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Imaging The Sun And Solar Wind In 3-D
The two Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) spacecraft arrive at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. on Nov. 9 for major testing as they near completion. Set to launch in Spring 2006, STEREO is the first mission to image the sun and solar wind in 3-D. This new view is critical to improving our understanding of space weather and its impact to space and on Earth systems. Recent Tax Law Changes May Affect People Giving to Charity: IRS Offers
This fact sheet discusses changes from summer 2006 legislation that "offers older owners of individual retirement accounts [IRAs] a new way to give to charity. It also includes rules designed to provide both taxpayers and the government greater certainty in determining what may be deducted as a charitable contribution."Topics include a new tax break for IRA owners and rules for deducting clothing and household items and monetary donations. From the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Crucial Roles In Drosophila Development For Little-Known Protein
The Notch pathway is an important mechanism for communication between cells. In this paper, the roles of two related proteins in the Notch pathway are unravelled. Carving New Frontiers For Ion-Beam Technology
An ion-beam system that simultaneously combines focused beams of electrons and positive ions promises to improve the versatility, efficiency, and economy of this important technology. The new system was developed by researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, who report its principles and applications in the November 8, 2004 issue of Applied Physics Letters. Out Of Gas: Sediments In Northern Gulf Of Mexico Not Right For Methane
Marine sediments in the northern Gulf of Mexico are likely too warm and salty to hold the amount of methane gas hydrates -- a potential energy resource -- originally thought to exist in the ocean floor there. New Treatment Suitable For All Patients With Least Treatable Brain Tum
A three-drug cocktail may one day improve outcomes in patients with glioblastoma multiforme, a scientists are working on the third -- all targeted to kill or impair cancer cells and spare healthy brain. [Ironic] An Italian pensioner committed suicide after his wife fell in
Recalling the end of Romeo and Juliet, the 70-year-old man, Ettore, who had sat by his wife's bedside for four months after she slipped into a coma following a heart attack, finally gave up hope and gassed himself in the garage of his family home.Less than a day later, his wife, Rossana, woke up in her hospital bed in Padua and immediately asked for him. Solving The Mystery Of Centuries-old Caribbean Ant Plagues
Harvard entomologist Edward O. Wilson believes he's solved twin centuries-old mysteries of Caribbean island ant plagues that devastated local agriculture. If Wilson is right, the episodes show that environmental problems from invasive species began just decades after Europeans came to the New World. The growing problem of biopiracy
Say you had spent twenty-odd years grubbing around in the soils on a tropical island hunting for microbial fungi that produce a whole bunch of antibiotic compounds or maybe you spotted a herbalist working with a rare plant of amazing medicinal power. The commercial side of your brain immediately spots an opportunity and the fundamental scientist in you recognises a beautiful discovery...do you turn bio-pirate? Beetle-inspired Switch Uses Water For Bonding
A new switch designed by Cornell University engineers uses water droplets to create very strong adhesive bonds that can flicked on and off in an instant. The switch was inspired by a mechanism found in palm beetles and is described in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Vol. 102 (34) 11974-11979, 2005).
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