Science News October 27th, 2010
We gather the latest science news from around the web.
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ScienceDaily.com
2012-02-22
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Not that long ago in a hot spring in Kamchatka, Russia, two groups of genetically indistinguishable microbes decided to part ways. They began evolving into different species – de...
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ScienceDaily.com
2012-02-22
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If you are looking for a particular object -- say a yellow pencil -- on a cluttered desk, how does your brain work to visually locate it? For the first time, neuroscientists have i...
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ScienceDaily.com
2012-02-22
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Researchers have found that silencing a hormone receptor weakens the intestinal barrier, making the body more susceptible to cancer....
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ScienceDaily.com
2012-02-22
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When first exposed to cocaine, the adolescent brain launches a strong defensive reaction designed to minimize the drug's effects, scientists have found. Now two new studies identif...
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ScienceDaily.com
2012-02-22
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Never get stranded with a dead cell phone again. A promising new technology called Power Felt, a thermoelectric device that converts body heat into an electrical current, soon coul...
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ScienceDaily.com
2012-02-22
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A novel bacterium, thought to be a common inhabitant of the oral cavity, has the potential to cause serious disease if it enters the bloodstream, according to a new study....
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Scientific American
2012-02-22
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It's well known that the Milky Way is a spiral galaxy, a swirl of stars in an extended, many-armed disk . But the structure of the galaxy is far from two-dimensional. Above an...
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ScienceDaily.com
2012-02-22
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Bacteria normally found 30 kilometers above Earth have been identified as highly efficient generators of electricity. Bacillus stratosphericus -- a microbe commonly found in high c...
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Scientific American
2012-02-22
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In the classic 1936 cult film Reefer Madness , well-adjusted high school students who try marijuana suddenly sink into a life of addiction, promiscuity, aggression, academic failu...
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ScienceDaily.com
2012-02-22
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Nanowires -- microscopic fibers that can be "grown" in the lab -- are a hot research topic today, with a variety of potential applications including light-emitting diodes and senso...
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Scientific American
2012-02-22
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Otherwise titled: Your mouse sounds JUST like his dad! [More]
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Scientific American
2012-02-22
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Climatologist Michael E. Mann is most famous for what he calls one of the “least interesting” aspects of his work. In the 1990s he used data from tree rings, coral grow...
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ScienceDaily.com
2012-02-21
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Researchers have developed a new injectable hydrogel that could be an effective and safe treatment for tissue damage caused by heart attacks....
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ScienceDaily.com
2012-02-21
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Seven adult-sized humanoid robots took the stage during Drexel University's celebration of National Engineers Week in a first-of-its-kind assembly of robotic technology. Their pres...
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Scientific American
2012-02-21
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It's no secret cigarettes can yellow your teeth. But tobacco smoke has another, unseen effect. It can wipe out the healthy bacteria in your mouth, leaving the field open for pa...
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Scientific American
2012-02-21
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From Nature magazine [More]
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Scientific American
2012-02-21
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An internationally recognized water and climate change expert admitted yesterday that he lied about his identity to obtain internal funding and strategy documents from the Heartlan...
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Scientific American
2012-02-21
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About 300 million years ago, volcanic ash buried a tropical forest located in what is now Inner Mongolia, much like it did the ancient Roman city of Pompeii. [More]
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Scientific American
2012-02-21
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STINSON BEACH, Calif. -- The Pacific Ocean laps against a seaside property in the small Northern California town. If it comes a foot closer, it will breach the black-painted concre...
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ScienceDaily.com
2012-02-21
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Researchers have discovered more details about how an energy sensing “thermostat” protein determines whether cells will store or use their energy reserves. The researchers have...
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Scientific American
2012-02-21
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By Zoë Corbyn of Nature magazineBabies inoculated with a commonly used five-in-one vaccine to protect against a range of potentially lethal childhood diseases face up ...
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ScienceDaily.com
2012-02-21
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Researchers have found new evidence to explain how cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) mediates the transfer of cholesterol from "good" high density lipoproteins (HDLs) to "b...
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ScienceDaily.com
2012-02-21
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Researchers have coaxed gold into nanowires as a way of creating an inexpensive material for detecting poisonous gases found in natural gas....
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ScienceDaily.com
2012-02-21
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The ability to anticipate future events allows us to plan and exert control over our lives, but it may also contribute to stress-related increased risk for the diseases of aging, a...
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ScienceDaily.com
2012-02-21
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Researchers have developed a “soft template infiltration” technique for fabricating free-standing piezoelectrically active ferroelectric nanotubes and other nanostructures from...
