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Science News hand picked by the Labspaces.net communityhttp://www.labspaces.net/ Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:27:46 -0500http://www.labspaces.net/ http://www.labspaces.net/images/badge_large.png <table> <tr><td> <img src="/images/news/Human_embryonic_stem_cell_colony_phase.jpg" width="80" height="69.866666666667" border="0" /> </td><td> Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have discovered how exposure to arsenic can turn normal stem cells into cancer stem cells and spur tumor growth. Inorganic arsenic, which affects the drinking water of millions of people worldwide, has been previously shown to be a human carcinogen. A growing body of evidence suggests that cancer is a stem-cell based disease. Normal stem cells are e </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: NIH/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences - Discipline: Cancerhttp://www.labspaces.net/118979/Arsenic_turns_stem_cells_cancerous__spurring_tumor_growth Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:15:01 -0500 <table> <tr><td> <img src="/images/news/42378_web.jpg" width="80" height="75.2" border="0" /> </td><td> You are what you eat is truism that has been given new impetus by 'cutting edge' research led by the University of Leicester that reveals your teeth are literally shaped by your food. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: University of Leicester - Discipline: Evolutionhttp://www.labspaces.net/118978/Incisive_research_links_teeth_with_diet Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:00:01 -0500 <table> <tr><td> <img src="/images/news/DNA_Repair.jpg" width="80" height="102.66666666667" border="0" /> </td><td> Genetic mutations in cancer cells can lead to resistance to treatment, thereby potentially resulting in relapse. However, a new article, published April 3 in the magazine section of the online, open-access journal PLoS Biology, suggests that the converse may also happen. Steven Frank from the University of California, Irvine, and Marsha Rosner from the University of Chicago, propose that it </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: Public Library of Science - Discipline: Cancerhttp://www.labspaces.net/118977/How_do_cancers_become_resistant_to_chemotherapy_ Wed, 04 Apr 2012 13:45:02 -0500 <table> <tr><td> <img src="http://www.labspaces.net/images/news/shutterstock_67113391.jpg" width="80" height="58.133333333333" border="0" /> </td><td> An international team of scientists has created an innovative tool for teaching the fundamentals of epidemiology?the science of how infectious diseases move through a population. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: Public Library of Science - Discipline: Epidemiologyhttp://www.labspaces.net/118976/Researchers_use_a_game_to_change_how_scientists_study_outbreaks Wed, 04 Apr 2012 13:30:01 -0500 <table> <tr><td> <img src="/images/news/843474___code__.jpg" width="80" height="53.333333333333" border="0" /> </td><td> A study in this week's PLoS Medicine suggests that increasing height and, among women who have never taken menopausal hormone therapy, increased body mass index are risk factors for developing ovarian cancer. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: Public Library of Science - Discipline: Cancerhttp://www.labspaces.net/118975/Increasing_height_and_body_mass_index_are_risk_factors_for_ovarian_cancer Wed, 04 Apr 2012 13:15:01 -0500 <table> <tr><td> <img src="/images/news/Simvastatin_Structural_Formulae.jpg" width="80" height="64.266666666667" border="0" /> </td><td> A cholesterol drug commonly prescribed to reduce cardiovascular disease risk restores blood vessel function in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease, according to a study in the April 4 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. The drug simvastatin (Zocor?) ? which works by slowing cholesterol production ? also improves learning and memory in adult, but not aged Alzheimer's mode </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: Society for Neuroscience - Discipline: Neurosciencehttp://www.labspaces.net/118974/Cholesterol_drug_shows_benefit_in_animal_study_of_Alzheimer_s_disease Wed, 04 Apr 2012 13:00:01 -0500 <table> <tr><td> A guide to what data mining, how it works, and why it's important. