The imaging system on board the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter recently had its first of many opportunities to photograph five of the six Apollo landing sites, just days before the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission.
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A new study concludes that increased fish consumption is related to lower rates of dementia in elderly living in low- to middle-income countries.
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The Wildlife Conservation Society has announced that critically endangered alligators in China have a new chance for survival. The reintroduced alligators are now multiplying on their own.
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Just like a conductor cueing musicians in an orchestra, Fgf10, a member of the fibroblast growth factor (Ffg) family of morphogens, lets brain stem cells know that the moment to get to work has arrived, ensuring that they hit their first developmental milestone on time.
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Computer scientists have turned a tedious manual labeling task into an online multi-player game which can help businesses tackle spammers.
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New research demonstrates that single neurons in the reward center of the brain process not only primitive rewards but also more abstract, cognitive rewards related to the quest for information about the future. The study enhances our understanding of learning and suggests that current theories of reward should be revised to include the effect of [...]
Previous studies have found that post-menopausal women who have taken a combined estrogen and progestin hormone replacement therapy have increased their risk of developing progestin-accelerated breast tumors. Now researchers have found that curcumin, a popular Indian spice derived from the turmeric root, could reduce the cancer risk for women after exposure to hormone replacement therapy.
A team of scientists has identified no less than 3,600 molecular switches in the human body. These switches, which regulate protein functions, may prove to be a crucial factor in human aging and the onset and treatment of diseases such as cancer, Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease.
A lunar geochemist says that there are still many answers to be gleaned from the moon rocks collected by the Apollo 11 astronauts on their historic moonwalk 40 years ago July 20.
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Two specific matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) proteins have been found to contribute to bone metastasis in advanced breast cancer — lending important new insight into the design of clinically useful small molecule inhibitors.
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