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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • July 17th, 2006
Mercury Atomic Clock Keeps Time with Record Accuracy

Mercury Atomic Clock Keeps Time with Record Accuracy

A clock that would neither gain nor lose a second in about 400 million years

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  • By Alexandra Lupu
  • July 17th, 2006
Weight Loss in Women- The Earlier Sign of Dementia

Weight Loss in Women- The Earlier Sign of Dementia

A recent study shows that women that undergo a process of weight loss can later in life come to suffer from dementia

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • July 17th, 2006
Regeneration After Spinal Cord Injury

Regeneration After Spinal Cord Injury

"A major milestone in the battle to return spinal cord injury patients to a state of mobility"

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  • By Alexandra Lupu
  • July 17th, 2006
Protein AP2 Brings About Asthma

Protein AP2 Brings About Asthma

Previously linked to insulin resistance and atherosclerosis by scientific studies, AP2 protein was also found to worsen asthma condition

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • July 17th, 2006
New Ways to Synthesize a Biomedically Important Molecule

New Ways to Synthesize a Biomedically Important Molecule

Researchers try to combine newly discovered chemical reactions to form an important complex molecule

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • July 17th, 2006
Undersea Vehicles to Study Formation of Seafloor Deposits Enriched in Precious Metals

Undersea Vehicles to Study Formation of Seafloor Deposits Enriched in Precious Metals

Near Papua New Guinea in the western Pacific Ocean

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • July 17th, 2006
Beekeepers Work Hard for the Honey

Beekeepers Work Hard for the Honey

Despite Changing Tupelo Forest

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • July 17th, 2006
'Paint-On' Antenna Test Flight Paves Way for Next-Generation High-Altitude Airships

'Paint-On' Antenna Test Flight Paves Way for Next-Generation High-Altitude Airships

"Paint-on" antennas, designed to establish new high-altitude communications and surveillance platforms, successfully transmitted voice and data links as well as teleconferencing capabilities

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  • By Alexandra Lupu
  • July 17th, 2006
Prediabetes May Increase the Risk of Alzheimer's Disease

Prediabetes May Increase the Risk of Alzheimer's Disease

Slightly higher than normal levels of sugar in the bloodstream may increase risk of Alzheimer's disease

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  • By Alexandra Lupu
  • July 17th, 2006
Blood Tests Help Early Tracking Down of Lung Cancer

Blood Tests Help Early Tracking Down of Lung Cancer

Non-small-cell lung cancer can be identified by blood tests that show the immune systems response to tumors years before X-ray or CT can

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  • By Alexandra Lupu
  • July 15th, 2006
Algae Extract May Prevent Cervical Cancer

Algae Extract May Prevent Cervical Cancer

The carrageenean extracted from red algae proved to be a very potent inhibitor of sexually transmitted human papilloma virus

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  • By Alexandra Lupu
  • July 15th, 2006
Got Asthma? Quit Smoking to Boost Lungs' Function

Got Asthma? Quit Smoking to Boost Lungs' Function

Patients that suffer from asthma and quit smoking are very likely to improve the function of their lungs with more than 15%

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  • By Anca Rusu
  • July 15th, 2006
The Future of the Human and Digital Species. Will We Merge into a Sole Entity?

The Future of the Human and Digital Species. Will We Merge into a Sole Entity?

Second Geoethical Nanotechnology Workshop

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  • By Alexandra Lupu
  • July 14th, 2006
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - The Most Efficient Therapy Against Emotional Disorders

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - The Most Efficient Therapy Against Emotional Disorders

CBT works by making the patient aware of the fact that he can control his thoughts and emotions

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • July 14th, 2006
Scientists Discover the Earliest Predator-Prey Relationship

Scientists Discover the Earliest Predator-Prey Relationship

And reveal the importance of one of the main forces that drives evolution

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • July 14th, 2006
Scientists To Build Computer that Mimics the Human Brain

Scientists To Build Computer that Mimics the Human Brain

The �1m project is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • July 14th, 2006
Training For Parents Could Help Child Anxiety Disorders

Training For Parents Could Help Child Anxiety Disorders

Special skills workshops for parents of anxious young children could offer a breakthrough in addressing this difficult problem, according to psychologists at The University of Manchester