Severity of H1N1 Influenza Linked to Presence of Streptococcus Pneumoniae

Severity of H1N1 Influenza Linked to Presence of Streptococcus Pneumoniae

  7:06:00 PM    Science Lover

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The presence of the Streptococcus pneumoniae in samples that can be easily obtained in clinics and emergency rooms may predict risk of severe disease in H1N1 pandemic influenza. Streptococcus pneumoniae bacterial colonies. (Credit: CDC/Dr. Richard Facklam)Reports that H1N1...

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People With Generalized Anxiety Disorder

People With Generalized Anxiety Disorder

  1:17:00 AM    Science Lover

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Scrambled connections between the part of the brain that processes fear and emotion and other brain regions could be the hallmark of a common anxiety disorder, according to a new study from the Stanford University School of Medicine. The findings could help researchers...

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Synesthetic Experiences, Such as Seeing a Certain Color Associated With a Number, Are Real and Automatic

Synesthetic Experiences, Such as Seeing a Certain Color Associated With a Number, Are Real and Automatic

  9:57:00 AM    Science Lover

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For as many as 1 in 20 people, everyday experiences can elicit extra-ordinary associated sensations. The condition is known as synaesthesia and the most common form involves "seeing" colours when reading words and numbers. Many previous studies have shown that the brains...

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First Volume of Microbial Encyclopedia Published

First Volume of Microbial Encyclopedia Published

  11:27:00 PM    Science Lover

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The Earth is estimated to have about a nonillion (1030) microbes in, on, around, and under it, comprised of an unknown but very large number of distinct species. Despite the widespread availability of microbial genome data -- close to 2,000 microbes have been and are being...

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Broken Genomes Behind Breast Cancers, Research Finds

Broken Genomes Behind Breast Cancers, Research Finds

  11:26:00 PM    Science Lover

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The first detailed search of breast cancer genomes to uncover genomic rearrangements is published December 23. The team characterised the ways in which the human genome is broken and put back together in 24 cases of breast cancer. Breast cancer cell. (Credit: Lorna McInroy,...

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Scientists Map Speed of Climate Change for Different Ecosystems

Scientists Map Speed of Climate Change for Different Ecosystems

  11:44:00 AM    Science Lover

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From beetles to barnacles, pikas to pine warblers, many species are already on the move in response to shifting climate regimes. But how fast will they -- and their habitats -- have to move to keep pace with global climate change over the next century? In a new study, a...

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Glitter-Sized Solar Photovoltaics Could Revolutionize the Way Solar Energy Is Collected and Used

Glitter-Sized Solar Photovoltaics Could Revolutionize the Way Solar Energy Is Collected and Used

  1:21:00 AM    Science Lover

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Sandia National Laboratories scientists have developed tiny glitter-sized photovoltaic cells that could revolutionize the way solar energy is collected and used. Representative thin crystalline-silicon photovoltaic cells -- these are from 14 to 20 micrometers thick and...

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Hubbles Festive View of a Grand Star-Forming Region

Hubbles Festive View of a Grand Star-Forming Region

  6:09:00 PM    Science Lover

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Just in time for the holidays: a Hubble Space Telescope picture postcard of hundreds of brilliant blue stars wreathed by warm, glowing clouds. The festive portrait is the most detailed view of the largest stellar nursery in our local galactic neighborhood. The massive,...

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Why Does a Human Baby Need a Full Year Before Starting to Walk?

Why Does a Human Baby Need a Full Year Before Starting to Walk?

  1:09:00 AM    Science Lover

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Why does a human baby need a full year before it can start walking, while a newborn foal gets up on its legs almost directly after birth? Scientist have assumed that human motor development is unique because our brain is unusually complex and because it is particularly...

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First Evidence Of Virus In Malignant Prostate Cells: XMRV Retrovirus Linked To More Aggressive Tumors

First Evidence Of Virus In Malignant Prostate Cells: XMRV Retrovirus Linked To More Aggressive Tumors

  9:53:00 PM    Science Lover

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In a finding with potentially major implications for identifying a viral cause of prostate cancer, researchers at the University of Utah and Columbia University medical schools have reported that a type of virus known to cause leukemia and sarcomas in animals has been found...