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: The Atlantic - Discipline: Internethttp://www.labspaces.net/118973/Everything_You_Wanted_to_Know_About_Data_Mining_but_Were_Afraid_to_Ask Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:11:36 -0500 <table> <tr><td> <img src="/images/news/42396_web.jpg" width="80" height="54.933333333333" border="0" /> </td><td> Epilepsy affects 50 million people worldwide, but in a third of these cases, medication cannot keep seizures from occurring. One solution is to shoot a short pulse of electricity to the brain to stamp out the seizure just as it begins to erupt. But brain implants designed to do this have run into a stubborn problem: too many false alarms, triggering unneeded treatment. To solve this, Johns Hopkin </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: Johns Hopkins University - Discipline: Neurosciencehttp://www.labspaces.net/118972/Early_warning_system_for_seizures_could_cut_false_alarms Wed, 04 Apr 2012 12:45:01 -0500 <table> <tr><td> Two of Adobe's products are unlikely survivors in a period of massive turmoil in the computer industry. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: The Atlantic - Discipline: Internethttp://www.labspaces.net/118971/Flash_and_the_PDF__Computing_s_Last_Great_and_Now_Endangered_Monopolies Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:11:36 -0500 <table> <tr><td> <img src="/images/news/42395_web.jpg" width="80" height="68.266666666667" border="0" /> </td><td> The least expensive way for the Western U.S. to reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to help prevent the worst consequences of global warming is to replace coal with renewable and other sources of energy that may include nuclear power, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, researchers. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: University of California - Berkeley - Discipline: Energyhttp://www.labspaces.net/118970/Advanced_power_grid_research_finds_low_cost__low_carbon_future_in_West Wed, 04 Apr 2012 12:30:02 -0500 <table> <tr><td> Google has demoted its glorious research tool, yet another sign that projects without much revenue are endangered under Larry Page's reign. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: The Atlantic - Discipline: Internethttp://www.labspaces.net/118969/___Services_Google_Thinks_Are_More_Important_Than_Google_Scholar Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:11:36 -0500 <table> <tr><td> <img src="/images/news/843473___code__.jpg" width="80" height="53.454545454545" border="0" /> </td><td> A current controversy raging in evolutionary biology is whether adaptation to new environments is the result of many genes, each of relatively small effect, or just a few genes of large effect. A new study published in Molecular Ecologystrongly supports the first "many-small" hypothesis. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: McGill University - Discipline: Evolutionhttp://www.labspaces.net/118968/Darwin_in_the_genome Wed, 04 Apr 2012 12:15:01 -0500 <table> <tr><td> Intel sounds afraid of the future.?Speaking to PC World yesterday, Intel Product Manager Anand Kajshmanan and media spokesperson Alison Wesley set out in no uncertain terms what the Ultrabook means to Intel. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: FastCompany - Discipline: Technologyhttp://www.labspaces.net/118967/PC_Deathwatch__In_Which_Intel_Begins_to_Sweat Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:11:36 -0500 <table> <tr><td> <img src="/images/news/1021854___atomic__.jpg" width="80" height="60.16" border="0" /> </td><td> The early days of our solar system might look quite different than previously thought, according to research at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory published in Science. The study used more sensitive instruments to find a different half-life for samarium, one of the isotopes used to chart the evolution of the solar system. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: DOE/Argonne National Laboratory - Discipline: Chemistryhttp://www.labspaces.net/118966/New_isotope_measurement_could_alter_history_of_early_solar_system Wed, 04 Apr 2012 12:00:01 -0500 <table> <tr><td> These ticks have become the first organisms to be observed alive in a scanning electron microscope and survive the experience </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: New Scientist - Discipline: Evolutionhttp://www.labspaces.net/118965/World_s_toughest_bugs_survive_electron_beam_and_vacuum Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:11:36 -0500 <table> <tr><td> <img src="/images/news/42386_web.jpg" width="80" height="120" border="0" /> </td><td> Golfers looking to improve their putting may find an advantage in visualizing the hole as bigger, according to a new study from Purdue University. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: Purdue University - Discipline: Psychologyhttp://www.labspaces.net/118964/Golfers_can_improve_their_putt_with_a_different_look Wed, 04 Apr 2012 11:45:01 -0500 <table> <tr><td> The flap over faster-than-light neutrinos will be the first of many </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: New Scientist - Discipline: Physicshttp://www.labspaces.net/118963/Physicists_must_get_used_to_the_limelight Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:11:36 -0500 <table> <tr><td> <img src="http://www.labspaces.net/images/news/rapamycin.jpg" width="80" height="81.066666666667" border="0" /> </td><td> The drug known as rapamycin is widely used by cancer and transplant patients, and there are hints that it might even help us put off old age and live longer. But, it also comes with a downside: rapamycin leads to diabetes in as many as 15 percent of the people who take it. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: Cell Press - Discipline: Healthhttp://www.labspaces.net/118962/How_a_cancer_drug_leads_to_diabetes Wed, 04 Apr 2012 11:30:01 -0500 <table> <tr><td> A proposed change in US legislation would allow everyone to invest in start-ups </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: New Scientist - Discipline: Technologyhttp://www.labspaces.net/118961/Crowdfunding_successes_show_value_of_small_donations Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:11:36 -0500 <table> <tr><td> <img src="http://www.labspaces.net/images/news/Alpha-D-glucose-from-xtal-1979-3D-balls.jpg" width="80" height="86.666666666667" border="0" /> </td><td> New evidence points to a hormone that leaves muscles gobbling up sugar as if they can't get enough. That factor, which can be coaxed out of fat stem cells, could lead to a new treatment to lower blood sugar and improve metabolism, according to a report in the April issue of Cell Metabolism, a Cell Press publication. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: Cell Press - Discipline: Molecular Biologyhttp://www.labspaces.net/118960/New_hormone_for_lowering_blood_sugar Wed, 04 Apr 2012 11:15:01 -0500 <table> <tr><td> Our devices may be too smart for their own good. You watch your TV. But in the near future, your TV may watch you. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: Technology Review - Discipline: Technologyhttp://www.labspaces.net/118959/Is_Your_TV_Spying_on_You_ Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:11:36 -0500 <table> <tr><td> <img src="http://www.labspaces.net/images/news/8153_lores_hepatitis_HCV.jpg" width="80" height="97.066666666667" border="0" /> </td><td> A team led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute has found antibodies that can prevent infection from widely differing strains of hepatitis C virus (HCV) in cell culture and animal models. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: Scripps Research Institute - Discipline: Immunologyhttp://www.labspaces.net/118958/Scientists_find_promising_vaccine_targets_on_hepatitis_C_virus Wed, 04 Apr 2012 11:00:02 -0500 <table> <tr><td> If the universe manufactured carbon so early in its history, then advanced ancient alien minds should be out there, somewhere. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: Discovery Channel News - Discipline: Spacehttp://www.labspaces.net/118957/Could_Ancient_Aliens_Live_on_Methuselah_Planets_ Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:11:36 -0500 <table> <tr><td> <img src="http://www.labspaces.net/images/news/shutterstock_82159063.jpg" width="80" height="96" border="0" /> </td><td> Love it or leave it ? if only it were that simple. According to new research from Concordia University, the Universit? de Montr?al and HEC Montr?al, staying in an organization out of a sense of obligation or for lack of alternatives can lead to emotional exhaustion, a chronic state of physical and mental depletion resulting from continuous stress and excessive job demands. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: Concordia University - Discipline: Psychologyhttp://www.labspaces.net/118956/People_who_feel_they_have_to_stick_with_an_employer_become_more_emotionally_exhausted Wed, 04 Apr 2012 10:45:01 -0500 <table> <tr><td> The frozen carcass of the juvenile animal, nicknamed "Yuka," shows signs of being cut up by ancient people. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: Discovery Channel News - Discipline: Archaeologyhttp://www.labspaces.net/118955/Young_Mammoth_Likely_Butchered_by_Humans Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:11:36 -0500 <table> <tr><td> <img src="/images/news/PET-image.jpg" width="80" height="86.909090909091" border="0" /> </td><td> Children who grow up learning to speak two languages are better at switching between tasks than are children who learn to speak only one language, according to a study funded in part by the National Institutes of Health. However, the study also found that bilinguals are slower to acquire vocabulary than are monolinguals, because bilinguals must divide their time between two languages while monoli </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: NIH/National Institute of Child Health and Human Development - Discipline: Neurosciencehttp://www.labspaces.net/118954/Bilingual_children_switch_tasks_faster_than_speakers_of_a_single_language Wed, 04 Apr 2012 10:30:02 -0500 <table> <tr><td> An amazing dolphin beaching incident filmed on the coast of Brazil provides insight on how to rescue dolphins in distress. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: Discovery Channel News - Discipline: Ecologyhttp://www.labspaces.net/118953/How_to_Rescue_Beached_Dolphins__Video Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:11:36 -0500 <table> <tr><td> <img src="/images/news/PCWmice1.jpg" width="80" height="38.933333333333" border="0" /> </td><td> High fat diets cause damage to blood vessels earlier than previously thought, and these structural and mechanical changes may be the first step in the development of high blood pressure. These findings in mice, by Marie Billaud and colleagues from the University of Virginia School of Medicine in the US, are published online in Springer's Journal of Cardiovascular Translational Research. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: Springer - Discipline: Healthhttp://www.labspaces.net/118952/Mice_fed_a_high_fat_diet_show_signs_of_artery_damage_after_only___weeks Wed, 04 Apr 2012 10:15:01 -0500 <table> <tr><td> Eagle-eyed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson spotted an imperfection in James Cameron's blockbuster film </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: CBSNews - Discipline: Astronomyhttp://www.labspaces.net/118951/Stars_literally_overhauled_for_Titanic__D Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:11:36 -0500 <table> <tr><td> <img src="http://www.labspaces.net/images/news/shutterstock_86205961" width="80" height="89.6" border="0" /> </td><td> People who are excluded by others online, such as on Facebook, may feel just as bad as if they had been excluded in person, according to researchers at Penn State and Misericordia University. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: Penn State - Discipline: Psychologyhttp://www.labspaces.net/118950/Being_ignored_online_or_in_person__it_s_still_exclusion Wed, 04 Apr 2012 10:00:01 -0500 <table> <tr><td> Synthetic legs have become a medium for self-expression, thanks to customization made possible by sophisticated technology. It's a bold melding of modern science and fashion statement.SAN FRANCISCO ? We can rebuild him. We have the technology. We can make him better than he was. Better ? stronger ? faster. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: L.A. Times - Discipline: Healthhttp://www.labspaces.net/118949/Prosthetics_get_the_personal_touch Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:11:36 -0500 <table> <tr><td> <img src="http://www.labspaces.net/images/news/shutterstock_54875629.jpg" width="80" height="80" border="0" /> </td><td> Physicists have recently devised a new method for handling the effect of the interplay between vibrations and electrons on electronic transport. Their paper is about to be published in EPJ B?. This study, led by scientists from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, and the Centre for Computational Science and Engineering at the National University of Singapore, could have implications for quantum </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: Springer - Discipline: Physicshttp://www.labspaces.net/118948/Quantum_information_motion_control_is_now_improved Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:45:01 -0500 <table> <tr><td> Influenza studies debated in the wake of new recommendations from U.S. biosecurity panel </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: Science - Discipline: Science Politicshttp://www.labspaces.net/118947/Free_to_Speak__Kawaoka_Reveals_Flu_Details_While_Fouchier_Stays_Mum Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:11:36 -0500 <table> <tr><td> <img src="/images/news/42375_web.jpg" width="80" height="120" border="0" /> </td><td> The color and scent of flowers and their perception by pollinator insects are believed to have evolved in the course of mutual adaptation. However, an evolutionary biologist from the University of Zurich has now proved that this is not the case with the arum family at least, which evolved its scent analogously to the pre-existing scents of scarab beetles and thus adapted to the beetles unilaterall </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: University of Zurich - Discipline: Evolutionhttp://www.labspaces.net/118946/Plants_mimic_scent_of_pollinating_beetles Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:30:01 -0500 <table> <tr><td> Unique structures give mallards their wide variety of hues </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: Science - Discipline: Evolutionhttp://www.labspaces.net/118945/ScienceShot__Flashed_by_a_Duck Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:11:36 -0500 <table> <tr><td> <img src="/images/news/42373_web.jpg" width="80" height="59.733333333333" border="0" /> </td><td> Neutrophil granulocytes comprise important defences for the immune system. When pathogenic bacteria penetrate the body, they are the first on the scene to mobilise other immune cells via signal molecules, thereby containing the risk. To this end, they release serine proteases ? enzymes that cut up other proteins to activate signal molecules. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - Discipline: Immunologyhttp://www.labspaces.net/118944/New_immune_defense_enzyme_discovered Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:15:05 -0500 <table> <tr><td> <img src="http://www.labspaces.net/images/news/800px-Kaposi_sarcoma_high_mag.jpg" width="80" height="53.333333333333" border="0" /> </td><td> Kaposi's sarcoma herpesvirus (KSHV) is a human tumor virus and an etiological agent for Kaposi's sarcoma and primary effusion lymphoma (PEL). PELs are aggressive lymphomas with reported median survival time shorter than six months after diagnosis. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: University of Helsinki - Discipline: Cancerhttp://www.labspaces.net/118943/Viral_replication_impedes_the_efficacy_of_a_targeted_therapy_against_virus_induced_lymphomas Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:00:05 -0500 <table> <tr><td> There's a massive telescope on the drawing board that hasn't even started construction yet, but when it's finished in 2024, it'll generate more data in a single day than the entire Internet. The computing giant IBM is collaborating with ASTRON (the Netherlands Institute of Radio Astronomy) to develop the next-generation computer tech needed to handle the colossal amount of data captured by the Square Kilometer Array (SKA), </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: CNN - Discipline: Astronomyhttp://www.labspaces.net/118942/IBM_telescope_would_create_more_data_than_Internet_ Tue, 03 Apr 2012 08:48:59 -0500 <table> <tr><td> <img src="http://www.labspaces.net/images/news/1260787_hand_on_keyboard.jpg" width="80" height="53.333333333333" border="0" /> </td><td> The surveyed women spend an average of 81 minutes per day on Facebook, whereas men spend 64 minutes. Low educated groups and low income groups who spend more time on Facebook also report feeling less happy and less content with their lives. This relationship between time spent on Facebook and well-being is also salient for women, but not for men. These are some of the results of Sweden's largest F </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: University of Gothenburg - Discipline: Internethttp://www.labspaces.net/118941/A_survey_of_______Swedish_Facebook_users Tue, 03 Apr 2012 16:00:01 -0500 <table> <tr><td> Killer asteroids are a somewhat remote danger, but they are possible and can deal Earth what amounts to an extinction-level event. The dinosaurs didn't escape that fate, and it would be shame (to say the least) if we humans, with our larger brains and space programs, didn't fare better. But avoiding death by asteroid requires commitment, and some tough decisions we need to make now. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: Wired - Discipline: Spacehttp://www.labspaces.net/118940/We_Can_Survive_Killer_Asteroids_____But_It_Won___t_Be_Easy Tue, 03 Apr 2012 08:48:59 -0500 <table> <tr><td> <img src="/images/news/Old_Bark_&_leaves_I_IMG_8671.jpg" width="80" height="53.333333333333" border="0" /> </td><td> New research from the University of Adelaide could help protect one of the world's most globally threatened tree species - the big leaf mahogany - from extinction. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: University of Adelaide - Discipline: Ecologyhttp://www.labspaces.net/118939/Pollen_can_protect_mahogany_from_extinction Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:45:01 -0500 <table> <tr><td> Social networks and the app ecosystems that surround them may find themselves at odds over user privacy. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: The Atlantic - Discipline: Technologyhttp://www.labspaces.net/118938/Deconstructing_the_Creepiness_of_the__Girls_Around_Me__App_and_What_Facebook_Could_Do_About_It Tue, 03 Apr 2012 08:48:59 -0500 <table> <tr><td> <img src="http://www.labspaces.net/images/news/868934_kids_fun_with_the_playground.jpg" width="80" height="106.66666666667" border="0" /> </td><td> The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that pediatric healthcare providers promote active healthy living by encouraging children to play outside as much as possible. Being outdoors correlates strongly with physical activity for children, which is important for preventing obesity in the preschool years and on through adulthood. A new study led by Pooja Tandon, MD, </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: Seattle Children's - Discipline: Healthhttp://www.labspaces.net/118937/Nearly_half_of_preschool_children_not_taken_outside_to_play_by_parents_on_a_daily_basis Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:30:01 -0500 <table> <tr><td> The happier you are, the better, right? Not necessarily. Studies show that there is a darker side to feeling good and that the pursuit of happiness can sometimes make you .?.?. well, less happy. Too much cheerfulness can make you gullible, selfish, less successful ? and that?s only the tip of the iceberg. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: Washington Post - Discipline: Psychologyhttp://www.labspaces.net/118936/Too_much_happiness_can_make_you_unhappy__studies_show Tue, 03 Apr 2012 08:48:59 -0500 <table> <tr><td> <img src="http://www.labspaces.net/images/news/shutterstock_82159063.jpg" width="80" height="96" border="0" /> </td><td> Early life emotional trauma may stunt intellectual development, indicates the first long term study of its kind, published online in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: BMJ-British Medical Journal - Discipline: Psychologyhttp://www.labspaces.net/118935/Early_life_emotional_trauma_may_stunt_intellectual_development_ Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:15:01 -0500 <table> <tr><td> A report card released on Tuesday ranking the relative health of people in more than 3,000 counties in the United States found that those with more college-educated residents had fewer premature deaths and fewer reports of being in poor or fair health. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: MSNBC - Discipline: Healthhttp://www.labspaces.net/118934/Want_to_be_healthier__Go_to_college__study_finds Tue, 03 Apr 2012 08:48:59 -0500 <table> <tr><td> <img src="/images/news/42359_web.jpg" width="80" height="80" border="0" /> </td><td> There's more to the cosmos than meets the eye. About 80 percent of the matter in the universe is invisible to telescopes, yet its gravitational influence is manifest in the orbital speeds of stars around galaxies and in the motions of clusters of galaxies. Yet, despite decades of effort, no one knows what this "dark matter" really is. Many scientists think it's likely that the mystery will be solv </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center - Discipline: Astronomyhttp://www.labspaces.net/118933/Fermi_observations_of_dwarf_galaxies_provide_new_insights_on_dark_matter Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:00:01 -0500 <table> <tr><td> This image of the eastern US taken from the International Space Station shows that when the sun goes down, the Big Apple is far from alone </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: New Scientist - Discipline: Spacehttp://www.labspaces.net/118932/See_the_cities_that_never_sleep_from_space Tue, 03 Apr 2012 08:48:59 -0500 <table> <tr><td> <img src="/images/news/PET-image.jpg" width="80" height="86.909090909091" border="0" /> </td><td> According to new research conducted at Oregon Health & Science University, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is more than one disorder. It's an entire family of disorders, much like the multiple subtypes of cancer. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: Oregon Health & Science University - Discipline: Neurosciencehttp://www.labspaces.net/118931/What_do_ADHD_and_cancer_have_in_common__Variety Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:45:01 -0500 <table> <tr><td> The US National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity revises its recommendations on two H5N1 flu studies after revisions to the manuscripts </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: New Scientist - Discipline: Science Politicshttp://www.labspaces.net/118930/Controversial_flu_studies_cleared_for_publication Tue, 03 Apr 2012 08:48:59 -0500 <table> <tr><td> <img src="http://www.labspaces.net/images/news/shutterstock_74531899.jpg" width="80" height="47.733333333333" border="0" /> </td><td> When we try to put ourselves in someone else's shoes, we usually go all the way, assuming that they feel the same way we do. But a new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that we have limits: we don't extend this projection to people who have different political views, even under extreme circumstances. