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• Norwegian Wood For The Ages: 'Mummified' Pine Trees Found
• Could The Hot Stuff In Chili Peppers Ease Your Tingling Nerve Pain?
• Scientists Visualize Assembly Line Gears In Ribosomes, Cell's Protein Factory
• H1N1 Simulation Modeling Shows Rapid Vaccine Rollout Effective In Reducing Infection Rates
• New Material Could Expand Applications And Lower Costs For Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
• Findings About Veracity Of Peripheral Vision Could Lead To Better Robotic Eyes
• Do Three Meals A Day Keep Fungi Away? Protective Effect Of Being Warm-blooded
• No Such Thing As 'Junk RNA,' Say Researchers
• Global Surface Temperature Was Second Warmest For September
• Those With Severe H1N1 At Risk For Pulmonary Emboli, Researchers Find
• Geological Disposal Of High-level Nuclear Waste Feasible
• Can Social Networking Help Consumers Get Healthier?
• New View Of The Heliosphere: Cassini Helps Redraw Shape Of Solar System
• Milestone Discovery In Cell Behaviors
• Tackling Typhoid: First High-throughput Analysis Of Every Salmonella Typhi Gene
• Promising Novel Treatment For Human Cancer -- Chrysanthemum Indicum Extract
• Energy-autonomous Sensors Find Dents And Cracks In Aircraft
• Confronting Bad Behavior: Is There A Social Payoff?

Norwegian Wood For The Ages: 'Mummified' Pine Trees Found Posted: 18 Oct 2009 02:00 PM PDT Norwegian scientists have found "mummified" pine trees, dead for nearly 500 years yet without decomposition.

Could The Hot Stuff In Chili Peppers Ease Your Tingling Nerve Pain? Posted: 18 Oct 2009 02:00 PM PDT Millions of people suffer peripheral pain and other troubling sensations accompanying diseases as varied as diabetes, AIDS, shingles and arthritis. Cancer patients also often suffer these so-called peripheral neuropathies because of their therapies. For afflicted patients, a new review suggests, although not strongly, that four of 10 people could experience some pain relief from topical capsaicin cream. Capsaicin is the active component of chili peppers.

Scientists Visualize Assembly Line Gears In Ribosomes, Cell's Protein Factory Posted: 18 Oct 2009 02:00 PM PDT Even as research on the ribosome, one of the cell's most basic machines, is recognized with a Nobel Prize, scientists continue to achieve new insights on the way ribosomes work. For the first time, scientists have a detailed picture of the ribosome trapped together with elongation factor G (EF-G), one of the enzymes that nudges the assembly line to move forward.

H1N1 Simulation Modeling Shows Rapid Vaccine Rollout Effective In Reducing Infection Rates Posted: 18 Oct 2009 02:00 PM PDT Early action, especially rapid rollout of vaccines, is extremely effective in reducing the attack rate of the H1N1 influenza virus, according to a simulation model of a pandemic outbreak.

New Material Could Expand Applications And Lower Costs For Solid Oxide Fuel Cells Posted: 18 Oct 2009 02:00 PM PDT A new ceramic material could help expand the applications for solid oxide fuel cells -- devices that generate electricity directly from a wide range of liquid or gaseous fuels without the need to separate hydrogen.

Findings About Veracity Of Peripheral Vision Could Lead To Better Robotic Eyes Posted: 18 Oct 2009 02:00 PM PDT Psychology researchers have found that peripheral vision is most important for telling us what type of scene we're looking at. Examining how people take in scene information paves the way for building better robots.

Do Three Meals A Day Keep Fungi Away? Protective Effect Of Being Warm-blooded Posted: 18 Oct 2009 08:00 AM PDT The fact that they eat a lot -- and often -- may explain why most people and other mammals are protected from the majority of fungal pathogens, according to new research.

