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A BASEBALL CAP THAT READS YOUR MIND
http://www.physorg.com/news130152277.html
STRANGE STAR STUMPS ASTRONOMERS
http://www.physorg.com/news130153186.html
GIANT PYTHONS INVADE SOUTHEASTERN FLORIDA: STUDY
http://www.physorg.com/news130146511.html
HUGE PROJECT TO RESTORE EVERGLADES TO BE SUSPENDED
http://www.physorg.com/news130141789.html
WEATHER, WAVES AND WIRELESS: SUPER STRENGTH SIGNALLING
http://www.physorg.com/news130150992.html
SCIENTISTS UNVEIL NEW TOOL TO UNDERSTAND EVOLUTION OF MULTI-DOMAIN GENES
http://www.physorg.com/news130152057.html
HIV INFECTION STEMS FROM FEW VIRUSES
http://www.physorg.com/news130153062.html
GENERAL PRACTITIONERS FILLING THE GAP LEFT BY INADEQUATE DENTAL SERVICES, SAYS DOCTOR
http://www.physorg.com/news130153467.html
RESEARCHERS IDENTIFY PROTEINS THAT HELP DEVELOP MAMMALIAN HEARTS
http://www.physorg.com/news130154720.html
HOW SMALL MOLECULE CAN TAKE APART ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE PROTEIN FIBERS
http://www.physorg.com/news130155043.html



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Latest News On SPACE and EARTH SCIENCE:
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PIONEERING LANDSCAPE-SCALE RESEARCH RELEASES FIRST FINDINGS, May 16
The May issue of the Canadian Journal of Forest Research presents the preliminary findings of 23 scientists involved in one of the first landscape-scale experiments on how forest management affects western Ponderosa pine ecosystems.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news130155446.html

THIRTY-METER TELESCOPE FOCUSES ON TWO CANDIDATE SITES, May 16
After completing a worldwide survey unprecedented in rigor and detail of astronomical sites for the Thirty-Meter Telescope (TMT), the TMT Observatory Corporation board of directors has selected two outstanding sites, one in each hemisphere, for further consideration. Cerro Armazones lies in Chile's Atacama Desert, and Mauna Kea is on Hawai'i Island.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news130163710.html

HUGE PROJECT TO RESTORE EVERGLADES TO BE SUSPENDED, May 16
(AP) -- Construction on a huge reservoir meant to help restore the Everglades will be put on hold over a lawsuit brought by a group that fears the water could be diverted for other purposes.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news130141789.html

SCIENTISTS IDENTIFIED EARTHQUAKE FAULTS IN SICHUAN, CHINA, May 16
Only last summer research published by earth scientists in the international journal Tectonics concluded that geological faults in the Sichuan Basin, China "are sufficiently long to sustain a strong ground-shaking earthquake, making them potentially serious sources of regional seismic hazard."
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news130162918.html

WILDLIFE NUMBERS PLUMMET GLOBALLY: WWF, May 16
The world's wildlife populations have reduced by around a quarter since the 1970s, according to a major report published Friday by the WWF conservation organization.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news130167229.html

STRANGE STAR STUMPS ASTRONOMERS, May 16
An obese oddball of a star has left astronomers wondering how it could have formed. Dr David Champion and his colleagues at CSIRO’s Australia Telescope National Facility publish their findings about the star today in the online journal, Science Express.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news130153186.html



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ROCHESTER'S OMEGA LASER RECEIVES 50-FOLD POWER INCREASE TO BECOME 'PETAWATT' LASER, May 16
The University of Rochester will mark another important step in the effort toward attaining sustainable fusion, the ultimate source of clean energy, Friday, May 16.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news130164755.html

SNAKES HEAR IN STEREO, May 16
Physicists from the University Munich in Germany and the University of Topeka, Kansas have strong new evidence that snakes can hear through their jaws. Snakes don't have outer ears, leading to the myth that they can't hear at all.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news130165463.html

A CRITIQUE OF SHORTSIGHTED ANTHROPIC PRINCIPLES, May 16
Many people marvel that we live in a universe that seems to be precisely tailored to suit the development of intelligent life. The observation is the basis for some forms of "Anthropic Principles" that strive to explain why the laws of physics take the form we observe, given the nearly countless other possibilities permitted by schools of thought such as string theory.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news130167074.html



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INJECT RATIONAL ARGUMENT INTO EMBRYO DEBATE, SAYS EXPERT, May 16
In the week that the UK parliament debates controversial amendments to the 1990 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act, Professor John Burn asks at what point a cell becomes a human.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news130150757.html

