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Posted 2010-09-11:
- Flying fish glide as well as birds, researchers find
- Misfolded neural proteins linked to autism disorders
- E. coli engineered to produce biodiesel
- New study singles out factors linked to cognitive deficits in type 2 diabetes
- Yikes! Sensor measures yoctonewton forces fast
- Energy drinks may give young sports teams an edge, study says
- Moonstruck primates: Owl monkeys need moonlight as much as a biological clock for nocturnal activity
- Appetite hormones may predict weight regain after dieting
- Research shows continued decline of Oregon's largest glacier
- Computer models suggest treatments for fractures that won't heal
- Micro rheometer is latest 'lab on a chip' device
- New CCTV technology to help prevent terror attacks
- Mental maturity scan tracks brain development
- Drug holds promise to halt debilitating condition of diabetes
- A Nearby Galactic Exemplar
- New model may simplify high-dose radiosurgery planning
- Hip dysplasia susceptibility in dogs may be underreported
- Brain mechanism linked to relapse after cocaine withdrawal
Posted 2010-09-11:
- Caught in the act: Fireballs light up Jupiter
- Function found for Alzheimer's protein
- Neurons: Faster than thought and able to multiply
- A smart use for wisdom teeth: Making stem cells
- Graphene may hold key to speeding up DNA sequencing
- Perceived life-threat affects mental health, Swedish research finds finds
- In attracting mates, male bowerbirds appear to rely on special optical effect
- New neurological deficit behind lazy eye identified
- World's first transcontinental anesthesia: Researchers pioneer anesthetics via videoconferencing
- Researchers analyze impact of chemical BPA in dental sealants used in children
- Tally-ho! Deep Impact spacecraft eyes comet target
- Music on prescription could help treat emotional and physical pain
- First detailed image of disc around young star
- Diet-induced obesity accelerates leukemia, study shows
- Conditional small RNA molecules can kill cancer cells and leave healthy cells alone
- Use of medication for insomnia or anxiety may increase mortality risk, study suggests
- New report seeks to improve climate forecasts
- Effects of population aging have been exaggerated, new analysis suggests: More appropriate retirement ages?
- Researchers give robots the capability for deceptive behavior
- Frog skin may provide antimicrobial peptides effective against multidrug-resistant infections
- Researchers expand yeast's sugary diet to include plant fiber
- Keeping stem cells from changing fates
- Gene discovery holds key to growing crops in cold climates
- Brain needs to remember faces in three dimensions
- 'Tractor beam' one step closer to reality: Laser moves small particles
- Critical 'traffic engineer' of the nervous system identified
- New method helps computer vision systems decipher outdoor scenes
- Limiting harmful acrylamide: Lactic acid bacteria to lower risk of cancer
- Bionic speech recognition
- Biofeedback for your brain?
- Quantum dice: Simple device measures quantum noise of vacuum fluctuations and generates true random numbers
- New hot spot for genesis of signaling neurons in adult brain
- Oldest Roman baths in Asia Minor discovered in Sagalassos
- New dual recognition mechanism discovered in tuberculosis
- Main climate threat from carbon dioxide sources yet to be built
- Basic physical capability can predict mortality in later life
- The making of a queen: Road to royalty begins early in paper wasps
- High stress hormone levels linked to increased cardiovascular mortality
- Chopping and changing in the microbial world: How mycoplasmas – the simplest bacterial pathogens – stay alive
- Promising treatment for metastatic melanoma 'fast tracked' by FDA
- Opportunity Rover reaches halfway point of long trek to Mars crater
- Diagnostic errors 'greatest threat to patient safety in hospitals,' claims senior UK doctor
- Mental health leaves most costly disability to Canadian employers, study finds
- Research shows unemployment programs lacking for people with disabilities
- Program to improve palliative care falls short of hopes, study finds
- Cost of over-triage on the nation's health system: US researchers find potential area of cost savings
Posted 2010-09-10:
- Scientists observe single ions moving through tiny carbon-nanotube channel
- Simplified heart-risk guideline may miscalculate risk for millions
- In order to save biodiversity, society's behavior must change, leading conservationists warn
