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- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 1 minutes
- Episodes
- 80
- Years Active
- 2008 - 2010
Combined Forces
Cancer cells use tricks to hide from our body's immune system. One trick is to mask their presence in the body. Now, a bioengineer from Yale University has created cell-sized plastic spheres that b…
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Thu 24 Jul 2008
Car Watch
The annoying blare of an ignored car alarm may become a sound of the past if a cooperative, muteable and silent network of monitors proposed by Penn State University researchers is deployed in automo…
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Thu 24 Jul 2008
Degrees of Survival
University of Washington scientists have found that species living in the tropical centers of the world are likely to face greater peril from global warming than those species located in cooler clima…
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Tue 15 Jul 2008
Primal Urges
A mass grave of skeletons in southwestern Germany suggests that neighboring tribes from prehistoric times were prepared to kill their male rivals to secure their women.
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Tue 15 Jul 2008
Happy Trails
Americans grow happier as they grow older, according to social science researchers at the University of Chicago, whose 33-year study is one of the most thorough examinations of happiness ever done in…
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Thu 26 Jun 2008
Frogantuan
A team of researchers, led by a Stony Brook University paleontologist, discovered the remains of what may be the largest frog ever to exist. The fossilized remains of this 16-inch, 10-pound ancient …
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Thu 26 Jun 2008
Links in E-mail Chain Letters Not Well Connected
It was once thought that e-mail chain letters traveled to internet users in much the same way that disease spreads during an epidemic--people receive a message and then pass it on to those they come …
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Thu 26 Jun 2008
Fragrant Violation
Air pollution from power plants and automobiles is diminishing the fragrance of flowers and thereby inhibiting the ability of pollinating insects to follow scent trails to their source, a new Univers…
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Thu 26 Jun 2008
True Lies
Two researchers at Cornell University argue that children are more likely to tell the truth while under oath in court because their minds depend heavily on remembering what actually occurred, as oppo…
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Mon 09 Jun 2008
Maglev Mouse
Thanks to a touch-based interface developed at Carnegie Mellon University, computers that have long been used as tools in designing and manipulating three-dimensional objects may soon provide people …
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Mon 09 Jun 2008
Blues Light Special
A team of behavioral scientists from four major U.S. universities found that people who feel sad and self-focused are willing to pay more money for goods than those in neutral states of feeling.
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Tue 20 May 2008
On A Roll
MIT and University of Rochester researchers report important advances toward a therapeutic device that has the potential to capture cells as they flow through the blood stream and to treat them. Amon…
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Tue 20 May 2008
Caf? Latte Batte
At a time when bat populations are declining worldwide, a new University of Michigan study shows the bat's impact on ecological systems. The study reveals that bats exceed birds in their ability to d…
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Mon 12 May 2008
Tiny Tunes
Researchers at the University of Rochester have made it possible to digitally reproduce music in a file nearly 1,000 times smaller than a regular MP3 file by recreating in a computer both the real wo…
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Mon 12 May 2008
Gasoline Plant
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst have made a breakthrough in the development of green gasoline, a liquid identical to standard gasoline yet created from sustainable biomass sour…
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Tue 22 Apr 2008
Tropical Hunch
Using global databases and sophisticated computer models to analyze patterns of emerging diseases, scientists from four well-known institutions are able for the first time to plot, map and predict wh…
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Fri 11 Apr 2008
Companion Pieces
New research at the University of Chicago finds evidence for a clever way that people manage to alleviate the pain of loneliness: They create people in their surroundings to keep them company.
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Thu 03 Apr 2008
Flight Path
A new study from the University of Montana Flight Laboratory regarding the evolution of flight suggests birds evolved by learning to use their wings to run up steep surfaces in order to avoid predato…
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Mon 24 Mar 2008
Vote of Confidence?
Electronic voting technology easily passes the tests of voter confidence and satisfaction, but users still make too many mistakes, says a major new study led by the University of Maryland and conduct…
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Mon 17 Mar 2008
Systematic Search
A team of international astronomers reported the discovery of a solar system nearly 5,000 light years away containing scaled-down versions of Jupiter and Saturn, suggesting that our galaxy could conc…
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Thu 28 Feb 2008
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