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MIT reveals superconducting surprise
02-12-2008 · EurekAlert!MIT physicists have taken a step toward understanding the puzzling nature of high-temperature superconductors, materials that conduct electricity with no resistance at temperatures well above absolute zero.
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- XMM-Newton reveals X-rays from gas streams around young stars
05-31-2007 · European Space Agency (ESA)
XMM-Newton has surveyed nearly two hundred stars under formation to reveal, contrary to expectations, how streams of matter fall onto the young stars' magnetic atmospheres and radiate X-rays.
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- Pulling Strings: Stretching proteins can reveal how they fold
07-14-2007 · Science News Online
Unfolding a single protein by pulling on its ends reveals the molecular forces that make it fold up.
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- Researchers reveal genetic secrets of devastating human parasite
09-20-2007 · EurekAlert!
An international team of researchers has revealed the genetic secrets of one of the world's most debilitating human parasites, Brugia malayi, which the World Health Organization estimates has seriously incapacitated and disfigured more than 40 million people around the globe. The study reveals dozens of potential new targets for drugs or vaccines and should provide new opportunities for understanding, treating and preventing elephantiasis, the disfiguring disease caused by the Brugia malayi parasite.
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- Study explores distinction between 'different' and 'uncool'
12-04-2007 · EurekAlert!
Just as some products reveal our aspirations, there are other products that consumers avoid, lest we be associated with a particular group. An environmentalist would never buy an SUV. Baby boomers avoid products associated with being elderly. What's the difference between products we actively avoid and those that are simply "not us?" A new study reveals an important distinction -- and also highlights the mitigating effect of social pressure.
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- MIT probes secret to bone's strength
08-27-2007 · EurekAlert!
New research from MIT appearing in a recent issue of Nanotechnology reveals for the first time the role of bone's atomistic structure in a toughening mechanism that incorporates several previously proposed theories. This mechanism allows for the sacrifice of a small piece of the bone in order to save the whole, helps explain why bone tolerates small cracks, and seems to be adapted specifically to accommodate bone's need for continuous rebuilding from the inside out.
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- Field Museum, U. of Illinois researchers reveal social assets of Chicago's Mexican immigrants
11-10-2006 · EurekAlert!
A new study, several years in the making, reveals that Mexican immigrants in the Chicagoland area possess a wealth of artistic and networking assets that contribute to the social and cultural vitality of neighborhoods, organizations and institutions. In addition, their participation in cultural and artistic activities stimulates economic activity, especially in the music industry and service sector.
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- Dental crowns reveal the diet of a species:
12-14-2006 · EurekAlert!
According to recent research, the complexity of tooth surfaces reveals the diet of a species. Scientists at the University of Helsinki's Institute of Biotechnology and Department of Geology showed that the more complex the surface of an animal's teeth, the greater the share of vegetables in its diet. For instance, the teeth of carnivores and rodents differ in almost every aspect, but if a carnivore and a rodent eat similar food, their teeth are equally complex. The results were published in Nature.
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- Worms take the sniff test to reveal sex differences in brain
11-05-2007 · EurekAlert!
Buttery popcorn or fresh green vegetables? Your answer tells a lot about you. Now, scientists say that the way that thousands of tiny worms have answered that question likely reveals a lot about you and your brain, too.
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- XMM-Newton reveals a magnetic surprise
02-22-2007 · European Space Agency (ESA)
ESA's X-ray observatory XMM-Newton has revealed evidence for a magnetic field in space where astronomers never expected to find one. The magnetic field surrounds a young star called AB Aurigae and provides a possible solution to a twenty-year-old puzzle.
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- Team analyzes genomes of 12 fly species
11-09-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
In work that reveals important clues in the evolution of genes, a consortium of MIT scientists and colleagues has analyzed the genomes of twelve species of the fruit fly in one of the first large-scale comparisons of multiple animal genomes.
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