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New Definition Could Further Limit Habitable Zones Around Distant Suns - 0 views

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Potential for plate tectonics on extrasolar planets to create conditions suitable for the development of life

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Microscopes view molecules for first time // Current - 0 views

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Current.com microscopy molecules molecular structure Transmission Electron Microscope Scanning Tunneling Microscope Atomic Force Microscope Quantum Mechanics IBM

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Scientists Discover Hunger's Timekeeper - 0 views

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Researchers at Columbia and Rockefeller Universities have identified cells in the stomach that regulate the release of a hormone associated with appetite. The group is the first to show that these cells, which release a hormone called ghrelin, are controlled by a circadian clock that is set by mealtime patterns. The finding, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, has implications for the treatment of obesity and is a landmark in the decades-long search for the timekeepers of hunger.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Researchers at Columbia and Rockefeller Universities have identified cells in the stomach that regulate the release of a hormone associated with appetite. The group is the first to show that these cells, which release a hormone called ghrelin, are controlled by a circadian clock that is set by mealtime patterns. The finding, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, has implications for the treatment of obesity and is a landmark in the decades-long search for the timekeepers of hunger.</div>

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If influenza was a stock, I wouldn't touch it. - 0 views

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If influenza was a stock, I wouldn't touch it. PETER GROSS, chief medical officer at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey, responding to a White House report that warned a resurgence of swine flu - or H1N1 - could kill 30,000 to 90,000 Americans this fall

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">If influenza was a stock, I wouldn't touch it. PETER GROSS, chief medical officer at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey, responding to a White House report that warned a resurgence of swine flu - or H1N1 - could kill 30,000 to 90,000 Americans this fall</div>

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Walid Damouny on 26 Aug 09

PETER GROSS, chief medical officer at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey, responding to a White House report that warned a resurgence of swine flu - or H1N1 - could kill 30,000 to 90,000 Americans this fall

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">PETER GROSS, chief medical officer at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey, responding to a White House report that warned a resurgence of swine flu - or H1N1 - could kill 30,000 to 90,000 Americans this fall</div>

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Technology Review: Blogs: Delta-V: How Nasa's New Moon Probe Communicates - 0 views

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What???"Without such a system, it would be nearly impossible to gather the necessary data to find a safe landing site or to properly understand the environmental characteristics relavent (sic) to future human missions"Tell that to the Apollo guys.
- Kepler L on 22 Aug 09
  
  NASA guys are short of funding now.
  
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Visualizing up to ten dimensions - Boing Boing - 0 views

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Grapefruit juice found to give cancer treatment a boost - 0 views

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PhysOrg.com medicine medical health cancer fruits grapefruit rapamycin

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Unlike most beverages, grapefruit juice contains a chemical that boosts the potency of many drugs in the body. To avoid a dangerously high dose of medication, patients are often advised to not wash down pills with grapefruit juice.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Unlike most beverages, grapefruit juice contains a chemical that boosts the potency of many drugs in the body. To avoid a dangerously high dose of medication, patients are often advised to not wash down pills with grapefruit juice.</div>

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What Is The Composition Of Air On Earth? - 0 views

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Epidemic of student cheating can be cured with changes in classroom goals - 1 views

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PhysOrg.com education cheating students study school

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Walid Damouny on 09 Aug 09

Schools have the ability to drastically reduce cheating among their students - all they need to do is follow the relatively simple and inexpensive solutions suggested by research.

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Virtual Worlds May Be the Future Setting of Scientific Collaboration - 0 views

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A team of scientists from the California Institute of Technology, Princeton, Drexel University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have formed the first professional scientific organization based entirely in virtual worlds. Meta Institute for Computational Astrophysics (MICA) conducts professional seminars and popular lectures, among other events, for its growing membership.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">A team of scientists from the California Institute of Technology, Princeton, Drexel University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have formed the first professional scientific organization based entirely in virtual worlds. Meta Institute for Computational Astrophysics (MICA) conducts professional seminars and popular lectures, among other events, for its growing membership.</div>

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Junking old electronic equipment does not compute - 0 views

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PhysOrg.com recycling environmentally friendly pollution electronics

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The box is about 4 feet by 4 feet, and stuffed inside are a few thousand dollars worth of "trash."

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A Quest for Batteries to Alter the Energy Equation - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Racing against other companies around the globe, International Battery isn the front lines of an effort to build smaller, lighter, more powerful batteries that could help transform the American energy economy by replacing gasoline in cars and making windmills and solar cells easier to integrate into the power grid.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Racing against other companies around the globe, International Battery isn the front lines of an effort to build smaller, lighter, more powerful batteries that could help transform the American energy economy by replacing gasoline in cars and making windmills and solar cells easier to integrate into the power grid. </div>

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Scitable | Learn Science at Nature - 0 views

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A free science library and personal learning tool brought to you by Nature Publishing Group, the world's leading publisher of science.

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One in seven scientists say colleagues fake data - Times Online - 0 views

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Faking scientific data and failing to report commercial conflicts of interest are far more prevalent than previously thought, a study suggests.

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Amazing creatures of deep polar waters (photo) - Pravda.Ru - 0 views

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Amazing Photo Essay. Aliens are right here on earth - in our deepest oceans.

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What scientists know about jewel beetle shimmer - 0 views

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"Jewel beetles" are widely known for their glossy external skeletons that appear to change colors as the angle of view changes. Now they may be known for something else--providing a blueprint for materials that reflect light rather than absorbing it to produce colors.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Jewel beetles" are widely known for their glossy external skeletons that appear to change colors as the angle of view changes. Now they may be known for something else--providing a blueprint for materials that reflect light rather than absorbing it to produce colors.</div>

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Ancient Maya Practiced Forest Conservation -- 3,000 Years Ago - 0 views

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PhysOrg.com Maya ecology ecofriendly environmentally friendly forests archaeology

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As published in the July issue of the Journal of Archaeological Science, paleoethnobotanist David Lentz of the University of Cincinnati has concluded that not only did the Maya people practice forest management, but when they abandoned their forest conservation practices it was to the detriment of the entire Maya culture.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">As published in the July issue of the Journal of Archaeological Science, paleoethnobotanist David Lentz of the University of Cincinnati has concluded that not only did the Maya people practice forest management, but when they abandoned their forest conservation practices it was to the detriment of the entire Maya culture.</div>

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First View of the Dark Side of the Sun | Wired Science | Wired.com - 0 views

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First View of the Dark Side Sun | Wired Science Wired.com astronomy

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Professor hatches century-old eggs to study evolution - 0 views

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PhysOrg.com biology ecology evolution

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Suspending a life in time is a theme that normally finds itself in the pages of science fiction, but now such ideas have become a reality in the annals of science.

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Learning from apes - Boing Boing - 0 views

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