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- Heavier Rainstorms Ahead Due To Global Climate Change, Study Predicts
- Certain Colors More Likely To Cause Epileptic Fits, Researchers Find
- Great Tits Eat Bats In Times Of Need
- Prolonged Stress Sparks Endoplasmic Reticulum To Release Calcium Stores And Induce Cell Death In Aging-related Diseases
- SMART-1 Images Crash Scene Of Upcoming LCROSS Impact
- New Ways To Predict Violent Behavior?
- Secrets Of The Sandcastle Worm Could Yield A Powerful Medical Adhesive
- Excess Body Weight Causes Over 124,000 New Cancers A Year In Europe: New Estimates
- Lab Demonstrates 3-D Printing In Glass
- How Disruption Of Spectrin-actin Network Causes Lens Cells In The Eye To Lose Shape
- Silk-based Optical Waveguides Meet Biomedical Needs
- Tired Doctors Make More Mistakes
- Woody Plants Adapted To Past Climate Change More Slowly Than Herbs
- Insulin Boost Restores Muscle Growth In Elderly
- New Take On Why Social Cues Confuse Babies And Dogs In Classic Hiding Game
- Vaccine Expert Advises: Immunization Should Be Given As Early In Life As Possible
- Climate Change Mitigation Strategies Ignore Carbon Cycling Processes Of Inland Waters, Scientists Say
- Young Adults Visit Doctors Least At An Age When Risky Behavior Peaks
| Heavier Rainstorms Ahead Due To Global Climate Change, Study Predicts Posted: 27 Sep 2009 02:00 PM PDT Heavier rainstorms lie in our future. That's the clear conclusion of a new study on the impact that global climate change will have on precipitation patterns. |
| Certain Colors More Likely To Cause Epileptic Fits, Researchers Find Posted: 27 Sep 2009 02:00 PM PDT Researchers have discovered that epileptic brains are more ordered than non-epileptic ones and also that certain flicking colors seem more likely to cause fits. |
| Great Tits Eat Bats In Times Of Need Posted: 27 Sep 2009 02:00 PM PDT Necessity is the mother of invention: Great Tits eat hibernating common pipistrelle bats under harsh conditions of snow cover. This remarkable newly-acquired behaviour was observed by researchers in a cave in Hungary. When the researchers offered the birds alternative feed, they ate it and showed little or no interest in flying into the cave again. |
| Posted: 27 Sep 2009 02:00 PM PDT Scientists can now explain how prolonged stress sparks the endoplasmic reticulum to release its calcium stores, inducing cells to undergo apoptosis in several aging-related diseases. |
| SMART-1 Images Crash Scene Of Upcoming LCROSS Impact Posted: 27 Sep 2009 02:00 PM PDT The European Space Agency's SMART-1 team has released an image of the future impact site of NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS). LCROSS will search for water ice on the Moon by making two impacts into a crater named Cabeus A at the lunar South Pole. The impacts are scheduled for 11:30 and 11:34 am UT on 9 October 2009. |
| New Ways To Predict Violent Behavior? Posted: 27 Sep 2009 02:00 PM PDT In the future, diagnosing severe personality disorders, evaluating the childhood environment, assessing alcohol consumption and the analysis of the MAOA genotype may provide more accurate means for assessing risk among violent offenders, according to the research carried out jointly at the University of Helsinki, Finland. |
| Secrets Of The Sandcastle Worm Could Yield A Powerful Medical Adhesive Posted: 27 Sep 2009 08:00 AM PDT Scientists have copied the natural glue secreted by a tiny sea creature called the sandcastle worm in an effort to develop a long-sought medical adhesive needed to repair bones shattered in battlefield injuries, car crashes and other accidents. |
| Excess Body Weight Causes Over 124,000 New Cancers A Year In Europe: New Estimates Posted: 27 Sep 2009 08:00 AM PDT At least 124,000 new cancers in 2008 in Europe may have been caused by excess body weight, according to estimates from a new modeling study. The proportion of cases of new cancers attributable to a body mass index of 25kg/m2 or more were highest among women and in central European countries such as the Czech Republic, Latvia, Slovenia and Bulgaria. |
| Lab Demonstrates 3-D Printing In Glass Posted: 27 Sep 2009 08:00 AM PDT A team of engineers and artists has developed a way to create glass objects using a conventional 3-D printer. The technique allows a new type of material to be used in such devices. |
| How Disruption Of Spectrin-actin Network Causes Lens Cells In The Eye To Lose Shape Posted: 27 Sep 2009 08:00 AM PDT A network of proteins underlying the plasma membrane keeps epithelial cells in shape and maintains their orderly hexagonal packing in the mouse lens, according to new research. |
| Silk-based Optical Waveguides Meet Biomedical Needs Posted: 27 Sep 2009 08:00 AM PDT Researchers demonstrate a new way to make silk-based optical waveguides that are biocompatible, biodegradable and readily functionalized with active molecules. This opens up opportunities in biologically based modulation and sensing and ability to integrate light delivery in living tissue. |
| Tired Doctors Make More Mistakes Posted: 27 Sep 2009 08:00 AM PDT A study of clinical errors made by resident physicians in a teaching hospital reveals that the more tired they are the more mistakes they make. The study puts figures to this seemingly obvious conclusion and shows that fewer errors are made if clinical practices are standardized. |
| Woody Plants Adapted To Past Climate Change More Slowly Than Herbs Posted: 27 Sep 2009 02:00 AM PDT Can we predict which species will be most vulnerable to climate change by studying how they responded in the past? A new study of flowering plants provides a clue. An analysis of more than 5,000 species reveals that woody plants adapted to past climate change more slowly than herbaceous plants did. If the past is any indicator of the future, woody plants may have a harder time than other plants keeping pace with global warming. |
| Insulin Boost Restores Muscle Growth In Elderly Posted: 27 Sep 2009 02:00 AM PDT Researchers have demonstrated that by increasing insulin levels above the normal range in elderly test subjects, they can restore the impaired muscle-building process responsible for age-related physical weakness. |
| New Take On Why Social Cues Confuse Babies And Dogs In Classic Hiding Game Posted: 27 Sep 2009 02:00 AM PDT A study by developmental scientists challenges the conclusions of two recent studies on how babies and dogs respond to certain social cues. The new findings indicate that babies and dogs may not be as clever as the other studies suggest. |
| Vaccine Expert Advises: Immunization Should Be Given As Early In Life As Possible Posted: 27 Sep 2009 02:00 AM PDT Parents should not be worried that early vaccination would overwhelm their babies, a vaccine expert says. Recent data show that the immune system of newborns is able to respond to a world full of antigens already at birth. Therefore, vaccines should be given as early in life as possible to minimize the risk of damage by a potentially harmful infection, according to an expert in vaccinology and neonatal immunology. |
| Posted: 27 Sep 2009 02:00 AM PDT Scientists argue that current international strategies to mitigate manmade carbon emissions and address climate change have overlooked a critical player -- inland waters. Carbon burial and outgassing by streams, rivers, lakes, reservoirs and wetlands play important roles in the carbon cycle that are unaccounted for in conventional carbon cycling models. |
| Young Adults Visit Doctors Least At An Age When Risky Behavior Peaks Posted: 27 Sep 2009 02:00 AM PDT The prevalence of substance abuse, sexually transmitted diseases, homicide and motor vehicle crashes all peak in young adulthood. Yet a new study's findings show that young adults underuse ambulatory medical care, infrequently receive preventive care and rarely receive counseling directed at the greatest threats to their health. |
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