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Nanotechnology Confronts The 'Bad Hair Day,' Tests New Conditioner
Ohio State University researchers have just completed the first comprehensive study of human hair on the nanometer level. Special equipment enabled Bharat Bhushan and his colleagues to get an unprecedented close-up look at a rogue's gallery of bad hair days -- from chemically overprocessed locks to curls kinked up by humidity. Electronic Lab Notebooks Useful For Teaching, But Not Ready To Replace
Electronic laboratory notebooks can be a valuable part of a college science education but are not yet a substitute for traditional paper laboratory notebooks, according to a Duke University chemistry instructor. Tuberculosis Breaches Borders, But Not Public Health
Immigrants from countries with high rates of tuberculosis who move to countries of low TB incidence do not pose a public health threat to native citizens, according to researchers in Norway, who analyzed the incidence and genetic origins of all known cases of TB in the country between 1993 and 2005. U.S. Census Bureau Facts for Features: Anniversary of Americans With D
"On this day in 1990, President George H.W. Bush signed into law the Americans with Disabilities Act, guaranteeing equal opportunity for people with disabilities in public accommodations, commercial facilities, employment, transportation, state and local government services and telecommunications."The site provides a selection of statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau about the population distribution of people with a disability, the employment rate for people with disabilities, and related information. Biodesign Institute Leads Innovative Project To Prevent Cancer
Biodesign Institute researchers have received nearly $9 million in grants from the Department of Defense's Innovator Award and the W. M. Keck Foundation to develop a preventive vaccine against breast cancer and see if their work can be applied to other forms of cancer. The grants mark the first major federal and private awards for the approach and ramp up a cancer research collaborative initiative with the Mayo Clinic. NASA's Marshall Center Successfully Tests 48-inch Solid Rocket Motor
A scaled-down version of the Space Shuttle's Reusable Solid Rocket Motor was successfully tested March 24 at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. The 28-second firing tested a 48-inch-diameter, modified NASA motor. Some Types Of Temporary Neurological Problems Associated With Increase
Patients who experience symptoms described as transient neurological attacks, such as temporary amnesia or confusion, may have a higher risk for stroke and dementia, according to a study in the Dec. 26 issue of JAMA. Gendered Age Differences Expected Among Oscar Nominees
If the women who are nominated for Academy Awards next Tuesday tend to be younger than the male nominees, it's more likely to be a reflection of the length of their film acting experience than gendered age discrimination, according to a Rice University sociologist who has compared more than seven decades' worth of statistics on Oscar nominees. Scientists Develop Artwork That Changes To Suit Your Mood
Computer scientists from Bath and Boston have developed electronic artwork that changes to match the mood of the person who is looking at it.Using images collected through a Web cam, special software recognizes eight key facial features that characterize the emotional state of the person viewing the artwork.It then adapts the colors and brush strokes of the digital artwork to suit the changing mood of the viewer. Ambiguous aspirin
Two back-to-back papers in Angewandte Chemie recently could have potentially serious consequences for the pharmaceutical industry, because they reveal what the authors claim are inherent ambiguities in the crystalline forms of aspirin.A team of scientists from Denmark, Germany, and India suggest that the recently reported form II of the ubiquitous pharmaceutical may indeed exist but [...]
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