Surge in coal burning may be noticeably dirtying the upper atmosphere
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It is widely known that the brain perceives information before it reaches a person’s awareness. But until now, there was little way to determine what specific mental tasks were taking place prior to the point of conscious awareness. That has now changed.
Using tiny nanodiamonds, researchers have demonstrated an innovative method for delivering and releasing insulin at a specific location over a period of time. The nanodiamond-insulin clusters hold promise for wound-healing applications and could be integrated into gels, ointments, bandages or suture materials.
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Researchers have noted unusual effects on a cell infected by a virus collected from a boiling, acidic spring in Yellowstone.
A new cost-effectiveness study has determined that so-called pretreatment pharmacogenetic testing is only beneficial if dose-reduced treatment is shown to be nearly as effective as the full dose. If the lower dose is as effective, the test could prevent many cases of severe neutropenia, an abnormally low count of an important type of white blood [...]
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When the magnitude 8 Sichuan earthquake struck southern China in May 2008, it left more than 69,000 people dead and 4.3 million homeless. Now ecologists have added to these losses an assessment of the earthquake’s impact on biodiversity. Researchers show that more than 23 percent of the pandas’ habitat in the study area was destroyed, [...]
Moral-ethical and political beliefs color the way people read opinion questions. This ‘coloring’ process takes place well before people become aware of their answers to such questions. This phenomenon was recently discovered through brain measurements.
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A team of astronomers has discovered a group of rare galaxies called the “Green Peas” with the help of citizen scientists working through an online project called Galaxy Zoo. The finding could lend unique insights into how galaxies form stars in the early universe.
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Distinctive patterns of genes turned off — or left on — in healthy versus cancerous cells could enable early screening for many common cancers and maybe help avoid them scientists say.
Significant sea ice formation occurred in the Arctic earlier than previously thought in Earth’s geological history. “The results are also especially exciting because they suggest that sea ice formed in the Arctic before it did in Antarctica, which goes against scientific expectation,” says one of the scientific team members.
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