NEW SKOREAN LAW TIGHTENS RULES ON CLONING, May 16
South Korea's parliament on Friday passed a law to regulate research into cloning, following a scandal in which a now-disgraced expert claimed to have made the first human clone stem cells.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news130146470.html

GIANT PYTHONS INVADE SOUTHEASTERN FLORIDA: STUDY, May 16
Giant pythons capable of swallowing a dog and even an alligator are rapidly making south Florida their home, potentially threatening other southeastern states, a study said.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news130146511.html

NOVEL ENZYME INHIBITOR PAVES WAY FOR NEW CANCER DRUG, May 16
Combining natural organic atoms with metal complexes, scientists at The Wistar Institute have developed a new type of enzyme inhibitor capable of blocking a biochemical pathway that plays a key role in cancer development.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news130151986.html

SCIENTISTS UNVEIL NEW TOOL TO UNDERSTAND EVOLUTION OF MULTI-DOMAIN GENES, May 16
Carnegie Mellon scientists have discovered critical flaws in the standard method used to analyze gene evolution. Standard methods fail when applied to genes that encode multi-domain proteins, an important class of proteins crucial to human health.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news130152057.html

SULFUR IN MARINE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SHIPWRECKS -- THE 'HULL STORY' GIVES A SOUR AFTERTASTE, May 16
Advanced chemical analyses reveal that, with the help of smart scavenging bacteria, sulfur and iron compounds accumulated in the timbers of the Swedish warship Vasa during her 333 years on the seabed of the Stockholm harbour. Contact with oxygen, in conjunction with the high humidity of the museum environment, causes these contaminants to produce sulfuric acid, according to a new doctoral thesis in chemistry from Stockholm University.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news130152247.html

RESEARCHERS IDENTIFY PROTEINS THAT HELP DEVELOP MAMMALIAN HEARTS, May 16
The absence of two proteins in mammalian embryos prevents the development of a healthy heart, a new study by researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, has found.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news130154720.html

ENTREPRENEURS VALUE 'IDEAS' OVER WEATLH, STUDY FINDS, May 16
A study at the University of Liverpool has revealed that entrepreneurs are driven to start companies by their passion for ideas rather than the pursuit of wealth.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news130164408.html



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'$100 LAPTOP' NONPROFIT NOW TEAMED WITH MICROSOFT, May 16
(AP) -- The One Laptop Per Child project is about to find out whether Microsoft Corp., a rival the nonprofit group once derided, is the solution to its problems in spreading inexpensive portable computers to schoolchildren.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news130141841.html

FRANCE'S ORANGE SIGNS NEW IPHONE DEAL WITH APPLE, May 16
(AP) -- French wireless operator Orange said Friday it has signed a deal with Apple Inc. to sell its iPhone in the Middle East, Africa and several European countries.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news130156636.html



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Latest News On TECHNOLOGY:
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GEMSTAR-TV GUIDE EX-CEO NOW WANTED FOR OBSTRUCTION, May 16
(AP) -- Federal authorities said Thursday that former Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc. chairman Henry Yuen is a fugitive after he was indicted on a felony obstruction charge that carries a possible five-year prison term.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news130146203.html

AUTOMOTIVE SAFETY SYSTEMS GET MORE DEPENDABLE, May 16
As automotive safety systems become more complex, the risk of failure increases. But European researchers believe they have found a way to improve dependability.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news130163408.html

INFINEON CEO TO QUIT: REPORT, May 16
The chief executive of troubled German chipmaker Infineon, Wolfgang Ziebart, is to quit after losing the confidence of the board, a newspaper report said Friday.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news130146535.html

NY TIMES, USA TODAY MULTIPLE ONLINE EPPY WINNERS, May 16
(AP) -- The New York Times won three accolades for its Web sites and USA Today won two as the "EPpy Awards" were announced Thursday.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news130145771.html

VIDEO GAME, ACCESSORY SALES JUMP 47 PCT IN APRIL, May 16
(AP) -- Americans spent $1.23 billion on video games, hardware and accessories in April, up 47 percent from a year earlier, even as the price of more essential items like food and gasoline soared.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news130142092.html

DA VINCI TO BE HONORED BY SMALL HELICOPTER FLIGHT, May 16
(AP) -- A Japanese man who developed the world's smallest helicopter will take flight in the birthplace of Leonardo da Vinci in tribute to the Renaissance genius' original idea.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news130141314.html