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Synthetic Red Blood Cells Developed: Red-Blood-Cell-Like Particles Carry Oxygen, Drugs, and More

Synthetic Red Blood Cells Developed: Red-Blood-Cell-Like Particles Carry Oxygen, Drugs, and More

  12:54:00 AM    Science Lover

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Scientists at UC Santa Barbara, in collaboration with scientists at University of Michigan, have developed synthetic particles that closely mimic the characteristics and key functions of natural red blood cells, including softness, flexibility, and the ability to carry...

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Food Emits Anti-Hunger Aromas During Chewing

Food Emits Anti-Hunger Aromas During Chewing

  10:13:00 AM    Science Lover

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A real possibility does exist for developing a new generation of foods that make people feel full by releasing anti-hunger aromas during chewing, scientists in the Netherlands are reporting after a review of research on that topic. Such foods would fight the global epidemic...

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Heart Cells on Lab Chip Display 'Nanosense' That Guides Behavior

Heart Cells on Lab Chip Display 'Nanosense' That Guides Behavior

  11:30:00 PM    Science Lover

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Johns Hopkins biomedical engineers, working with colleagues in Korea, have produced a laboratory chip with nanoscopic grooves and ridges capable of growing cardiac tissue that more closely resembles natural heart muscle. Surprisingly, heart cells cultured in this way used...

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Scientists Decode Memory-Forming Brain Cell Conversations

Scientists Decode Memory-Forming Brain Cell Conversations

  12:37:00 AM    Science Lover

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The conversations neurons have as they form and recall memories have been decoded by Medical College of Georgia scientists. Artist's rendering of neurons. (Credit: iStockphoto)The breakthrough in recognizing in real time the formation and recollection of a memory opens...

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Looking for Life in the Multiverse: Scientific American

Looking for Life in the Multiverse: Scientific American

  12:31:00 AM    Science Lover

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Key Concepts Multiple other universes—each with its own laws of physics—may have emerged from the same primordial vacuum that gave rise to ours.Assuming they exist, many of those universes may contain intricate structures and perhaps even some forms of life.These findings suggest that our universe may not be as “finely tuned” for the emergence of life as previously thought.Looking for Life...

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A new microscopic system devised

A new microscopic system devised

  12:08:00 AM    Science Lover

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A new microscopic system devised by researchers in MIT's department of materials science and engineering could provide a novel method for moving tiny objects inside a microchip, and could also provide new insights into how cells and other objects are propelled around within...

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Bacteria Shed Light on Human Decision-Making?

Bacteria Shed Light on Human Decision-Making?

  10:00:00 PM    Science Lover

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Scientists studying how bacteria under stress collectively weigh and initiate different survival strategies say they have gained new insights into how humans make strategic decisions that affect their health, wealth and the fate of others in society. Colonies of billions...

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Nerve-Cell Transplants Help Brain-Damaged Rats Fully Recover Lost Ability to Learn

Nerve-Cell Transplants Help Brain-Damaged Rats Fully Recover Lost Ability to Learn

  10:34:00 AM    Science Lover

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Nerve cells transplanted into brain-damaged rats helped them to fully recover their ability to learn and remember, probably by promoting nurturing, protective growth factors, according to a new study. Location of hippocampus in the human brain. Researchers transplanted...

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Earth's Atmosphere Came from Outer Space, Scientists Find

Earth's Atmosphere Came from Outer Space, Scientists Find

  10:22:00 AM    Science Lover

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The gases which formed the Earth's atmosphere -- and probably its oceans -- did not come from inside the Earth but from outer space, according to a study by University of Manchester and University of Houston scientists. New research suggests that the gases which formed...

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Bacteria Engineered to Turn Carbon Dioxide Into Liquid Fuel

Bacteria Engineered to Turn Carbon Dioxide Into Liquid Fuel

  10:18:00 AM    Science Lover

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Global climate change has prompted efforts to drastically reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas produced by burning fossil fuels. Genetically engineered strains of the cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus in a Petri dish. (Credit: Image courtesy of University...

