Archive for the ‘research’ Category
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
The more modular genetic information becomes, the more complex the web of life becomes. For example, the human being above is far more complex than the singled-celled yeast used to make these loaves of bread rise, yet humans have only about four times as many genes as yeast cells do. ...
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Saturday, November 10th, 2007
The tiny robot is ringed with sensors that can determine the obstacle-free roaming space, and will either allow infants to bump obstacles or will take control from the infant and drive around the obstacle itself. (Credit: Image courtesy of University Of Delaware)
Babies driving robots. It sounds like the theme of ...
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Saturday, November 10th, 2007
In a computer model, researchers at Illinois were able to simulate the photosynthetic behavior of actual leaves. Here, a gas exchange system measures the rate of carbon dioxide and electron transport in intact leaves. (Credit: Photo by Don Hamerman)
University of Illinois researchers have built a better plant, one that produces ...
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Friday, November 9th, 2007
Engineering physics professor Michael Podowski is project director and principal investigator of the new study. (Credit: Image courtesy of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is leading a $3 million research project that will pair two of the world’s most powerful supercomputers to boost the safety and reliability of next-generation nuclear ...
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Friday, November 9th, 2007
Their eyes met across a crowded room. The party chatter ebbed away, and the music slowed. That first lovers' glaze is the staple of the romantic novelist, and scientists believe they have now revealed the true nature of its true attractive power.
According to new research, romance has very little do ...
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Friday, November 9th, 2007
One of the Auger Observatory's surface detectors. The Andes Mountains provide a snow-capped backdrop to the west of the surface detector array. (Credit: Pierre Auger Observatory)
Scientists of the Pierre Auger Collaboration announced November 8 that active galactic nuclei are the most likely candidate for the source of the highest-energy cosmic ...
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Friday, November 9th, 2007
The orange shapes in this image represent the magma chamber -- a chamber of molten and partly molten rock -- beneath the giant volcanic crater known as the Yellowstone caldera, which is represented by the rusty-colored outline at the top. The red rectangular slab-like feature is a computer-generated representation of ...
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
Taking a page from Nature herself, a team of researchers developed a method to enhance removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and place it in the Earth's oceans for storage.
Unlike other proposed ocean sequestration processes, the new technology does not make the oceans more acid and may be beneficial ...
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
American and Italian researchers have found that boosting the amounts of a marijuana-like brain transmitter called anandamide produces antidepressant effects in test rats.
Led by Daniele Piomelli, the Louise Turner Arnold Chair in Neurosciences and director of the Center for Drug Discovery at the University of California, Irvine, the researchers used ...
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
A ton of microscopic bacteria may be active in each acre of soil. (Credit: Michael T. Holmes, Oregon State University, Corvallis.)
An bacteria and infectious diseases expert argues that all living things must have infections to thrive. Anti-bacterial products are changing how immune systems, gastrointestinal systems and even nervous systems develop ...
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