PRECISION CONTROL OF MOVEMENT IN ROBOTS, May 16
A research team from the Department of Electricity and Electronics at the University of the Basque Country’s Faculty of Science and Technology in Leioa, Spain, led by Victor Etxebarria, is investigating the characteristics of various types of materials for their use in the generation and measurement of precise movements.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news130150921.html

WEATHER, WAVES AND WIRELESS: SUPER STRENGTH SIGNALLING, May 16
A new study from the University of Leicester has discovered a particular window of time when mobile signals and radio waves are ‘super strength’ – allowing them to be clearer and travel greater distances, potentially interfering with other systems.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news130150992.html

HOW DID THAT CHAIN LETTER GET TO MY INBOX?, May 16
Everyone who has an e-mail account has probably received a forwarded chain letter promising good luck if the message is forwarded on to others--or terrible misfortune if it isn't. The sheer volume of forwarded messages such as chain letters, online petitions, jokes and other materials leads to a simple question--how do these messages reach so many people so quickly?
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news130166666.html

A BASEBALL CAP THAT READS YOUR MIND, May 16
It looks like an ordinary baseball cap. But when you put it on, the cap detects and analyzes the electroencephalogram (EEG) signals from your brain. It can even tell you if you’re getting too sleepy when driving based on your brain wave patterns. Similar technology could also allow you to control home electronics such as TVs, computers, and air conditioners, all by just thinking about them.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news130152277.html



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TOP GRADES NOT ALWAYS NEEDED TO BECOME A DOCTOR, May 16
Top A-level results are not always necessary for students to succeed in medicine, according to the authors of a paper in this week’s BMJ. Students with average grades, who come from economically and educationally deprived areas, can do well at medical school provided they have extra academic and pastoral support during their first two years.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news130150786.html

COMMON VIRUS MAY SERVE AS TARGET FOR VACCINE IN FIGHT AGAINST DEADLY BRAIN TUMORS, May 16
By targeting a common virus, doctors may be able to extend the lives of patients diagnosed with the most prevalent and deadly type of brain tumor, according to a study led by researchers in Duke’s Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news130153282.html

LUNG CANCER PATIENTS CAN TOLERATE POST-SURGERY EXERCISE, AND CAN BENEFIT FROM IT, May 16
Patients who have undergone surgical procedures for the removal of lung cancer can tolerate and benefit from exercise regimens started just a month after surgery, according to a new study led by researchers at the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news130153597.html

PROTEIN PREDICTS GLEEVEC RESISTANCE IN GASTROINTESTINAL TUMORS, May 16
Excess amounts of a protein called IGF-1R in patients with gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) could indicate that the patient would be less responsive to the drug imatinib mesylate (known as Gleevec), according to Andrew K. Godwin, Ph.D., a researcher at the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news130154059.html

STUDY SHOWS THAT ADMINISTERING CALCIUM AND MAGNESIUM EFFECTIVELY REDUCES NEUROLOGICAL SENSITIVITY, May 16
Researchers in the North Central Cancer Treatment Group (NCCTG) have shown that patients who receive intravenous calcium and magnesium before and after the chemotherapy drug oxaliplatin for the treatment of advanced colon cancer experience a significantly reduced incidence and severity of neurological side effects (neurotoxicity). This reduction increases the likelihood that patients are able to complete a full course of treatment. The findings were released May 15 as part of the 44th annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news130154775.html

NEW DRUG COMBINATION BRINGS 1-2 PUNCH AGAINST ACUTE LEUKEMIA, May 16
Researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center have discovered a drug combination that kills leukemia cells by shutting down their energy source and hastening cell starvation.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news130156503.html

CHEMOTHERAPY MIGHT HELP CANCER VACCINES WORK, May 16
Chemotherapy given in conjunction with cancer vaccines may boost the immune system’s response, potentially improving the effectiveness of this promising type of cancer therapy, according to a study by researchers in the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news130156748.html

MORE CANCER PATIENTS HAVING WHOLE BREAST REMOVED, May 16
(AP) -- A growing number of women with early stage breast cancer seem to be choosing to have the whole breast removed instead of just the cancerous lump, doctors are reporting.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news130146611.html

CANADA EYES OTC SALE OF PLAN B 'MORNING-AFTER' PILL, May 16
(AP) -- Canada's national pharmacy regulation body is recommending that "morning-after" contraceptive pills be sold over the counter.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news130142134.html