- Pediatric vaccine stockpile policies need to be revisited, researcher says
- How mycobacteria avoid destruction inside human cells
- Scope-severity paradox: Inflicting greater harm judged to be less harmful, study finds
- Phoenix Mars Lander finds surprises about red planet's watery past
- Strategy discovered to prevent Alzheimer's-associated traffic jams in the brain
- Chemical engineer's work could lead to improved DNA analysis
- Improvement in prediction of blood clots in cancer patients
- Energy technologies not enough to sufficiently reduce carbon emissions, expert concludes
- Most influential tweeters of all? Depends on the topic
- When species are about to become extinct: New research may help predict tipping point
- Liver defect likely cause of DHA deficiency in Alzheimer's patients, UCI study finds
- NASA satellites reveal surprising connection between beetle attacks, wildfire
- Corn bred to contain beta-carotene is a good source of vitamin A, study finds
- Tectonic zip: Predictable events of the February 2010 earthquake in Chile
- Chronic drinking increases levels of stress hormones, leading to neurotoxicity
- Extreme X-ray source suggests new class of black hole
- Self-administered vaccine patch may protect against potentially pandemic flu viruses
- Why the biological clock? Aging reduces centromere cohesion, disrupts reproduction, biologists discover
- These dendritic cells are fishy, but that's a good thing
- Portable laser backpack revolutionizes 3-D mapping
- Adults demonstrate modified immune response after receiving massage, researchers show
- Laws of physics vary throughout the universe, new study suggests
- New compound safely reduces plaques in mouse model of Alzheimer's disease
- It takes less than you think to create a starling spectacular
- Muscle wasting in cancer does not spare the heart
- Deepwater Horizon oil remains below surface, will come ashore in pulses, expert says
- Decision-making deficits related to driving under the influence are often undetected
- Most penguin populations continue to decline, biologists warn
- Parents report a widely prescribed antibiotic is effective for fragile X treatment
- Is organic farming good for wildlife? It depends on the alternative
- Molecular gatekeeper of arthritis identified: Removal of key protein leads to initiation of disease
- Microbial breakthrough impacts health, agriculture, biofuels
- Consumers will pay more for goods they can touch
- Researchers hear puzzling new physics from graphene quartet's quantum harmonies
- Potential new drug for neurodegenerative disease identified
- Computer-based video analysis boosts data gathering in behavioral studies
- How insulin stimulates fat cells to take in glucose
- Cloud computing method greatly increases gene analysis
- Research on team loyalty yields new insight into 'die-hard' fandom
- Woolly mammoth, woolly rhinoceros and reindeer lived on Iberian Peninsula 150,000 years ago, findings show
- New class of peptides may protect against septic shock
- Satellite data reveal seasonal pollution changes over India
- Micro-RNA determines malignancy of lung cancer
- Experts question claim that Alexander the Great's half-brother is buried at Vergina
- Reading food labels, combined with exercise, can lead to weight loss, study finds
- European Union could create incentive for new drug treatments, experts propose
- Shortage of FSC wood could lead to price premium for green construction
- Joint replacement: New clinical guidelines for diagnosing periprosthetic joint infections of the hip and knee
- Massachusetts health reform fails the disadvantaged, study finds
Posted 2010-09-09:
- Previously known as animal-only pigment, bilirubin now confirmed in Bird of Paradise flower
- Insulin may reduce several inflammatory factors induced by bacterial infection
- Structure for three intrinsically disordered proteins determined
- Novel sensing mechanism discovered in dendritic cells to increase immune response to HIV
- Intelligent Battery project opens new ground in energy storage applications
- Does the impact of psychological trauma cross generations?
- New clue to how last ice age ended
- New gene for memory identified in fruit fly; May shed light on human neurological disorders
- Twins are intriguing research subjects for biometircs researchers
- Why chromosomes never tie their shoelaces
- Forcing mismatched elements together could yield better solar cells
- It's good to gossip -- but be nice!