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: Association for Psychological Science - Discipline: Psychologyhttp://www.labspaces.net/118929/Empathy_doesn_t_extend_across_the_political_aisle Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:30:01 -0500 <table> <tr><td> Stick an object inside a grid of these little electronic cubes, and they automatically create a copy </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: New Scientist - Discipline: Materials Sciencehttp://www.labspaces.net/118928/_Smart_sand__builds_copies_of_objects Tue, 03 Apr 2012 08:48:59 -0500 <table> <tr><td> <img src="http://www.labspaces.net/images/news/713px-House_Sparrow,_England_-_May_09.jpg" width="80" height="67.2" border="0" /> </td><td> Sparrows in San Francisco's Presidio district changed their tune to soar above the increasing cacophony of car horns and engine rumbles, details new George Mason University research in the April edition of "Animal Behaviour." The study, "Birdsongs Keep Pace with City Life: Changes in Song Over Time in an Urban Songbird Affects Communication," compares birdsongs from as far back as 1969 </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: George Mason University - Discipline: Animal Behaviorhttp://www.labspaces.net/118927/Sparrows_change_their_tune_to_be_heard_in_noisy_cities Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:15:01 -0500 <table> <tr><td> A plastic sheet called a "photon sieve" focuses incoming light, providing a quick, cheap way to replace damaged space telescopes </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: New Scientist - Discipline: Astronomyhttp://www.labspaces.net/118926/Photon_sieves_make_super_cheap_space_telescopes Tue, 03 Apr 2012 08:48:59 -0500 <table> <tr><td> <img src="http://www.labspaces.net/images/news/shutterstock_81254956.jpg" width="80" height="60" border="0" /> </td><td> A team of University of Pittsburgh mathematicians is using computational models to better understand how the structure of neural variability relates to such functions as short-term memory and decision making. In a paper published online April 2 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the Pitt team examines how fluctuations in brain activity can impact the dynamics </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: University of Pittsburgh - Discipline: Neurosciencehttp://www.labspaces.net/118925/Researchers_link_neural_variability_to_short_term_memory_and_decision_making Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:00:01 -0500 <table> <tr><td> What's to stop kids from pirating LEGO sets as readily as they pirate music? Let's assume for a minute that 3D printing becomes as good as its proponents say it will, and soon. We're talking high strength plastics, high resolution models, all at prices that the average consumer can afford. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: Technology Review - Discipline: Technologyhttp://www.labspaces.net/118924/In_a___D_Printed_Future__Do_Toymakers_Have_a_Business_Model_ Tue, 03 Apr 2012 08:48:59 -0500 <table> <tr><td> <img src="/images/news/42333_web.jpg" width="80" height="120.53333333333" border="0" /> </td><td> Splitting hydrogen and oxygen from water using conventional electrolysis techniques requires considerable amounts of electrical energy. But green plants produce oxygen from water efficiently using a catalytic technique powered by sunlight ? a process that is part of photosynthesis and so effective that it is the Earth's major source of oxygen. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: Georgia Institute of Technology Research News - Discipline: Biochemistryhttp://www.labspaces.net/118923/Scientists_study_the_catalytic_reactions_used_by_plants_to_split_oxygen_from_water Tue, 03 Apr 2012 12:45:01 -0500 <table> <tr><td> The "uncanny valley" phenomenon remains almost as mysterious as when Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori first coined the term in 1970. But scientists have begun venturing deeper into the metaphorical valley to better understand why robots or virtual characters with certain human characteristics can trigger such mental uneasiness. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: MSNBC - Discipline: Psychologyhttp://www.labspaces.net/118922/Why_creepy_Uncanny_Valley_keeps_us_on_edge Tue, 03 Apr 2012 08:48:59 -0500 <table> <tr><td> <img src="http://www.labspaces.net/images/news/72200_spilled_pills.jpg" width="80" height="60" border="0" /> </td><td> An international team of researchers involving the University of Adelaide and University of Colorado has made a major discovery that could lead to more effective treatment of severe pain using morphine. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: University of Adelaide - Discipline: Healthhttp://www.labspaces.net/118921/Discovery_paves_way_for_improved_painkillers Tue, 03 Apr 2012 12:30:01 -0500 <table> <tr><td> The state of Arizona could find itself in the company of countries like China and Syria for censoring the Internet if the state's governor signs a bill recently passed by the legislature. </td> </tr> </table> <br>Source: MSNBC - Discipline: Internethttp://www.labspaces.net/118920/Arizona_law_would_censor_the_Internet Tue, 03 Apr 2012 08:48:59 -0500

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