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NEW PROPERTIES DISCOVERED FOR NANOTUBE SHEETS
http://www.physorg.com/news128350072.html
GIANT PUZZLE EXPOSES GERMANY'S COMMUNIST SECRETS
http://www.physorg.com/news128320597.html
NATURAL-GAS VEHICLES HOT IN UTAH, WHERE THE FUEL IS CHEAP
http://www.physorg.com/news128317046.html
SCANNING WORLD'S EVERY BOOK MEANS TURNING MANY, MANY PAGES
http://www.physorg.com/news128316433.html
WORKPLACE FLEXIBILITY ASSOCIATED WITH REDUCED ABSENCES AND IMPROVED JOB COMMITMENT
http://www.physorg.com/news128315861.html
SIMULATIONS MAY EXPLAIN NANOPARTICLES 'PINNED' TO GRAPHENE
http://www.physorg.com/news128274079.html
PENGUIN'S WETSUIT PUTS HIM BACK IN THE SWIM OF THINGS
http://www.physorg.com/news128318002.html
SCIENTISTS REVEAL PRESENCE OF OCEAN CURRENT 'STRIPES'
http://www.physorg.com/news128337250.html
DIFFERENT PROCESSES GOVERN SIGHT, LIGHT DETECTION
http://www.physorg.com/news128337348.html
STUDY SHOWS COMMON VITAMIN AND OTHER MICRONUTRIENT SUPPLEMENTS REDUCE RISKS OF TB RECURRENCE
http://www.physorg.com/news128338367.html



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SCIENTISTS REVEAL PRESENCE OF OCEAN CURRENT 'STRIPES', April 25
An international collaborative of scientists led by Peter Niiler, a physical oceanographer at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, and Nikolai Maximenko, a researcher at the International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii, has detected the presence of crisscrossing patterns of currents running throughout the world’s oceans. The new data could help scientists significantly improve high-resolution models that help them understand trends in climate and marine ecosystems.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news128337250.html

JULES VERNE BOOSTS ISS ORBIT, April 25
ESA's Jules Verne ATV was used for the first time early this morning to raise the orbit of the International Space Station. A 740-second burn of the Automated Transfer Vehicle's main engines successfully lifted the altitude of the 280-tonne Station by around 4.5 km to a height of 342 km above the Earth's surface.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news128343131.html

NORTHERN LIGHTS GLIMMER WITH UNEXPECTED TRAIT, April 25
An international team of scientists has detected that some of the glow of Earth’s aurora is polarized, an unexpected state for such emissions. Measurements of this newfound polarization in the Northern Lights may provide scientists with fresh insights into the composition of Earth’s upper atmosphere, the configuration of its magnetic field, and the energies of particles from the Sun, the researchers say.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news128344913.html

FIRST NANOSCALE IMAGE OF SOIL REVEALS AN 'INCREDIBLE' VARIETY, April 25
A handful of soil is a lot like a banana, strawberry and apple smoothie: Blended all together, it is hard to tell what's in there, especially if you have never tasted the fruits before.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news128350858.html



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RESEARCHERS DISCOVER THEORETICAL MODEL TO PREDICT JAMMING, April 25
Researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have come up with a theoretical model to predict when granular materials become jammed. This advancement not only broadens fundamental knowledge, it also provides new avenues to a number of practical areas that ranges from materials innovation to medicine. The study, currently available on the Nature Physics Web site, will be published in the journal's print edition on May 1.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news128346473.html

ON THE ENERGY TRAIL: RESEARCHERS FIND NEW DETAILS FOLLOWING THE PATH OF SOLAR ENERGY DURING PHOTOSYNTHESIS, April 25
Imagine a technology that would not only provide a green and renewable source of electrical energy, but could also help scrub the atmosphere of excessive carbon dioxide resulting from the burning of fossil fuels. That’s the promise of artificial versions of photosynthesis, the process by which green plants have been converting solar energy into electrochemical energy for millions of years. To get there, however, scientists need a far better understanding of how Nature does it, starting with the harvesting of sunlight and the transporting of this energy to electrochemical reaction centers.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news128348686.html