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Scientific American
2012-02-21
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Scanning tunnelling microscope image of a silicon surface lithographically prepared for two electrodes and a single transistor atom in the center. Credit: ARC Centre for Quantum Co...
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ScienceDaily.com
2012-02-21
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Astronomers have clocked the fastest wind yet discovered blowing off a disk around a stellar-mass black hole. This result has important implications for understanding how this type...
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Scientific American
2012-02-21
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And then there was one. The last known Rabb’s fringe-limbed tree frog ( Ecnomiohyla rabborum ) now lives by himself at Zoo Atlanta in Georgia after the zoo euthanized the ...
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Scientific American
2012-02-21
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Image courtesy of iStockphoto/vladacanon Scary antibiotic-resistant infections aren’t just lurking in the hospital anymore. They’re in gyms, at the beach , and incre...
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ScienceDaily.com
2012-02-21
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A small population of rattlesnakes that already is in decline in southern Illinois faces a new and unexpected threat in the form of a fungus rarely seen in the wild, researchers re...
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Scientific American
2012-02-21
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Dawn Higginson thought it was strange when she learned that some diving beetles produce sperm that fuse together at the head like Siamese twins. But when the postdoctoral researche...
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ScienceDaily.com
2012-02-19
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Unlike Earth, the Moon has no active volcanoes. This is surprising as liquid magma is believed to exist deep inside the Moon. Scientists have now found that this hot, molten rock c...
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Scientific American
2012-02-19
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“Game over” for climate change . So opines NASA climatologist Jim Hansen when it comes to the development of the Canadian tar sands. And one big way to unleash the est...
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Scientific American
2012-02-19
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QUITO, ECUADOR--Long before the Spanish conquered the Incas in 1533, and centuries before the Incas inhabited this area, the present-day site of Quito International Airport was a m...
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Scientific American
2012-02-19
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“Happy hour” is not when you might expect it to be, according to a new analysis of about half a billion Twitter messages from around the globe. On average, people are c...
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ScienceDaily.com
2012-02-18
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"That's not fair!" It's a common playground complaint. But how early do children acquire this sense of fairness? Before they're 2, says a new study. "We found that 19- and 21-month...
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Scientific American
2012-02-18
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The early signs of autism are visible in the brains of 6-month-old infants, a new study finds, suggesting that future treatments could be given at this time, to lessen the impa...
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ScienceDaily.com
2012-02-18
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Researchers are expressing concern about a new, under-recognized, much more potent variant of a common bacterium that has surfaced in the U.S. It's virulent, potentially drug-resis...
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ScienceDaily.com
2012-02-18
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A novel feeding device developed may decrease the risk of failure to thrive (FTT), which currently affects half of all newborns with congenital heart defects even after their surgi...
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ScienceDaily.com
2012-02-18
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What if we could engineer a liver or kidney from a patient's own stem cells? How about helping regenerate tissue damaged by diseases such as osteoporosis and arthritis? A new study...
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Scientific American
2012-02-18
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In science, citations are gold. A journal article that gets cited a lot is usually considered a valuable piece of work. Now comes a study claiming that the number of times a paper ...
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Scientific American
2012-02-18
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Online dating might give you something, but it’s probably not a soulmate. [More]
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ScienceDaily.com
2012-02-18
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Women who developed pregnancy-related hypertension (preeclampsia) or diabetes were at increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) later in life. Preeclampsia was associated with...
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Scientific American
2012-02-18
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VANCOUVER Resistance to hydraulic fracturing in the U.S. has risen steadily in recent months. Citizens and politicians are worried that fracking deep shales to extract natural...
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Scientific American
2012-02-18
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The experience of indulging in your favorite foods involves not only tasting flavors but also feeling the textures sweep across your tongue. [More]
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ScienceDaily.com
2012-02-18
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In a delicate operation at sea, healthy staghorn coral were transplanted to a threatened reef off the Broward County coast....
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Scientific American
2012-02-18
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If you ever wondered how your body handled all those packaged ramen noodles you ate during college, this video s for you. Stefani Bardin , a TEDxManhattan fellow, wants to learn...
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Scientific American
2012-02-18
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Science fiction often envisions worlds populated by humanoid robots. In reality, insects, reptiles and nonhuman animals often serve as a more practical template for automatons. The...
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ScienceDaily.com
2012-02-17
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Climate warming caused by greenhouse gases is very likely to increase summer temperature variability around the world by the end of this century, new research shows. The findings h...
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Scientific American
2012-02-17
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By Natasha Gilbert of Nature magazineDifficulties in hiring and retaining women scientists and engineers are worrying universities. [More]
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We gather the latest science news from around the web.
