In the News
Recreational Cocaine Use May Impair Inhibitory Control
Researchers employed the 'stop-signal paradigm'to measure the length of time taken by subjects to initiate and suppress a prepared reaction. The results show that while both recreational users of cocaine and non-users performed similarly in terms of response initiation, users needed significantly more time to inhibit their responses. Engineers Help To Save And Reconstruct The Past
Each time an ancient vase disintegrates, a ceramic tile crumbles or a painting cracks and fades, another link with our past is lost and we understand just a little less about where we came from and, ultimately, who we are. When the last artisan dies and an ancient technology is lost, we're similarly impoverished, says Pamela Vandiver, an internationally recognized expert in artifact preservation and, now, a professor at The University of Arizona. NASA Researchers Discover Planet With Largest Solid Core
NASA researchers recently discovered the largest solid core ever found in an extrasolar planet, and their discovery confirms a planet formation theory. "For theorists, the discovery of a planet with such a large core is as important as the discovery of the first extrasolar planet around the star 51 Pegasi in 1995,"said Shigeru Ida, theorist from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. [Scary] Pregnant woman says 'maternal instinct' helped her kill attack
FORT MITCHELL, Ky. - A pregnant woman who killed her attacker said a maternal instinct helped her fight off the woman who investigators believe was after her unborn child."I do believe that I fought harder because it was for my child,"Sarah Brady told ABC's "Good Morning America"in interviews aired Sunday and Monday. "It is a maternal instinct to protect your child to the very end."Katherine Smith, 22, died Thursday after luring Brady to her apartment to pick up a package supposedly delivered to the wrong address. When Smith pulled out a knife and attacked the pregnant woman, Brady fought back, striking Smith on the head with an ash tray and stabbing her three times with her own knife, police said. Brady, 26, said she didn't know Smith before the two met at Smith's apartment and can't be certain why Smith wanted to kill her."I really am not sure what was going through her mind,"Brady told ABC. "The only thing I thought was that she was going to kill me and my child and that is the only thing that ran through my mind." Alexander Litvinenko dead
Former Russian spy, defector, and activist-writer Alexander Litvinenko has died in a London hospital of suspected poisoning with radioactive thallium.Litvinenko’s friend Alexander Goldfarb read a statement prepared by the former spy on his deathbed just two days before he passed away. In that statement, Litvinenko lays the blame for his poisoning firmly at the feet [...] Compound From Olive-pomace Oil Inhibits HIV Spread
Researchers from the University of Granada and Hospital Carlos III in Madrid, verified that maslinic acid -- found in wax from olive skin -- inhibits serin-protease, the enzyme used by HIV to release itself from the infected cell into the extracellular environment. First Known Gunshot Victim Of New World Found In Peruvian Inca Cemeter
Archaeologists have uncovered the skeleton of the first documented gunshot victim in the New World in an Inca cemetery outside Lima, Peru. The body is thought to be the first forensically proven casualty of the Spanish conquest, one of 72 apparent victims of an uprising against the conquistadors. Phosphorus Found To Be Another Culprit In Gulf Of Mexico's 'Dead Zone'
Nitrogen is flowing down the Mississippi River and into the Gulf of Mexico faster than it can be consumed by floating microscopic plants called phytoplankton, increasing the size of the "dead zone"off the Louisiana coast. The findings, based on analysis of data gathered in 2001, are published online this week in the journal Environmental Science and Technology. Capturing Carbon A Key Benefit Of No-Till Soil Management
No-till soil management can play an important role in keeping carbon in the soil, rather than allowing it to escape into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, according to a cooperative study by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and Brazilian scientists at Beltsville, Md. AMD-Based Macs Forecast
Taiwan electronics manufacturers say Apple will soon deliver machines based on processors from Intel rival Advanced Micro Devices. In Gear Factor.
MP3 Music Downloads
Preview songs, Download Free Music,Burn CDs at ITunes.com
 
|