PINPOINT MICROWAVE RESOLUTION COULD LEAD TO WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER, April 25
Researchers at the University of Michigan have focused microwaves to specks 20 times smaller than their wavelength and five times smaller than other devices have achieved.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news128350265.html



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SIMULATIONS MAY EXPLAIN NANOPARTICLES 'PINNED' TO GRAPHENE, April 24
It was hard to understand how a graphene sheet — a featureless, flat sheet of carbon atoms — lying on an equally featureless iridium surface, somehow converted itself into a kind of muffin tin that formed “muffins” made from newly arrived iridium atoms. The muffins were equally spaced and of equal size.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news128274079.html

NEW PROPERTIES DISCOVERED FOR NANOTUBE SHEETS, April 25
A team of nanotechnologists at The University of Texas at Dallas, along with Brazilian collaborators, have discovered that sheets of carbon nanotubes can produce bizarre mechanical properties when stretched or uniformly compressed. These unexpected but highly useful properties could be used for such applications as making composites, artificial muscles, gaskets or sensors. The team’s findings are reported in the April 25 issue of the journal Science.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news128350072.html



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Latest News On GENERAL SCIENCE:
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AGENTS TRAP SALMON-EATING SEA LIONS IN ORE.-WASH. RIVER, April 25
(AP) -- One by one, curious California sea lions checked out the open cage left invitingly on a platform in the Columbia River below Bonneville Dam and flopped inside to chill out on the nice flat surface. Big mistake.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news128338189.html

BRITISH BUTTERFLIES NEED SUMMER BOOST, April 25
British conservationists said 2007 was the worst summer for butterflies in more than 25 years.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news128338295.html

A FIRST: RESEARCHERS APPLY EFFICIENT CODING PRINCIPLE TO SENSE OF SMELL, April 25
For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that the efficient coding principle regarding neurobiological processes applies to sense of smell. The team, comprised of researchers from the Czech Academy of Sciences and the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), displays this quantitative relationship in a study of male moths and pheromone plumes, published April 25th in the open-access journal PLoS Computational Biology.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news128315644.html

ELUSIVE PROTEIN PROTECTS MALARIA PARASITE FROM HEME, April 25
Researchers at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech have identified Heme Detoxification Protein (HDP), a unique protein encoded in the malaria genome that represents a potential target for developing new malaria drugs.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news128315575.html

PROBING QUESTION: WHY DO WHALES BEACH THEMSELVES?, April 25
Whales are the largest marine mammals in the world — the smallest species weigh in at several tons. When whales beach themselves, they can die simply from the crushing weight of their own bodies or from overheating due to their blubber, which is needed for insulation in cold ocean waters. What causes these often fatal incidents?
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news128351475.html

NARWHALS MORE AT RISK TO ARCTIC WARMING THAN POLAR BEARS, April 25
(AP) -- The polar bear has become an icon of global warming vulnerability, but a new study found an Arctic mammal that may be even more at risk to climate change: the narwhal.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news128352515.html

GIANT PUZZLE EXPOSES GERMANY'S COMMUNIST SECRETS, April 25
It is painstaking work, almost a labour of love, but help is close for the nine people who have spent years sticking together millions of pieces of paper to decipher the workings of East Germany's once-feared Stasi secret police.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news128320597.html

FIRST CLONED DOG SET TO PRODUCE OFFSPRING: RESEARCHERS, April 25
The world's first cloned dog will become a father next month in the first breeding of cloned canines, South Korean researchers said Friday.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news128320508.html

PENGUIN'S WETSUIT PUTS HIM BACK IN THE SWIM OF THINGS, April 25
(AP) -- What's black and white and warm all over? A penguin in a wetsuit, naturally. Sounds like a joke, but it's quite serious for biologists at the California Academy of Sciences, who had a wetsuit created for an African penguin to help him get back in the swim of things.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news128318002.html

