Topic: General Science News

May 22, 2008

Obesity linked to quantity of sleep

Getting enough quality sleep can affect your weight and overall heatlh - and so can too much:People who sleep fewer than six hours a night - or more than nine - are more likely to be obese, according to a... ... more

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Study Says Celery's Brain-Saving Pigment May Fight Alzheimer's And Multiple Sclerosis

In a study using mice that suggested some plants help protect the brain, luteolin, a chemical in celery, reduced brain inflammation linked to Alzheimer's disease: [...] The compound, luteolin, has been shown in previous studies to hinder inflammation in cells... ... more

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May 6, 2008

Secondhand Smoke Exposure Can Cause Cell Damage In 30 Minutes

According to CDC data, cigarette smoking is the single most preventable cause of premature death in the United States, with more than 400,000 Americans dying from cigarette smoking each year (one in every five deaths in the United States is... ... more

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April 1, 2008

Green Tea Boosts Antibiotics for Superbugs

There's almost on other food or drink reported to have as many health benefits as green tea. The Chinese have known about the medicinal benefits of green tea since ancient times, and used it to treat everything from headaches to... ... more

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March 16, 2008

Lack Of Sleep Can Contribute To Weight Gain

As pointed out in the February 2003 article, "Cellular Warriors at the Battle of the Bulge," investigations in molecular genetics have yielded a rush of information about molecular signals that regulate body weight. Some guide short-term decisions, such as whether... ... more

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July 5, 2007

Flying Dragons And Dinosaur Soup

Villagers in central China have come up with an interesting source for making soup stock and treating dizziness and leg cramps in children. Believing that they came from flying dragons and had healing powers, they dug up a ton of... ... more

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June 21, 2007

The DIY Guide to Becoming a (Real) Cyborg

Here's something a little different to think about. The Free Geek notes that a scientific duo at Tel-Aviv University discovered this past month that the injection of a chemical stimulant into an artificial culture of live neurons at crucial points... ... more

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June 8, 2007

Science News: Light Bulb Powered Wirelessly From 7 Feet Away

[Image: A 60-watt light bulb being lit from two meters away without an obstruction (Science Magazine via Fox News)] Power-up cell phones, laptops, MP3 players, household robots and other electronics without wires or batteries? No problem, just use "WiTricity": Using... ... more

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April 15, 2007

Dying Star Bursts in Near-Perfect Symmetry

Just in case you missed hearing about the newly discovered Red Square nebula: Seen in the infrared, the nebula resembles a giant, glowing red box in the sky, with a bright white inner core. A dying star called MWC 922... ... more

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December 20, 2006

First Matter? If So, Where Did It Come From?

[Photo - NASA/JPL-Caltech/GSFC (via Mark Tapscott) Mark Tapscott has a post up on NASA's incredible photos from the Spitzer telescope of what scientists believe to be the universe shortly after the Big Bang more than 13 billion years ago.... ... more

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September 27, 2006

Scientists Complete Murine Brain Map

It took a graduate student in her lab almost a whole year to map the brain expression pattern of a single transporter gene, ... Now, anyone can simply type a gene's name into the site and view its expression profile.

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July 26, 2005

Study Finds Stressed-Out Worms Die Young

More active stress responses suggest the animal is coping with the stress. The scientists suggest that the findings will almost certainly carryover to humans in some way.

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Albatross chicks attacked by mice

UK conservationists report that "Supersize" mice are eating seabird chicks alive on Gough Island, one of the most important seabird colonies in the world.

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