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Paper, Nanotube Ink, Wires: Instant Battery

Paper, Nanotube Ink, Wires: Instant Battery

  10:15:00 AM    Science Lover

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Stanford scientists are harnessing nanotechnology to quickly produce ultra-lightweight, bendable batteries and supercapacitors in the form of everyday paper. Bing Hu, a post-doctoral fellow, prepares a small square of ordinary paper to with an ink that will deposit nanotubes...

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Earth More Sensitive to Carbon Dioxide Than Previously Thought

Earth More Sensitive to Carbon Dioxide Than Previously Thought

  4:46:00 PM    Science Lover

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In the long term, the Earth's temperature may be 30-50% more sensitive to atmospheric carbon dioxide than has previously been estimated, reports a new study published in Nature Geoscience. The temperature response of the Earth (in degrees C) to an increase in atmospheric...

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New Nano-Material May Revolutionize Solar Panels and Batteries

New Nano-Material May Revolutionize Solar Panels and Batteries

  11:03:00 PM    Science Lover

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A coating on windows or solar panels that repels grime and dirt? Expanded battery storage capacities for the next electric car? New Tel Aviv University research, just published in Nature Nanotechnology, details a breakthrough in assembling peptides at the nano-scale level...

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Synthetic Magnetic Fields Trick Neutral Atoms Into Acting as If Electrically Charged

Synthetic Magnetic Fields Trick Neutral Atoms Into Acting as If Electrically Charged

  12:27:00 AM    Science Lover

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Achieving an important new capability in ultracold atomic gases, researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute, a collaboration of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland, have created "synthetic" magnetic fields for ultracold...

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First Transgenic Prairie Voles May Help Unlock Secrets of Pair Bonding

First Transgenic Prairie Voles May Help Unlock Secrets of Pair Bonding

  1:00:00 AM    Science Lover

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Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, have successfully generated the first transgenic prairie voles, an important step toward unlocking the genetic secrets of pair bonding. The future application of this technology will enable scientists...

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Scientists Explain Puzzling Lake Asymmetry on Saturn's Moon Titan

Scientists Explain Puzzling Lake Asymmetry on Saturn's Moon Titan

  11:42:00 PM    Science Lover

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Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) suggest that the eccentricity of Saturn's orbit around the sun may be responsible for the unusually uneven distribution of methane and ethane lakes over the northern and southern polar regions of the planet's...

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Solar Power from Your Windows, Awnings, Even Clothing?

Solar Power from Your Windows, Awnings, Even Clothing?

  1:27:00 AM    Science Lover

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On a 104-degree Friday in July when sunlight bathed The University of Arizona campus, doctoral student Dio Placencia sat before a noisy vacuum chamber in the Chemical Sciences Building trying to advance the renewable energy revolution.  An organic photovoltaic cell...

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RNA Network Seen in Live Bacterial Cells for First Time

RNA Network Seen in Live Bacterial Cells for First Time

  12:49:00 AM    Science Lover

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Scientists who study RNA have faced a formidable roadblock: trying to examine RNA's movements in a living cell when they can't see the RNA. Now, a new technology has given scientists the first look ever at RNA in a live bacteria cell -- a sight that could offer new information...

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First Genetic Map of Han Chinese May Aid Search for Disease Susceptibility Genes

First Genetic Map of Han Chinese May Aid Search for Disease Susceptibility Genes

  1:30:00 AM    Science Lover

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The first genetic historical map of the Han Chinese, the largest ethnic population in the world, as they migrated from south to north over evolutionary time, was published online November 25 in the American Journal of Human Genetics by scientists at the Genome Institute...

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Bioengineers Succeed in Producing Plastics Without the Use of Fossil Fuels

Bioengineers Succeed in Producing Plastics Without the Use of Fossil Fuels

  12:34:00 AM    Science Lover

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A team of pioneering South Korean scientists have succeeded in producing the polymers used for everyday plastics through bioengineering, rather than through the use of fossil fuel based chemicals. This groundbreaking research, which may now allow for the production of environmentally...

