Archive for the ‘scientists’ Category
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
A gut hormone that causes people to eat more does so by making food appear more desirable, suggests a new report in the May issue of Cell Metabolism, a publication of Cell Press. In a brain imaging study of individuals, the researchers found that reward centers respond more strongly to ...
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Friday, January 11th, 2008
NASA will point a power-packed $8.7 million University of Colorado at Boulder space instrument at some of the last unexplored terrain in the inner solar system when the MESSENGER spacecraft whips within 125 miles of Mercury's surface Jan. 14 at a mind-boggling 141,000 miles per hour.
Launched in August 2004, MESSENGER ...
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
The crystal structure of an RNA molecule bound to a protein was used by Purdue and University of Texas at Austin researchers to study a stage of evolution. (Credit: Image courtesy of Barbara Golden, Purdue University Department of Biochemistry)
The crystal structure of a molecule from a primitive fungus has served ...
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
Honey bees with pupal brood cells. Honeybee larvae produce silk to reinforce the wax cells in which they pupate. (Credit: Nick Pitsas, CSIRO)
Moths and butterflies, particularly silkworms, are well known producers of silk. And we all know spiders use it for their webs. But they are not the only invertebrates ...
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Sunday, November 18th, 2007
What do you do when a naturally occurring hormone in your body turns against you? What do you do when that same hormone – melatonin – is a popular supplement you take to help you sleep? A University of Houston professor and his team of researchers may have some answers.
Gregg ...
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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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Saturday, November 3rd, 2007
To isolate bacteria present in swine waste samples, microbiologists Rhonda Zeltwanger and Michael Cotta work in an anaerobic glove box. Because most of these bacteria are strict anaerobes, many manipulations must be performed in the absence of oxygen. (Credit: USDA, Photo by Keith Weller)
Wanted: Bacterium that can eat sugar or ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Arp 87 is a stunning pair of interacting galaxies. Stars, gas and dust flow from the large spiral galaxy, NGC 3808, forming an enveloping arm around its companion. The shapes of both galaxies have been distorted by their gravitational interaction. Arp 87 is located in the constellation of Leo, the ...
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Chemistry professor Thomas Rauchfuss, left, and graduate student Zachariah Heiden have devised a new way to make water. (Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer)
In a familiar high-school chemistry demonstration, an instructor first uses electricity to split liquid water into its constituent gases, hydrogen and oxygen. Then, by combining the two ...
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
An electron micrograph of the pathogen, Leptospira interrogans, which is the cause of leptospirosis. The strain shown in the photo was obtained from a patient with severe leptospirosis in Salvador. (Credit: Image courtesy of Cornell University)
Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College have located a protein they believe is responsible for ...
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