FINDING GOD WITH BIOCOMPLEXITY, April 25
After centuries of trying to uncover the fundamental laws of the universe, science is still no closer to answering some of humanity’s biggest questions about the meaning of life, the existence of God and the evolution of the human mind and societies. Is that because science is not sufficiently advanced to tackle such problems? Or is it because the traditional approach to science is incapable of answering humanity’s deepest wonders?
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news128338117.html

LINKING LOW FREQUENCY HEARING TO THE COCHLEA'S CURVATURE, April 25
Shape matters, even in hearing. Specifically, it is the shape of the cochlea — the snail-shell-shaped organ in the inner ear that converts sound waves into nerve impulses that the brain deciphers — which proves to be surprisingly important.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news128352212.html



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Latest News On TECHNOLOGY:
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REPORT: IDLE APPLIANCES ARE POWER-SUCKERS, April 25
Electrical appliances that use electricity even when not working are a major energy consumer, a Canadian federal study showed.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news128338320.html

TOSHIBA'S NET PROFIT PLUNGES, April 25
(AP) -- Japan's Toshiba Corp. said Friday its net profit plummeted a staggering 95 percent in the January-March quarter due to losses related to its exit from next-generation video HD DVD business.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news128320630.html

HYNIX REPORTS Q1 LOSS ON GLOBAL MEMORY CHIP GLUT, April 25
South Korea's Hynix Semiconductor, the world's number two maker of computer memory chips, said Friday it posted a net loss in the first quarter because a global glut of memory chips drove down prices.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news128320545.html

INTEGRATING EMBEDDED SYSTEMS, April 25
Embedded digital control systems are powerful and ubiquitous in the technologies we use, but getting them to cooperate is difficult. That situation is changing.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news128343361.html

MULTIMEDIA GUIDE TRACKS BERLIN WALL, April 25
(AP) -- It can be hard to find what remains of the Berlin Wall, a divisive landmark that for 28 years split the German capital and an entire generation.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news128350465.html

MICROSOFT STICKS TO ITS BID FOR YAHOO, April 25
Microsoft's chief financial officer said Thursday that the US software giant is standing by its 44.6 billion dollar bid for Yahoo and the April 26 deadline it gave the struggling Internet pioneer to decide.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news128320569.html

NATURAL-GAS VEHICLES HOT IN UTAH, WHERE THE FUEL IS CHEAP, April 25
(AP) -- Troy Anderson was at the gas pump and couldn't have been happier, filling up at a rate of $5 per tank. Anderson was paying 63.8 cents per gallon equivalent for compressed natural gas, making Utah a hot market for vehicles that run on the fuel.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news128317046.html

YAHOO PLANS MAKEOVER WITH ELEMENTS OF SOCIAL NETWORK, April 25
(AP) -- Yahoo Inc. plans to make its Web site a social hub by hosting applications from other online services, part of the Internet pioneer's effort to spawn more advertising opportunities.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news128316456.html

SCANNING WORLD'S EVERY BOOK MEANS TURNING MANY, MANY PAGES, April 25
(AP) -- In a dimly lit back room on the second level of the University of Michigan library's book-shelving department, Courtney Mitchel helped a giant desktop machine digest a rare, centuries-old Bible.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news128316433.html

MICROSOFT 2009 OUTLOOK ROSY, BUT INVESTORS TRIP ON NEAR-TERM (UPDATE), April 24
(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. is looking ahead to a strong fiscal 2009, with or without Yahoo. The software maker gave Wall Street a first peek at guidance for next year indicating that strong worldwide sales would overpower hiccups in the U.S. economy that could depress information technology spending.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news128275653.html

GPS MARKET AT TURNING POINT WITH SLIDING PRICES, DEMAND OFF, April 25
(AP) -- Consumer navigation devices have gone from expensive gadgets to mainstream gear in just three years, but Europe's largest maker is struggling. The experience of Netherlands-based TomTom NV - which saw earnings fall 83 percent in the first quarter - suggests the market for stand-alone global-positioning systems is at a turning point.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news128350419.html

