instead, females...
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General Science | Thursday Jun 11
Australia's Climate: Drought And Flooding In Annual Rings Of Tropical Trees
Annual rings are acclaimed in representing natural climate archives. For the temperate latitudes it is known that the growth of these annual rings depend mainly on temperature and precipitation. In the tropics, however, with only slight seasonal...
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General Science | Thursday Jun 11
Caribou/reindeer Numbers Show Dramatic Decline
Caribou and reindeer numbers worldwide have plunged almost 60 percent in the last three decades. The dramatic revelation came out of the first ever comprehensive census analysis of this iconic species.img...
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General Science | Thursday Jun 11
Natural Hormone May Protect Muscle From Atrophy
Researchers have found a potential new treatment for the common problem of muscle atrophy.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/56NUutPAGkQ" height="1" width="1"/
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General Science | Thursday Jun 11
Hybrid Vehicles That Are Even More Efficient
A student has designed a way to increase the energy sustainability of hybrid cars. The implementation of his idea enables a vehicle to consume much less fuel than it would with a conventional configuration.img...
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General Science | Thursday Jun 11
Stress Makes Your Hair Go Gray
Those pesky graying hairs that tend to crop up with age really are signs of stress, reveals a new report.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/cWRfZeb2uhM" height="1" width="1"/
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General Science | Thursday Jun 11
If The Shoe Flits, Duck: Real-life Example Of Humans' Dual Vision System
The reactions of former President George W. Bush and Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki when an Iraqi reporter flung his shoes toward the two men during a Baghdad news conference confirmed the results of an experiment being conducted by...
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General Science | Thursday Jun 11
Nintendo Wii May Enhance Parkinson's Treatment
The Nintendo Wii may help treat symptoms of Parkinson's disease, including depression, a researcher says.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/dxiN1073cyI" height="1" width="1"/
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General Science | Thursday Jun 11
Isolated Forest Patches Lose Species, Diversity
Failing to see the forest for the trees may be causing us to overlook the declining health of Wisconsin's forest ecosystems.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/DeuNF-n6UEY" height="1" width="1"/
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General Science | Thursday Jun 11
Deforestation Causes 'Boom-and-bust' Development In The Amazon
Clearing the Amazon rainforest increases Brazilian communities' wealth and quality of life, but these improvements are short-lived, according to new research published in Science. The study shows that levels of development revert back to well below...
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General Science | Thursday Jun 11
New 'Electronic Glue' Promises Less Expensive Semiconductors
Researchers have developed an "electronic glue" that could accelerate advances in semiconductor-based technologies, including solar cells and thermoelectric devices that convert sun light and waste heat, respectively, into useful electrical energy.img...
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General Science | Thursday Jun 11
Dangerous Liaisons: Bacterial 'Sex' Causes Antibiotic Resistance
Some disease-causing bacteria are becoming resistant to antibiotics because they have peculiar sex lives, say researchers publishing new results in the journal Science. The new study helps scientists understand how bacteria develop resistance to...
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General Science | Thursday Jun 11
What Really Prompts The Dog's 'Guilty Look'
What dog owner has not come home to a broken vase or other valuable items and a guilty-looking dog slouching around the house? By ingeniously setting up conditions where the owner was misinformed as to whether their dog had really committed an offense,...
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General Science | Thursday Jun 11
Maple Seeds And Animals Exploit The Same Trick To Fly
The twirling seeds of maple trees spin like miniature helicopters as they fall to the ground. Because the seeds descend slowly as they swirl, they're carried aloft by the wind and dispersed over great distances. Just how the seeds manage to fall so...
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General Science | Thursday Jun 11
Can Light Therapy Improve Your Sexual Functioning? New Promising Data
The results of this study suggest a potentially favorable effect of bright light therapy on primary sexual dysfunctions. A larger study is now needed to confirm these preliminary findings and to test whether bright light therapy may be of help for the...
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General Science | Wednesday Jun 10
Embryology Study Offers Clues To Birth Defects
Embryologists have clarified the role that retinoic acid plays in limb development. A new study showed that retinoic acid controls the development (or budding) of forelimbs, but not hindlimbs, and that retinoic acid is not responsible for patterning...