- Brain cells -- not lack of willpower -- determine obesity, study finds
- Scientists make leap forward in early detection for Alzheimer's and cancer
- Eastern North Pacific basking shark a 'species of concern'
- Questioning the safety of certain 'healthful' plant-based antioxidants
- Nano-architectured aluminum has steely strength
- Personality predicts cheating more than academic struggles, study shows
- Unusual feed supplement could ease gassy cows, reduce their greenhouse gas emissions
- A new role for insulin in cell survival, cell metabolism and stress response
- Scientists create new process to 'program' cancer cell death
- At least 1 in 10 athletes injured during 2010 Winter Olympics, study finds
- Golf: Evidence of how 'loading the hips' improves golf drives
- Low-income neighborhoods experience far more injuries than high-income areas, study finds
- Big bang was followed by chaos, mathematical analysis shows
- Fetal exposure to radiation and the risk of childhood cancer: What is the likelihood of a risk?
- Ritalin improves brain function, task performance in cocaine abusers, study finds
- New robotic head and neck cancer surgery preserves speech, without scarring, study shows
- Designing your own workspace improves health, happiness and productivity
- Excessive drinking may lead to poor brain health via obesity
- Termites foretell climate change in Africa's savannas
- Regular statin use is associated with a reduced risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis
- A missing link from obesity to infertility: Researchers unravel clues to infertility among obese women
- An important genetic cardiovascular risk factor explained
- Fungal threat to archived film
- Addressing negative thoughts most effective in fighting loneliness
- Turkey genome sequenced more than 90 percent, including sex chromosomes 'Z' and 'W'
- Is hand washing enough to stop the spread of disease?
- Chemical for keeping human pluripotent stem cells alive identified
- Wrist splints in children as effective as casts, study finds
- GOCE gravity mission back in action
- Parents at highest risk for depression in the first year after child's birth
- Irrigation's cooling effects may mask warming in some regions -- for now
- Smoking damages men's sperm and also the numbers of germ and somatic cells in developing embryos
- Satellite navigation steers unmanned micro-planes
- New light on the mechanism of Parkinson’s disease
- Potomac River: 10-fold increase in native submerged vegetation reflects improved water quality
- Bipolar disorder does not increase risk of violent crime, Swedish study suggests
- Cash hoarding nothing new for businesses, scholar says
- Unauthorized population would soar if birthright citizenship repealed, report finds
- Education more important than knowledge in stopping spread of HIV in Africa, study finds
- Two Asteroids to Pass by Earth
Posted 2010-09-08:
- Can we spot volcanoes on alien worlds? Astronomers say yes
- Short sleepers at higher risk of type 2 diabetes and heart disease, study finds
- What can a New Zealand reptile tell us about false teeth?
- Multivitamin use doesn't impact colon cancer outcomes, study finds
- Gambling on breast scans: Monte Carlo analysis could help reduce number of cancers missed by mammography
- Having a male co-twin improves mental rotation performance in females
- The brain speaks: Scientists decode words from brain signals
- Short nighttime sleep duration among infants, young children associated with obesity in later life
- Imaging reveals key metabolic factors of cannibalistic bacteria
- First Irish genome sequenced
- Critically endangered whales may be fleeing Russian oil and gas boom, observers fear
- Radiologists identify and treat teenage self-injury
- Colorful mix of asteroids discovered, may aid future space travel
- Compounds in non-stick cookware may be associated with elevated cholesterol in children and teens
- Insect brains are rich stores of new antibiotics
- Discovery of mixer cells: Mixer cells relax tissue tension during embryogenesis
- Six times more insect species in tropical mountains than predicted
- Less is more: Teens who sleep less eat more fatty foods and snacks, study shows
- Extreme survival: 'Conan the Bacterium' reveals its recipe for success
- Hallucinogen can safely ease anxiety in advanced-stage cancer patients, study suggests
- Visual pattern preference may be indicator of autism in toddlers
- More infants should receive iron supplements, researchers urge
- 'Slow light' on a chip holds promise for optical communications
- Memory problems more common in men?
- Melting rate of icecaps in Greenland and Western Antarctica lower than expected
- What are babies made of? Research shows for some it is sugar, salt and not all things nice
- Cells can eat parts of themselves, with help from one protein
- What's causing life-threatening blood clots in brain surgery patients?
- Synthetic eye prosthesis: Plastic artificial cornea implants may offer hope for blind patients
- Study examines association between urban living and psychotic disorders
- Fears of a decline in bee pollination confirmed
- Scientists begin to unravel causes of mysterious skin disease
- Blue breed: Rare hibiscus color is achieved thanks to flower breeding project
- Chronic Lyme disease: How often is it diagnosed and treated?
