 Deep sea methane scavengers captured May 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Scientists of the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena succeeded in capturing syntrophic (means "feeding together") ... | |
 Seeing Alzheimer's amyloids May 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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In an important step toward demystifying the role protein clumps play in the development of neurodegenerative disease, researchers have created a stunning three-dimensional picture of an Alzheimer’s peptide ... | |
Fruit fly avoidance mechanism could lead to new ways to control pain in humans May 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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At first, fruit flies eat like horses. Hatching inside over-ripe fruit where they were laid, they feed wildly in the sugar-rich environment until nature sends them an offer they can’t refuse. To survive, they must leave the ... | |
 A molecular thermometer for the distant universe May 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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Astronomers have made use of ESO’s Very Large Telescope to detect for the first time in the ultraviolet the carbon monoxide molecule in a galaxy located almost 11 billion light-years away, a feat that had ... | |
 A Smarter Way to Grow Graphene May 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 35 vote(s)
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Graphene, a sheet of carbon just one atom thick, has many potential uses in the electronics industry, but producing these ideal two-dimensional carbon sheets is very difficult and, as a result, their use has ... | |
 New process may convert toxic computer waste into safe products May 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Discarded computer parts could one day wind up fueling your car. That’s because researchers in Romania and Turkey have developed a simple, efficient method for recycling printed circuit boards into environmentally-friendly ... | |
Mayo Clinic study shows acupuncture and myofascial trigger therapy treat same pain areas May 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Ancient acupuncture and modern myofascial pain therapy each focus on hundreds of similar points on the body to treat pain, although they do it differently, says a physician at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville who analyzed the ... | |
Researcher finds El Nino may have been factor in Magellan's Pacific voyage May 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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A new paper by North Carolina State University archaeologist Dr. Scott Fitzpatrick shows that Ferdinand Magellan’s historic circumnavigation of the globe was likely influenced in large part by unusual weather conditions – ... | |
 Nanowires may boost solar cell efficiency, engineers say May 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 41 vote(s)
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University of California, San Diego electrical engineers have created experimental solar cells spiked with nanowires that could lead to highly efficient thin-film solar cells of the future. | |
 MIT students show power of open cell phone systems May 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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(AP) -- What do you want your cell phone to be able to do? Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Hal Abelson put that question to about 20 computer science students this semester when he gave them ... | |
 Use of wind energy expected to grow dramatically May 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 23 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Two decades from now Americans could get as much electricity from windmills as from nuclear power plants, according to a government report that lays out a possible plan for wind energy growth. | |
Children better prepared for school if their parents read aloud to them May 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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Young children whose parents read aloud to them have better language and literacy skills when they go to school, according to a review published online ahead of print in the Archives of Disease in Childhood. | |
 Swiss man soars above Alps with jet-powered wing May 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 29 vote(s)
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(AP) -- A Swiss pilot strapped on a jet-powered wing and leaped from a plane Wednesday for the first public demonstration of the homemade device, turning figure eights and soaring high above the Alps. | |
 Sahara made slow transition from green to desert: study May 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 43 vote(s)
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The Sahara became the world's biggest hot desert some 2,700 years ago after a very slow fade from green, according to a new study which clashes with the theory that desertification came abruptly. | |
Researchers synthesize molecule with self-control May 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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Plants have an ambivalent relationship with light. They need it to live, but too much light leads to the increased production of high-energy chemical intermediates that can injure or kill the plant. | |
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