No Such Thing As 'Junk RNA,' Say Researchers Posted: 18 Oct 2009 08:00 AM PDT Tiny fragments of RNA previously dismissed as cellular junk are actually stable molecules that play a significant role in gene regulation, say researchers. The findings represent the first examination of very small RNA products and could lead to the development of biomarkers to detect and monitor cancer.

Global Surface Temperature Was Second Warmest For September Posted: 18 Oct 2009 08:00 AM PDT The combined global land and ocean surface temperature was the second warmest September on record, according to NOAA. Scientists also reported that the average land surface temperature for September was the second warmest on record, behind 2005. Additionally, the global ocean surface temperature was tied for the fifth warmest on record for September.

Those With Severe H1N1 At Risk For Pulmonary Emboli, Researchers Find Posted: 18 Oct 2009 08:00 AM PDT Researchers have found that patients with severe cases of the H1N1 virus are at risk for developing severe complications, including pulmonary emboli, according to a new study.

Geological Disposal Of High-level Nuclear Waste Feasible Posted: 18 Oct 2009 08:00 AM PDT There is a scientific consensus that safe geological disposal of high-level nuclear waste is technically feasible, while public acceptance has still not been achieved in most Member States. Researchers have analyzed the state of the art of science, technology and procedures needed across the EU for implementation. They have identified no major conceptual or research gap for the host rocks and repository systems envisaged, namely those in clays, hard rocks and salt.

Can Social Networking Help Consumers Get Healthier? Posted: 18 Oct 2009 08:00 AM PDT Can social networking sites help people make wise health decisions? A new study says it depend on people's willingness to take action on the information they gain from the sites.

New View Of The Heliosphere: Cassini Helps Redraw Shape Of Solar System Posted: 18 Oct 2009 02:00 AM PDT The solar system, as defined by the heliosphere, the region of the sun's influence, may have a quite different shape than scientists had thought.

Milestone Discovery In Cell Behaviors Posted: 18 Oct 2009 02:00 AM PDT Molecular scientists have discovered a new, fast mechanism by which cells communicate change -- for example their location during spreading of a cancer in the human body -- to adjacent cells. The discovery sheds new light on cell behaviour and could lead to the development on new drugs to combat diseases such as cancer, rheumatoid arthritis and Alzheimer's disease.

Tackling Typhoid: First High-throughput Analysis Of Every Salmonella Typhi Gene Posted: 18 Oct 2009 02:00 AM PDT For the first time, researchers have looked at the need for every gene in a bacterial cell in just one experiment. They showed that Salmonella Typhi -- which every year infects 22 million people and causes 220,000 deaths -- needs only 356 genes for survival: 4162 genes are not essential. The method, which harnesses next-generation sequencing technologies, will aid the search for weaknesses in bacterial armories, allowing researchers to seek treatments to target those genes.

Promising Novel Treatment For Human Cancer -- Chrysanthemum Indicum Extract Posted: 18 Oct 2009 02:00 AM PDT A research team from China investigated the effects of Chrysanthemum indicum extract (CIE) on inhibition of proliferation and on apoptosis, and the underlying mechanisms, in a human hepatocellular carcinoma MHCC97H cell line. They found CIE exerted a significant apoptotic effect through a mitochondrial pathway and arrested the cell cycle by regulation of cell cycle-related proteins in MHCC97H cells without an effect on normal cells.

Energy-autonomous Sensors Find Dents And Cracks In Aircraft Posted: 18 Oct 2009 02:00 AM PDT Aircraft maintenance will be easier in future, with sensors monitoring the aircraft skin. If they discover any dents or cracks they will send a radio message to a monitoring unit. The energy needed for this will be obtained from temperature differences.

Confronting Bad Behavior: Is There A Social Payoff? Posted: 18 Oct 2009 02:00 AM PDT Suppose you are at a busy playground and you hear an 11-year-old using language he didn't learn on Sesame Street. There are plenty of other adults around, but, apparently, not this child's parents. Do you intervene? Does anyone?

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