World / Science & Education
Plumage breakthrough for dinosaurs
08.07.2008 21:12
telegraph.co.uk
The ability to reconstruct the colour of fossil feathers that adorned the first birds and their ancestors, the dinosaurs, has come from a newly reported discovery, writes Roger Highfield.
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Science & Education
Sweaty music find could help develop new treatments
08.07.2008 21:12
telegraph.co.uk
Good music makes us sweat more, according to a study that shows how it taps into ancient brain circuits. Roger Highfield explains.
Great Britain
Science & Education
Songbirds have superfast muscles
08.07.2008 21:11
telegraph.co.uk
The Starling can contract its vocal muscles 100 times faster than humans can blink an eye - placing the birds among an elite animals with "superfast" muscles.Roger Highfield explains.
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Science & Education
How we keep our ancient reptilian wits about us
08.07.2008 20:12
telegraph.co.uk
Modern man still relies on ancient, reptilian brain centres to make life-or-death decisions because they are faster thinking than the ones that make us human. Roger Highfield explains.
Great Britain
Science & Education
G-8 Leaders Pledge to Cut Emissions in Half by 2050
08.07.2008 20:10
nytimes.com
Environmentalists criticized the pledge because it failed to set a short-term goal for emissions cuts.
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Sciences
New Book Offers Advice to Minorities to Navigate and Succeed in Corporate America
08.07.2008 12:26
prweb.com
One of corporate America's highest ranking African Americans shares his experience in recently released book, "Good is Not Enough: And Other Unwritten Rules for Minority Professionals". (PRWeb Jul 8, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/07/prweb1082164.htm
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Schools & Gymnasia
Local Maryland Mediator Awarded Volunteer Mediator of the Year
08.07.2008 12:26
prweb.com
Patricia Ritchie, co-founder and CEO of Peace by Peace, LLC, has been named the Community Mediation Volunteer of the Year by Community Mediation Maryland. (PRWeb Jul 8, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/mediation/conflict_resolution/prweb1084584.htm
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Schools & Gymnasia
Nuclear industry undermined by savage science cuts
08.07.2008 12:11
telegraph.co.uk
Roger Highfield: Cuts of up to 40 per cent in grants to scientists have been announced, triggering a warning they could undermine the nation’s ability to build and decommission nuclear power plants.
Great Britain
Science & Education
Hurricane Bertha begins to weaken in Atlantic
08.07.2008 12:02
reuters.com
MIAMI (Reuters) - The first hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic storm season began to weaken on Tuesday in the open Atlantic as it headed in the direction of Bermuda, U.S. forecasters said.
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Science & Education
New vaccine sneaks into body, then self-destructs
08.07.2008 11:02
reuters.com
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new type of vaccine that sneaks into the body and then self-destructs -- all without needles -- may offer a new way to protect against a range of diseases, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
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Science & Education
Hurricane Bertha strengthens to "major" storm
08.07.2008 11:02
reuters.com
MIAMI (Reuters) - Strengthening far more swiftly and vigorously than predicted, Hurricane Bertha became a "major" hurricane in the open Atlantic on Monday, with sustained winds of at least 115 miles per hour (185 kph), U.S. forecasters said.
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Science & Education
FDA OKs Invitrogen genetic test for breast cancer
08.07.2008 11:02
reuters.com
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved Invitrogen Corp's genetic test for determining whether patients with breast cancer are good candidates for treatment with the drug Herceptin.
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Science & Education
Magnitude 6 quake startles southern Peru
08.07.2008 11:01
reuters.com
AREQUIPA, Peru (Reuters) - A magnitude 6.0 earthquake rattled southern Peru early on Tuesday, startling residents in the Andean country's second-largest city, Arequipa, who ran out of their homes into the streets.
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Science & Education
New Targets Identified For RNAs That Regulate Genes
08.07.2008 10:14
medicalnewstoday.com
Tiny strands of genetic material called RNA - a chemical cousin of DNA - are emerging as major players in gene regulation, the process inside cells that drives all biology and that scientists seek to control in order to fight disease. The idea that RNA (ribonucleic acid) is involved in activating and inhibiting genes is relatively new, and it has been unclear how RNA strands might regulate the process.
World
Biology
After-School All-Stars of New York to Receive $6 Million Over Six Years
08.07.2008 09:35
prweb.com
After-School All-Stars, a national organization focused on after-school programming for at-risk youth, announced today that After-School All-Stars New York (ASASNY) has been awarded two 21st Century Community Learning Center (21st CCLC) grants from New York State Department of Education totaling $6 million in renewable funding over five years. (PRWeb Jul 8, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/07/prweb1082174.htm
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