- Fashion student designs edible clothes
- Quality measurement programs could shortchange physicians caring for at-risk patients
- More Americans bypassing their personal physician when immediate treatment required, study finds
Posted 2010-09-07:
- Role of key genetic catalyst for human diversity discovered
- Talented bacteria make food poisoning unpredictable
- Increase in Cambodia's vultures gives hope to imperiled scavengers
- Satellite data reveals why migrating birds have a small window to spread bird flu
- Breaking up phosphorus with ultraviolet light may offer a safer, simpler way to build many industrial and household chemicals
- Non-invasive therapy significantly improves depression, researchers say
- New self-assembling photovoltaic technology repairs itself
- Backstabbing bacteria: A new treatment for infection?
- Lake Michigan ecosystem may crash: 'Doughnut' of phytoplankton disappearing
- Induced pluripotent stem cell retain an inactivated X chromosome, study finds
- Listening to ancient colors: New technique may help restorers identify decades-old pigments
- Cognitive effects of Parkinson's disease: Automated tasks easier, but task switching difficult
- Transition metal catalysts could be key to origin of life, scientists report
- 'Jailbreak' bacteria can trigger heart disease
- New mission to skim the Sun: NASA selects science investigations for Solar Probe Plus
- 'Basal-like' breast cancer does not originate from basal stem cells
- In a changing climate, erratic rainfall poses growing threat to rural poor, new report says
- Acting selfish? Blame your mother!
- How German palliative care physicians act at the end of life
Posted 2010-09-06:
- Mothers matter! High social status and maternal support play an important role in mating success of male bonobos
- New pump created for microneedle drug-delivery patch
- Did Viking Mars landers find life's building blocks? Missing piece inspires new look at puzzle
- Vitamin D is a prognostic marker in heart failure, study finds
- New bee species discovered in downtown Toronto
- Race, insurance status cited in uneven death rates among pedestrians hit by cars
- Mosquitoes: Genetic structure of first animal to show evolutionary response to climate change determined
- Starvation keeps sleep-deprived fly brain sharp
- Global warming's silver lining? Northern countries will thrive and grow, researcher predicts
- Iron deficiency in heart failure
- NASA and ATK successfully test five-segment solid rocket motor
- Americans struggle with long-term weight loss
Posted 2010-09-05:
- Magnetism's subatomic roots: Study of high-tech materials helps explain everyday phenomenon
- Hair provides proof of the link between chronic stress and heart attack
- Novel nanotechnology collaboration leads to breakthrough in cancer research
- Functional motor neuron subtypes generated from embryonic stem cells
- Helping corn-based plastics take more heat
- Next step in evolution? A technical life form that passes on knowledge and experience
- Most new farmland in tropics comes from slashing forests, research shows
- When it comes to the immune system, we're all more alike than previously thought, study finds
- Why fish oils work swimmingly against inflammation and diabetes
- New animal model for hemophilia A developed
- Many urban streams harmful to aquatic life following winter pavement deicing
- Verbal snippets offer insights on well-being amid separation, divorce
Posted 2010-09-04:
- Ants take on Goliath role in protecting trees in the savanna from elephants
- Mechanisms and function of a type of mysterious immune cell discovered
- Giant Greenland iceberg -- largest in the northern hemisphere -- enters Nares Strait
- How bone-marrow stem cells hold their 'breath' in low-oxygen environments
- Chemists, engineers achieve world record with high-speed graphene transistors
- Low grades in adolescence linked to dopamine genes, says biosocial criminologist
- Brainy worms: Scientists uncover counterpart of cerebral cortex in marine worms
- Capsaicin can act as co-carcinogen, study finds; Chili pepper component linked to skin cancer
- Cranberry juice shows promise blocking Staph infections
- Cancer-causing gene crucial in stem cell development, study finds
- Computer technique could help partially sighted 'see' better
- Science's policy clout diminished, but oil risk looms large, study finds
- Miniature auto differential helps tiny aerial robots stay aloft
- Children who eat vended snack foods face chronic health problems, poor diet, study finds
- Experiment records ultrafast chemical reaction with vibrational echoes
- Increased risk for lupus in men with certain form of immune receptor
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