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- Extreme plasma theories put to the test
- Preschool children who can pay attention more likely to finish college: Early reading and math not predictive of college completion
- Possible muscle disease therapeutic target found
- Limits of microbial life in an undersea volcano: Third of Earth's organisms live in rock and sediments
- New bird species discovered in 'cloud forest' of Peru
- Seeing through walls: Laser system reconstructs objects hidden from sight
- Research links extreme summer heat events to global warming
- Microswimmers: Micron-scale swimming robots could deliver drugs and carry cargo using simple motion
| Extreme plasma theories put to the test Posted: 06 Aug 2012 02:13 PM PDT The first controlled studies of extremely hot, dense matter have overthrown the widely accepted 50-year-old model used to explain how ions influence each other's behavior in a dense plasma. The results should benefit a wide range of fields, from research aimed at tapping nuclear fusion as an energy source to understanding the inner workings of stars.  |
| Posted: 06 Aug 2012 12:14 PM PDT Young children who are able to pay attention and persist on a task have a 50 percent greater chance of completing college, according to a new study. Surprisingly, achievement in reading and math did not significantly predict whether or not the students completed college. And the good news for parents and educators, the researchers said, is that attention and persistence skills are malleable and can be taught.  |
| Possible muscle disease therapeutic target found Posted: 06 Aug 2012 12:12 PM PDT The study of muscular system protein myostatin has been of great interest to researchers as a potential therapeutic target for people with muscular disorders. Although much is known about how myostatin affects muscle growth, there has been disagreement about what types of muscle cells it acts upon. New research narrows down the field to one likely type of cell.  |
| Posted: 06 Aug 2012 12:12 PM PDT By some estimates, a third of the Earth's organisms by mass live in our planet's rocks and sediments, yet their lives and ecology are almost a complete mystery. Microbiologists have just revealed the first detailed data about a group of methane-exhaling microbes that live deep in the cracks of hot undersea volcanoes.  |
| New bird species discovered in 'cloud forest' of Peru Posted: 06 Aug 2012 10:51 AM PDT A colorful, fruit-eating bird with a black mask, pale belly and scarlet breast – never before described by science – has been discovered following an expedition to the remote Peruvian Andes.  |
| Seeing through walls: Laser system reconstructs objects hidden from sight Posted: 06 Aug 2012 10:08 AM PDT Researchers combined bouncing photons with advanced optics to enable them to "see" what's hidden around the corner.  |
| Research links extreme summer heat events to global warming Posted: 06 Aug 2012 10:05 AM PDT A new statistical analysis by NASA scientists has found that Earth's land areas have become much more likely to experience an extreme summer heat wave than they were in the middle of the 20th century.  |
| Microswimmers: Micron-scale swimming robots could deliver drugs and carry cargo using simple motion Posted: 06 Aug 2012 06:39 AM PDT Researchers have used complex computational models to design micro-swimmers that could overcome the challenges of swimming at the micron scale. These autonomous micro-robots could carry cargo and navigate in response to stimuli such as light.  |
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