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Trikke: Next Big Thing for Kids?
A three-wheeled scooter created by a Brazilian inventor gives riders the sensation of skating downhill with control. Promoters hope it will catch on like the hula hoop or pet rocks. Nanoparticles Carry Chemotherapy Drug Deeper Into Solid Tumors
A new drug delivery method using nano-sized molecules to carry the chemotherapy drug doxorubicin to tumors improves the effectiveness of the drug in mice and increases their survival time, according to a new study. In the past, similar drug carriers have improved targeted delivery of the drugs and reduced toxicity, but they sometimes decreased the drugs'ability to kill the tumor cells. Singers (and Parents) Take Note: Worst Songbird Rehearsals Precede Bes
According to a new study, sleep helps young birds learn the art of song, but it does so in a surprising way. The study reveals that when zebra finches first wake up, they are dramatically worse singers than they were the previous day. Moreover, individual birds that initially perform the worst during their morning "rehearsals"eventually become the best singers of all. Google Meets Sherlock Holmes
In any one day, homeland security and law enforcement agencies might sift through thousands of complex and often contradictory clues about potential terrorist threats. These clues can be buried in a landslide of raw text, recorded messages, surveillance data, and bank records that would fill millions of iPods each day. To thwart another Sept. 11, analysts must meld the encyclopedic eye of Google-age technology with Sherlock Holmes's inductive genius. Live Operators Crucial Factor For Public Health Department Disease-rep
Public health departments that staff disease-reporting hotlines with live operators at all times are more likely to meet federal guidelines designed to help stop the spread of infectious diseases, according to a RAND Corp. study issued today. Astronomers Take Revealing Peek At Star Factory
Using NASA's orbiting Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer, a team of astronomers from The Johns Hopkins University and elsewhere has taken an unprecedented peek beneath the "skirts"of the tunic-clad Orion the Hunter and come away with observations that may lead to enhanced knowledge of how interstellar dust absorbs and scatters ultraviolet starlight. Preventive Ovary Removal Linked To Early Death In Younger Women, Mayo
Death rates rise when women under 45 years old undergo bilateral ovariectomy -- surgical removal of both ovaries -- and do not receive proper hormone replacement therapy, according to a new Mayo Clinic study to be published in the October 1 issue of The Lancet Oncology. Mortality from all causes increased 1.7 times for women in this age category, and was particularly increased for estrogen-related cancers and diseases of the brain and cardiovascular system. Sugar-coated polymer is new weapon against allergies and asthma
Scientists have developed sugar-coated polymer strands that selectively kill off cells involved in triggering aggressive allergy and asthma attacks. Their advance is a significant step toward crafting pharmaceuticals to fight these often life-endangering conditions in a new way. Microsoft Releases IE7
It's the first major upgrade for Internet Explorer in years. Many say it's nothing new, that Microsoft is simply playing catch-up to features in Firefox and Opera and trying to regain market share. Gravely Gorgeous: Gargoyles, Grotesques &the Nineteenth-Century Imagin
This site is a companion to an exhibit about the admiration by Victorians of the Gothic style of architectural decoration of cathedrals, which featured gargoyles ("decorative waterspouts that preserve stonework") and grotesques (that "serve a variety of other practical and ornamental functions, as corbels or capitals, for instance"). Includes a gallery of images and a glossary. From the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
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