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New Hydrogen-Storage Method Discovered

New Hydrogen-Storage Method Discovered

  1:11:00 AM    Science Lover

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Scientists at the Carnegie Institution have found for the first time that high pressure can be used to make a unique hydrogen-storage material. The discovery paves the way for an entirely new way to approach the hydrogen-storage problem. This schematic shows the structure...

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Alzheimer's Disease : Analyzing Structural Brain Changes

Alzheimer's Disease : Analyzing Structural Brain Changes

  5:20:00 PM    Science Lover

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In a study that promises to improve diagnosis and monitoring of Alzheimer's disease, scientists at the University of California, San Diego have developed a fast and accurate method for quantifying subtle, sub-regional brain volume loss using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Serial...

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Brain Disease 'Resistance Gene' Evolves in Papua New Guinea Community; Could Offer Insights Into CJD

Brain Disease 'Resistance Gene' Evolves in Papua New Guinea Community; Could Offer Insights Into CJD

  2:40:00 AM    Science Lover

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A community in Papua New Guinea that suffered a major epidemic of a CJD-like fatal brain disease called kuru has developed strong genetic resistance to the disease, according to new research by Medical Research Council (MRC) scientists. Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease...

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Cigarettes Harbor Many Pathogenic Bacteria

Cigarettes Harbor Many Pathogenic Bacteria

  12:11:00 AM    Science Lover

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Cigarettes are "widely contaminated" with bacteria, including some known to cause disease in people, concludes a new international study conducted by a University of Maryland environmental health researcher and microbial ecologists at the Ecole Centrale de Lyon in France. Cigarettes...

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Potential Treatment for Huntington's Disease

Potential Treatment for Huntington's Disease

  1:58:00 AM    Science Lover

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Investigators at Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham), the University of British Columbia's Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics and the University of California, San Diego have found that normal synaptic activity in nerve cells (the electrical activity...

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Gene Therapy Can Improve Muscle Mass And Strength In Monkeys, Research Suggests

Gene Therapy Can Improve Muscle Mass And Strength In Monkeys, Research Suggests

  12:51:00 AM    Science Lover

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A study appearing in Science Translational Medicine puts scientists one step closer to clinical trials to test a gene delivery strategy to improve muscle mass and function in patients with certain degenerative muscle disorders. Cynomolgus macaque. New research in these...

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LCROSS Impact Analysis Indicates Water On Moon

LCROSS Impact Analysis Indicates Water On Moon

  1:30:00 AM    Science Lover

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The argument that the moon is a dry, desolate place no longer holds water. The visible camera image showing the ejecta plume at about 20 seconds after impact. (Credit: Image courtesy of NASA) Secrets the moon has been holding, for perhaps billions of years, are now being...

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Two Earth-sized Bodies With Oxygen Rich Atmospheres Found, But They're Stars Not Planets

Two Earth-sized Bodies With Oxygen Rich Atmospheres Found, But They're Stars Not Planets

  1:05:00 AM    Science Lover

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Astrophysicists at the University of Warwick and Kiel University have discovered two earth sized bodies with oxygen rich atmospheres -- however there is a bit of a disappointing snag for anyone looking for a potential home for alien life, or even a future home for ourselves,...

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Large People Prone To Enlarged Hearts: Obesity Leading Risk Factor Of Left Atrial Enlargement During Aging

Large People Prone To Enlarged Hearts: Obesity Leading Risk Factor Of Left Atrial Enlargement During Aging

  9:52:00 AM    Science Lover

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Image via Wikipedia Aside from aging itself, obesity appears to be the most powerful predictor of left atrial enlargement (LAE), upping one's risk of atrial fibrillation (the most common type of arrhythmia), stroke and death, according to findings published in the November...

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Controversial New Climate Change Data: Is Earth's Capacity To Absorb CO2 Much Greater Than Expected?

Controversial New Climate Change Data: Is Earth's Capacity To Absorb CO2 Much Greater Than Expected?

  3:27:00 PM    Science Lover

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New data show that the balance between the airborne and the absorbed fraction of carbon dioxide has stayed approximately constant since 1850, despite emissions of carbon dioxide having risen from about 2 billion tons a year in 1850 to 35 billion tons a year now. New data...

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