Neuro researchers sharpen our understanding of memories - 0 views
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Scientists now have a better understanding of how precise memories are formed
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these findings could help us to better understand memory impairments in neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer's disease
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study looks at the cells in our brains, or neurons, and how they work together as a group to form memories
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ScienceShot: There's Cow in Your Smog - ScienceNOW - 0 views
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people typically blame Southern California's smog on automobiles, a new study suggests that cows may be just as responsible, if not more so
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large fraction of the region's smog, especially the particles smaller than 2.5 micrometers in diameter, is ammonium nitrate
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particles form in the atmosphere when ammonia, which is generated by cars with certain types of catalytic converters and by bacteria that consume cattle waste, reacts with nitrogen oxides that are produced in large quantities in automobile emissions
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Delay Likely for SpaceX's Private Launch to Space Station | Space.com - 0 views
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: 02 May 2012
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SpaceX was targeting the launch for Monday, May 7, but now will likely shift to a later date, possibly May 10
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"At this time, a May 7th launch appears unlikely," SpaceX spokeswoman Kirstin Brost Grantham wrote in a statement. "SpaceX is continuing to work through the software assurance process with NASA. We will issue a statement as soon as a new launch target is set.
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Supermassive Black Hole Swallows Star | Hungry Black Holes | Space.com - 0 views
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star whose death may ultimately provide more clues on the inner workings of the enigmatic gravitational monster that devoured it.
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In June 2010, the researchers spotted a bright flare from the previously dormant black hole at the center of a galaxy approximately 2.7 billion light-years away.
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The flare of light reached peak brightness a month after it was detected, then slowly faded over the next 12 months
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A Star Is Torn - Science News - 0 views
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In spring 2010, NASA’s orbiting Galaxy Evolution Explorer and the ground-based Pan-STARRS telescope observed a suspicious brightening around a supermassive black hole parked more than 2 billion light-years from Earth
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Over the next few months, the flare continued increasing in brightness — then it dimmed
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Scientists now suggest that the light show was evidence of the black hole PS1-10jh shredding a star that wandered too close
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Game on! Researchers use online crowd-sourcing to diagnose malaria - 0 views
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Online crowd-sourcing — in which a task is presented to the public, who respond, for free, with various solutions and suggestions — has been used to evaluate potential consumer products, develop software algorithms and solve vexing research-and-development challenges. But diagnosing infectious diseases
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crowd-sourced online gaming system in which players distinguish malaria-infected red blood cells from healthy ones by viewing digital images obtained from microscopes.
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recognize infectious diseases with the accuracy of trained pathologists
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Invasion of the Noctilucent Clouds - 0 views
It's Time to Welcome Night Shining Clouds - 0 views
Four white dwarf stars caught in the act of consuming 'earth-like' exoplanets - 0 views
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astrophysicists have pinpointed four white dwarf stars surrounded by dust from shattered planetary bodies which once bore striking similarities to the composition of the Earth
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White dwarfs are the final stage of life of stars like our Sun, the residual cores of material left behind after their available fuel for nuclear reactions has been exhausted
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researchers found that the most frequently occurring elements in the dust around these four white dwarfs were oxygen, magnesium, iron and silicon – the four elements that make up roughly 93 per cent of the Earth.
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2012 Venus Transit - The Countdown Is On! - 0 views
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On June 5 (June 6 in Australia and Asia), it will pass between the Earth and Sun… an event which only happens about twice and century and won’t happen again until the year 2117!
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now is the time to begin your preparations to view the transit of Venus.
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Because the transit of Venus is such a rare event, many retailers are carrying special eclipse/transit viewing glasses
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Alien Super-Earth Light Seen for 1st Time | Exoplanet Search | Space.com - 0 views
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Light from an alien "super-Earth" twice the size of our own Earth has been detected by a NASA space telescope for the first time
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spotted light from the alien planet 55 Cancri e, which orbits a star 41 light-years from Earth
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A year on the extrasolar planet lasts just 18 hours
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