October 6, 2007 – 10:07 pm
From WUSTL News.
Who would have thought that the secrets to long life might exist in the naked, wrinkled body of one of the world’s ugliest animals? Probably not many, but current research may be leading seekers of the Fountain of Youth to a strange little beast — the naked mole rat.
These small rodents are [...]
October 5, 2007 – 1:17 am
From NASA.
An Earth-like planet is likely forming 424 light-years away in a star system called HD 113766, say astronomers using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope.
Scientists have discovered a huge belt of warm dust - enough to build a Mars-size planet or larger - swirling around a distant star that is just slightly more massive than our [...]
October 4, 2007 – 1:24 pm
From Massive Free Education List by JimmyR.com.
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Campus launches YouTube channel. (UC Berkeley)
UC Berkeley is the first university to make videos of full courses available through YouTube. Visitors to the site at youtube.com/ucberkeley can view more than 300 hours of videotaped courses and events. Topics range from bioengineering, to peace and conflict studies, to “Physics for [...]
September 29, 2007 – 1:53 pm
From NPR.org.
A team of scientists says it has found a string of vast, rich forests in an unexpected setting: far below the coral reefs found in the tropical Pacific Ocean. The new forests are made out of kelp plants that harbor a huge range of plants and animals. Like tropical rainforests, they may be refuges [...]
September 27, 2007 – 8:52 pm
From Physorg.com.
While prescription medications work successfully to cure an ailment in some people, in others the same dose of the same drug can cause an adverse reaction or no response at all.
According to a research team led by Sean Cutler, an assistant professor of plant cell biology at UC Riverside, such variation in drug responses [...]
September 18, 2007 – 11:43 pm
From Physorg.com.
A team led by biophysicist Jeremy Smith of the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory has taken a significant step toward unraveling the mystery of how proteins fold into unique, three-dimensional shapes. Using ORNL’s Cray XT4 Jaguar supercomputer as well as computer systems in Italy and Germany, the team revealed a [...]