Do you have a science news or commentary website you’d like included? Write us at the email address in this page footer.
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ScienceDaily.com 2012-02-22 - Not that long ago in a hot spring in Kamchatka, Russia, two groups of genetically indistinguishable microbes decided to part ways. They began evolving into different species – de...
-
ScienceDaily.com 2012-02-22 - If you are looking for a particular object -- say a yellow pencil -- on a cluttered desk, how does your brain work to visually locate it? For the first time, neuroscientists have i...
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ScienceDaily.com 2012-02-22 - Researchers have found that silencing a hormone receptor weakens the intestinal barrier, making the body more susceptible to cancer....
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ScienceDaily.com 2012-02-22 - When first exposed to cocaine, the adolescent brain launches a strong defensive reaction designed to minimize the drug's effects, scientists have found. Now two new studies identif...
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ScienceDaily.com 2012-02-22 - Never get stranded with a dead cell phone again. A promising new technology called Power Felt, a thermoelectric device that converts body heat into an electrical current, soon coul...
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ScienceDaily.com 2012-02-22 - A novel bacterium, thought to be a common inhabitant of the oral cavity, has the potential to cause serious disease if it enters the bloodstream, according to a new study....
-
Scientific American 2012-02-22 - It's well known that the Milky Way is a spiral galaxy, a swirl of stars in an extended, many-armed disk . But the structure of the galaxy is far from two-dimensional. Above an...
-
ScienceDaily.com 2012-02-22 - Bacteria normally found 30 kilometers above Earth have been identified as highly efficient generators of electricity. Bacillus stratosphericus -- a microbe commonly found in high c...
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Scientific American 2012-02-22 - In the classic 1936 cult film Reefer Madness , well-adjusted high school students who try marijuana suddenly sink into a life of addiction, promiscuity, aggression, academic failu...
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ScienceDaily.com 2012-02-22 - Nanowires -- microscopic fibers that can be "grown" in the lab -- are a hot research topic today, with a variety of potential applications including light-emitting diodes and senso...
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Scientific American 2012-02-22 - Otherwise titled: Your mouse sounds JUST like his dad! [More] ...
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Scientific American 2012-02-22 - Climatologist Michael E. Mann is most famous for what he calls one of the “least interesting” aspects of his work. In the 1990s he used data from tree rings, coral grow...
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ScienceDaily.com 2012-02-21 - Researchers have developed a new injectable hydrogel that could be an effective and safe treatment for tissue damage caused by heart attacks....
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ScienceDaily.com 2012-02-21 - Seven adult-sized humanoid robots took the stage during Drexel University's celebration of National Engineers Week in a first-of-its-kind assembly of robotic technology. Their pres...
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Scientific American 2012-02-21 - It's no secret cigarettes can yellow your teeth. But tobacco smoke has another, unseen effect. It can wipe out the healthy bacteria in your mouth, leaving the field open for pa...
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Scientific American 2012-02-21 - From Nature magazine [More] ...
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Scientific American 2012-02-21 - An internationally recognized water and climate change expert admitted yesterday that he lied about his identity to obtain internal funding and strategy documents from the Heartlan...
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Scientific American 2012-02-21 - About 300 million years ago, volcanic ash buried a tropical forest located in what is now Inner Mongolia, much like it did the ancient Roman city of Pompeii. [More] ...
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Scientific American 2012-02-21 - STINSON BEACH, Calif. -- The Pacific Ocean laps against a seaside property in the small Northern California town. If it comes a foot closer, it will breach the black-painted concre...
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ScienceDaily.com 2012-02-21 - Researchers have discovered more details about how an energy sensing “thermostat” protein determines whether cells will store or use their energy reserves. The researchers have...
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Scientific American 2012-02-21 - By Zoë Corbyn of Nature magazineBabies inoculated with a commonly used five-in-one vaccine to protect against a range of potentially lethal childhood diseases face up ...
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ScienceDaily.com 2012-02-21 - Researchers have found new evidence to explain how cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) mediates the transfer of cholesterol from "good" high density lipoproteins (HDLs) to "b...
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ScienceDaily.com 2012-02-21 - Researchers have coaxed gold into nanowires as a way of creating an inexpensive material for detecting poisonous gases found in natural gas....
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ScienceDaily.com 2012-02-21 - The ability to anticipate future events allows us to plan and exert control over our lives, but it may also contribute to stress-related increased risk for the diseases of aging, a...
-
ScienceDaily.com 2012-02-21 - Researchers have developed a “soft template infiltration” technique for fabricating free-standing piezoelectrically active ferroelectric nanotubes and other nanostructures from...