REPORT: GLOBAL CELL PHONE SALES UP 14 PCT IN 1Q, April 25
(AP) -- Global mobile phone sales continued to surge in the first quarter, when shipments reached 282 million despite an economic downturn, research firm Strategy Analytics said Friday.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news128350504.html



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YOUNG AND HOMELESS DRUG-USERS MORE LIKELY TO EXIT TREATMENT EARLY, April 25
Almost a quarter of the most problematic drug-users in some areas exit drug treatment programmes before they've even completed 30 days reports a new study published in BioMed Central’s open access Harm Reduction Journal. It found that problem drug-users who were younger, homeless or not currently injecting are significantly more likely to exit early, possibly because drug services are off-putting and not suited to their needs.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news128320679.html

NEWSPAPER: FDA FOUND CONCERNS AT MERCK VACCINE PLANT, April 25
(AP) -- Contaminated children's vaccines and other potentially serious concerns were spotted by federal regulators who combed Merck & Co.'s vaccine plant in the Philadelphia suburbs, according to a published report.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news128316743.html

BREAST CANCER SUBTYPES ORIGINATE FROM DIFFERENT BIOLOGICAL PATHWAYS, April 25
There is a biological distinction between breast cancers that depend on hormones and those that do not, according to research published Friday, April 25th in the open-access journal PLoS Genetics.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news128316323.html

MINIMALLY INVASIVE PANCREAS SURGERY LEADS TO FEWER COMPLICATIONS, STUDY FINDS, April 25
When surgeons need to remove part of the pancreas, performing the operation with minimally invasive techniques offers patients a shorter hospital stay and fewer complications, researchers have concluded.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news128337938.html

TRUMP: ATLANTIC CITY CASINOS SHOULD SUE OVER SMOKING BAN, April 25
(AP) -- Donald Trump called on 11 casinos Thursday to sue over a new smoking ban approved by the Atlantic City Council, arguing that it created a competitive disadvantage.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news128317407.html

NEW GENETIC TECHNIQUES TO COMBAT LUNG CANCER, April 25
New results on genetic techniques that are helping doctors diagnose and treat lung cancer were released today at the 1st European Lung Cancer Conference jointly organized by the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) and the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) in Geneva, Switzerland.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news128337478.html

EXTREME NAUSEA AND VOMITING VARIES AMONG PREGNANT WOMEN FROM DIFFERENT COUNTRIES, April 25
Mothers born in India and Sri Lanka are three times more likely to suffer from extreme nausea and vomiting in pregnancy (hyperemesis gravidarum) than ethnic Norwegians. This finding comes from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health’s study of 900, 000 first-time pregnancies registered in the Medical Birth Registry of Norway over a forty year period.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news128337738.html

AUTISTIC MANNERISMS REDUCED BY SENSORY TREATMENT, April 25
Parents of children with autism are increasingly turning to sensory integration treatment to help their children deal with the disorder, and they’re seeing good results. In 2007, 71 percent of parents who pursued alternatives to traditional treatment used sensory integration methods, and 91 percent found these methods helpful.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news128337779.html

BAXTER MAY STAY OUT OF HEPARIN BUSINESS, April 25
The head of Baxter International Inc. said the company has not decided whether it will resume selling the blood thinner heparin in the United States.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news128338218.html

SHOULDER TRANSPLANT PERFORMED IN ITALY, April 25
Doctors in Italy said they performed the first transplant of a human shoulder.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news128338260.html

SCIENTISTS LOSE HOPE OVER AIDS VACCINE, April 25
A survey of leading U.S. and British AIDS researchers said many scientists see little hope of an effective vaccine against HIV in the near future.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news128338277.html

ANESTHESIA AND ALZHEIMER'S, April 25
In studies of human brain cells, the widely-used anesthetic desflurane does not contribute to increased production of amyloid-beta protein; however, when combined with low oxygen conditions, it can produce more of this Alzheimer’s associated protein.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news128343028.html

GOOD NUTRITION STARTS EARLY, April 25
You are what you eat, as the old saying goes. Maybe so, but increasingly researchers are finding that you are also what your mother ate – maternal nutrition has profound consequences on the health of offspring.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news128348846.html