TIPS ON GETTING VITAMIN D FOR CANCER PREVENTION, May 16
(AP) -- Evidence is growing that vitamin D, which the skin makes from sunshine, is linked to lower risk of breast cancer and other cancers. But that doesn't mean it's good to get a golden tan - and certainly not a sunburn.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news130141061.html

SEPARATION FROM MOM, DAD LINKED WITH LEARNING TROUBLE IN KIDS, May 16
In the wake of divorce, illness, violence and other problems that can unsettle homes, countless young children are liable to experience temporary separations from one or both parents before packing their knapsack for kindergarten. Published in the May/June issue of Ambulatory Pediatrics, a new, community-wide study from Rochester, New York, warns that such kids are at increased risk for learning difficulties and that these separations are good predictors of which children may require special educational interventions to succeed.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news130150711.html

NEW RESEARCH TRACKS EFFECTS OF ADDICTIVE DRUGS ON BRAIN, May 16
Mount Sinai researchers may have unlocked the key to better understanding the effect addictive drugs have on the human brain. Researchers have just published the new breakthrough study, “Design Logic of a Cannabinoid Receptor Signaling Network that Triggers Neurite Outgrowth,” in the latest issue of Science on May 16th, 2008.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news130151043.html

BIOSENSOR FOR MEASURING STRESS IN CELLS, May 16
Cancer, nervous system disorders such as Parkinson’s disease, cardiovascular disorders and old age have one thing in common: Both in afflicted tissue and in aging cells, scientists have observed oxidative changes in important biomolecules. These are caused by reactive oxygen molecules, including the notorious “free radicals” that are formed as a by-product of cellular respiration and attack cellular proteins, nucleic and fatty acids.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news130152135.html

DISABLING MOUSE ENZYME INCREASES FERTILITY, May 16
Changing the sugars attached to a hormone produced in the pituitary gland increased fertility levels in mice nearly 50 percent, a research group at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has found. The change appears to alter a reproductive "thermostat," unveiling part of an intricate regulatory system that may one day be used to enhance human fertility.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news130162835.html

BONE DRUG COULD HELP PREVENT THE SPREAD OF BREAST CANCER, May 16
Maintaining bone density could be a key to decreasing the spread of cancer in women with locally advanced breast cancer, according to research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news130162979.html

HIV INFECTION STEMS FROM FEW VIRUSES, May 16
A new study reveals the genetic identity of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the version responsible for sexual transmission, in unprecedented detail.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news130153062.html

GENERAL PRACTITIONERS FILLING THE GAP LEFT BY INADEQUATE DENTAL SERVICES, SAYS DOCTOR, May 16
A shortage of NHS dentists means that general practitioners (GPs) have been left to do dentists’ work without adequate remuneration, argues a doctor in a letter in this week’s BMJ.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news130153467.html

STUDY REVIVES OLYMPIC PROSPECTS FOR AMPUTEE SPRINTER, May 16
A world-renowned team of experts in biomechanics and physiology from six universities, led by Professor Hugh Herr of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab, refute scientific claims that the prostheses worn by Oscar Pistorius, a 21-year-old South African bilateral amputee track athlete, provide him with an unfair advantage in the 400-meter race. Their conclusions were based on data collected at the Rice University Locomotion Laboratory, under the direction of Professor Peter Weyand. Pistorius hopes to run in the 400-meter race at the Beijing Olympics this summer.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news130154664.html

HOW SMALL MOLECULE CAN TAKE APART ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE PROTEIN FIBERS, May 16
Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have shown, in unprecedented detail, how a small molecule is able to selectively take apart abnormally folded protein fibers connected to Alzheimer's disease and prion diseases. The findings appear online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Finding a way to dismantle misfolded proteins has implications for new treatments for a host of neurodegenerative diseases.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news130155043.html

SIGHT RECOVERY AFTER BLINDNESS OFFERS NEW INSIGHTS ON BRAIN REORGANIZATION, May 16
Studies of the brains of blind persons whose sight was partially restored later in life have produced a compelling example of the brain's ability to adapt to new circumstances and rewire and reconfigure itself.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news130163759.html

CANADA SCRAPS PLANS FOR NEW REACTORS FOR MAKING MEDICAL ISOTOPES, May 16
Canada announced Friday it is scrapping development of two new nuclear reactors that would have supplied radioactive materials, essential for medical tests, to most of the world.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news130166098.html






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