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General Science | Wednesday Jun 10
Manipulating Light On A Chip For Quantum Technologies
A team of physicists and engineers has demonstrated exquisite control of single particles of light -- photons -- on a silicon chip to make a major advance towards long-sought-after quantum technologies, including super-powerful quantum computers and...
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General Science | Wednesday Jun 10
Brain Molecule Reduces Food Intake
Researchers have identified a new appetite suppressant for promoting weight loss that they say works in rodents and may one day be used to develop an effective anti-obesity treatment.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/GlkjNY4pa1g"...
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General Science | Wednesday Jun 10
Fossil Bone Bed Helps Reconstruct Life Along California's Ancient Coastline
Sharktooth Hill near Bakersfield, Calif., is the home of the most extensive marine bone bed in the world, a 100-square-mile layer of shark, seal, ray, whale, turtle and fish bones. Researchers have analyzed the 15-million-year-old fossils to decipher...
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General Science | Wednesday Jun 10
What Causes Irritability In Menopause?
In this study outward and inward irritability of peri- and postmenopausal women were found to be related to the presence of chronic disease. Moreover, outward irritability correlated with FSH and LH levels, independently of specific menopausal...
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General Science | Wednesday Jun 10
No More Geeky Glasses To Watch 3D
Most people??™s experience with 3D involves wearing tinted glasses in a cinema. But a new technology, which does not require glasses and may enable 3DTV, is being developed.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/Pz3-wFGdda0"...
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General Science | Wednesday Jun 10
Cancer Found To Be A Moving Target
Scientists have mathematically analyzed the mutator hypothesis and compared the cancer-generating efficiency of mutator and nonmutator pathways to cancer.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/AMSeWDicvxU" height="1" width="1"/
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General Science | Wednesday Jun 10
New Cleaning Protocol For Future 'Search For Life' Missions
Scientists have developed a new cleaning protocol for space hardware, such as the scoops of Mars rovers, which could be used on future "search for life" missions on other planets.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/fiuheS-z0Rg"...
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General Science | Wednesday Jun 10
Stopping Diabetes Damage With Vitamin C
Researchers have found a way to stop the damage caused by type 1 diabetes with the combination of insulin and a common vitamin found in most medicine cabinets.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/_qMzLlYB1TU" height="1" width="1"/
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General Science | Wednesday Jun 10
Moon Magic: New Tool To Visualize Past, Future Lunar Eclipses
Researchers have developed a new method for using computer graphics to simulate and render an accurate visualization of a lunar eclipse. The model uses celestial geometry of the sun, Earth, and moon, along with data for the Earth's atmosphere and the...
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General Science | Wednesday Jun 10
H1N1 Swine Flu Update
Many virologists, including Vincent Racaniello, have suggested that the threat of avian influenza (H5N1) was greatly overestimated and so distracted us from more serious threats. Back in early 2005, he suggested that another strain might underpin a...
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General Science | Wednesday Jun 10
Cloned Crops Closer To Being Realized
Clonal reproduction of crop species took a step closer to being realized with new research. The advantage of clonal reproduction is that it produces an individual exactly like an existing one -- very useful for farmers who could replicate the best of...
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General Science | Wednesday Jun 10
Fatal Brain Disease At Work Well Before Symptoms Appear
Scientists have discovered why a paralyzing brain disorder speeds along more rapidly in some patients than others -- a finding that may finally give researchers an entry point toward an effective treatment for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, often...
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General Science | Wednesday Jun 10
Predictive Powers: A Robot That Reads Your Intention?
European researchers in robotics, psychology and cognitive sciences have developed a robot that can predict the intentions of its human partner. This ability to anticipate (or question) actions could make human-robot interactions more natural.img...
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General Science | Wednesday Jun 10
Antibiotics, Antimicrobials And Antifungals In Waterways
Antibiotics, antimicrobials and antifungals are seeping into the waterways of North America, Europe and East Asia, according to an investigation. The review found that consumption of anti-infectives for human and agriculture use contributes to their...
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General Science | Wednesday Jun 10
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