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Scientific American 2012-02-21 - Scanning tunnelling microscope image of a silicon surface lithographically prepared for two electrodes and a single transistor atom in the center. Credit: ARC Centre for Quantum Co...
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ScienceDaily.com 2012-02-21 - Astronomers have clocked the fastest wind yet discovered blowing off a disk around a stellar-mass black hole. This result has important implications for understanding how this type...
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Scientific American 2012-02-21 - And then there was one. The last known Rabb’s fringe-limbed tree frog ( Ecnomiohyla rabborum ) now lives by himself at Zoo Atlanta in Georgia after the zoo euthanized the ...
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Scientific American 2012-02-21 - Image courtesy of iStockphoto/vladacanon Scary antibiotic-resistant infections aren’t just lurking in the hospital anymore. They’re in gyms, at the beach , and incre...
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ScienceDaily.com 2012-02-21 - A small population of rattlesnakes that already is in decline in southern Illinois faces a new and unexpected threat in the form of a fungus rarely seen in the wild, researchers re...
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Scientific American 2012-02-21 - Dawn Higginson thought it was strange when she learned that some diving beetles produce sperm that fuse together at the head like Siamese twins. But when the postdoctoral researche...
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ScienceDaily.com 2012-02-19 - Unlike Earth, the Moon has no active volcanoes. This is surprising as liquid magma is believed to exist deep inside the Moon. Scientists have now found that this hot, molten rock c...
-
Scientific American 2012-02-19 - “Game over” for climate change . So opines NASA climatologist Jim Hansen when it comes to the development of the Canadian tar sands. And one big way to unleash the est...
-
Scientific American 2012-02-19 - QUITO, ECUADOR--Long before the Spanish conquered the Incas in 1533, and centuries before the Incas inhabited this area, the present-day site of Quito International Airport was a m...
-
Scientific American 2012-02-19 - “Happy hour” is not when you might expect it to be, according to a new analysis of about half a billion Twitter messages from around the globe. On average, people are c...
-
ScienceDaily.com 2012-02-18 - "That's not fair!" It's a common playground complaint. But how early do children acquire this sense of fairness? Before they're 2, says a new study. "We found that 19- and 21-month...
-
Scientific American 2012-02-18 - The early signs of autism are visible in the brains of 6-month-old infants, a new study finds, suggesting that future treatments could be given at this time, to lessen the impa...
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ScienceDaily.com 2012-02-18 - Researchers are expressing concern about a new, under-recognized, much more potent variant of a common bacterium that has surfaced in the U.S. It's virulent, potentially drug-resis...
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ScienceDaily.com 2012-02-18 - A novel feeding device developed may decrease the risk of failure to thrive (FTT), which currently affects half of all newborns with congenital heart defects even after their surgi...
-
ScienceDaily.com 2012-02-18 - What if we could engineer a liver or kidney from a patient's own stem cells? How about helping regenerate tissue damaged by diseases such as osteoporosis and arthritis? A new study...
-
Scientific American 2012-02-18 - In science, citations are gold. A journal article that gets cited a lot is usually considered a valuable piece of work. Now comes a study claiming that the number of times a paper ...
-
Scientific American 2012-02-18 - Online dating might give you something, but it’s probably not a soulmate. [More] ...
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ScienceDaily.com 2012-02-18 - Women who developed pregnancy-related hypertension (preeclampsia) or diabetes were at increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) later in life. Preeclampsia was associated with...
-
Scientific American 2012-02-18 - VANCOUVER Resistance to hydraulic fracturing in the U.S. has risen steadily in recent months. Citizens and politicians are worried that fracking deep shales to extract natural...
-
Scientific American 2012-02-18 - The experience of indulging in your favorite foods involves not only tasting flavors but also feeling the textures sweep across your tongue. [More] ...
-
ScienceDaily.com 2012-02-18 - In a delicate operation at sea, healthy staghorn coral were transplanted to a threatened reef off the Broward County coast....
-
Scientific American 2012-02-18 - If you ever wondered how your body handled all those packaged ramen noodles you ate during college, this video s for you. Stefani Bardin , a TEDxManhattan fellow, wants to learn...
-
Scientific American 2012-02-18 - Science fiction often envisions worlds populated by humanoid robots. In reality, insects, reptiles and nonhuman animals often serve as a more practical template for automatons. The...
-
ScienceDaily.com 2012-02-17 - Climate warming caused by greenhouse gases is very likely to increase summer temperature variability around the world by the end of this century, new research shows. The findings h...
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Scientific American 2012-02-17 - By Natasha Gilbert of Nature magazineDifficulties in hiring and retaining women scientists and engineers are worrying universities. [More] ...
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