MAPPING THE GENETIC LOCUS FOR TRIGLYCERIDES, April 25
Researchers have mapped out a region on human chromosome 1 that contributes to genetically elevated blood triglyceride levels, a major risk factor for heart disease.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news128348933.html

OPENING A CHANNEL FOR SALT RETENTION, April 25
A research team has developed the first small molecule that can reversibly activate a key protein involved in balancing sodium levels, paving the way for drugs that can treat low blood pressure and related conditions.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news128349593.html

FDA TAKES CLOSER LOOK AT LASIK COMPLAINTS, April 25
(AP) -- A decade after Lasik eye surgery hit the market, patients left with fuzzy instead of clear vision are airing their grievances before federal health officials. Make no mistake: Most Lasik recipients do walk away with crisper vision, some better than 20/20.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news128316625.html

VIRUSES MAY PLAY A ROLE IN LUNG CANCER DEVELOPMENT, April 25
Papers presented at the 1st European Lung Cancer Conference, jointly organized by the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) and the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) in Geneva, Switzerland highlight emerging evidence that common viruses may contribute to the development of lung cancer.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news128316247.html

INDONESIANS HOLD MAJOR DRILL FOR BIRD FLU PANDEMIC, April 25
(AP) -- Indonesia launched a major bird flu drill Friday that will test the ability of the nation hardest hit by the virus to respond to a possible pandemic. Thousands were taking part, from local residents to government officials.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news128318149.html

BIOLOGICAL CLOCK TEST AIMED AT WOMEN, April 25
Doctors said a blood test being offered at U.S. fertility clinics may help determine if a woman's window of opportunity for conception is closing.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news128338240.html

RESEARCHERS IMPORTANT MARKERS OF HIGH RISK OF TYPE 2 DIABETES, April 25
Doctors are aware of a range of risk factors, mostly related to the patients’ family history, overweight, and lifestyle, that contribute to the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Now researchers at the University of Warwick have found markers that indicate endothelial dysfunction (changes in the cells which line the blood vessels) and sub-clinical systemic inflammation can also help identify a far greater number of people at high risk for future development of type 2 diabetes.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news128344829.html

STUDY SHOWS FALSE MEMORIES COMPLICATE END-OF-LIFE TREATMENT DECISIONS, April 25
Advance directives, or living wills, may not effectively honor end-of-life wishes because life-sustaining treatment preferences often change over time without people being aware of the changes, according to a new study co-authored by UC Irvine researchers Peter Ditto and Elizabeth Loftus.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news128351726.html

CLINICAL SYMPTOMS JUST AS GOOD AS LAB TRIALS FOR AIDS PATIENTS: WHO, April 25
AIDS sufferers whose treatment is assessed by simple clinical signs are almost on a par with those whose therapies are based on advanced laboratory analysis, the World Health Organisation said Friday.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news128352592.html

WORKPLACE FLEXIBILITY ASSOCIATED WITH REDUCED ABSENCES AND IMPROVED JOB COMMITMENT, April 25
Workers who reported increased work flexibility from one year to the next also had fewer absences for illness and improved job commitment, according to new research from Wake Forest University School of Medicine. In addition, these workers were less likely to say that health problems affected their job performance.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news128315861.html

DIFFERENT PROCESSES GOVERN SIGHT, LIGHT DETECTION, April 25
A Johns Hopkins University biologist, in research with implications for people suffering from seasonal affective disorder and insomnia, has determined that the eye uses light to reset the biological clock through a mechanism separate from the ability to see.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news128337348.html

STUDY SHOWS COMMON VITAMIN AND OTHER MICRONUTRIENT SUPPLEMENTS REDUCE RISKS OF TB RECURRENCE, April 25
New findings show a link between micronutrient supplementation and reduced risk of recurrence during tuberculosis chemotherapy, according to a study published in the June 1 issue of The Journal of Infectious Diseases, now available online.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news128338367.html






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