Location: Purdue University, and University of Texas at Austin, United States
The crystal structure of a molecule from a primitive fungus has served as a
time machine to show researchers more about the evolution of life from the
simple to the complex.
By studying the three-dimensional version of the fungus...
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Location: American Institute of Biological Sciences, United States
The January 2008 issue of BioScience includes a special section entitled
“Managing for Resilience in Coastal Marine Ecosystems.” The four articles in the
section highlight different aspects of attempts to incorporate modern concepts
from...
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Location: American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, United States
Tonsillectomies to treat chronic and recurrent tonsillitis substantially
improve a patient’s quality of live in both children and adults, according to
two new studies published as a supplement to the January 2008 issue of
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Location: University of California , Los Angeles, United States
It's good news that we are living longer, but bad news that the longer we
live, the better our odds of developing late-onset Alzheimer's disease.
Many Alzheimer's researchers have long touted fish oil, by pill or diet, as
an...
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Location: University of Rochester Medical Center, United States
A brain chemical that makes us sleepy also appears to play a central role in
the success of deep brain stimulation to ease symptoms in patients with
Parkinson’s disease and other
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Location: Coral Reef Targeted Research (CRTR), Australia
If world leaders do not immediately engage in a race against time to save the
Earth's coral reefs, these vital ecosystems will not survive the global warming
and acidification predicted for later this century. That is the conclusion of a
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Location: Emory University, and the Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
Using tiny gold particles embedded with dyes, researchers have shown that they can identify tumors under the skin of a living animal. These tools may allow doctors to detect and diagnose cancer earlier and less invasively
Studded with...
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Location: Washington University, St. Louis, United States
Jupiter’s moon Europa is just as far away as ever, but new research is
bringing scientists closer to being able to explore its tantalizing ice-covered
ocean and determine its potential for harboring life.
“We’ve learned a lot about...
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Location: Ohio State University, United States
Scientists have discovered what they think may be another reason why
Greenland 's ice is melting: a thin spot in Earth's crust is enabling
underground magma to heat the ice.
They have found at least one “hotspot” in the northeast...
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Location: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), United States
Scientists at the National
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made the first direct
measurements of the infinitesimal expansion and collapse of thin polymer films
used in the...
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Location: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), United States
The National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed an imaging system that quickly
maps the mechanical properties of materials—how stiff or stretchy they are,
for...
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Location: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
The Voyager 2 spacecraft's Plasma Science instrument, developed at MIT
in the 1970s, has turned up surprising revelations about the boundary zone that
marks the edge of the sun's influence in...
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Location: Purdue University, United States
As the United Nations climate negotiations proceed in Bali, Indonesia,
researchers have taken a first step toward quantifying the "socioclimatic"
exposure of different countries to future climate change.
The research team from
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Location: RAND Corporation, United States
A RAND Corporation study issued today
gives rail security planners and policymakers a framework to develop
cost-effective plans to secure their rail systems from terrorist attacks.
More than 12...
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Location: Conservation International, United States
Climate
change will affect national parks, forest reserves and other protected areas
around the world, in some cases altering conditions so severely that the
resulting...
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Location: Southwestern Medical Center, University of Texas, United States
The sleep patterns of patients in the intensive care unit are so superficial that they barely spend any time in the restorative stages of sleep that aid in healing,
UT Southwestern Medical Center...
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Location: Iowa State University, United States
Let's say a fuel derived from biomass
produces too much soot when it's burned in a combustion chamber designed for
fossil fuels.
How can an engineer find the source...
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Location: University of British Columbia, Canada
Observations about the early formation of Earth may answer an age-old
question about why the planet’s mantle is missing some of the matter that
should be present, according to UBC
geophysicist John...
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