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New Backpack 'Exoskeleton'Lightens The Burden In An Unexpected Way
A new device should lighten the burden for soldiers and others who carry heavy packs and equipment. The invention, known as an exoskeleton, can support much of the weight of a heavy backpack and transfer that weight directly to the ground, effectively taking a load off the back of the person wearing the device. Gene Variant Increases Risk For Alcoholism Following Childhood Abuse
Girls who suffered childhood sexual abuse are more likely to develop alcoholism later in life if they possess a particular variant of a gene involved in the body's response to stress, according to a new study. The new finding could help explain why some individuals are more resilient to profound childhood trauma than others. Proteins May Behave Differently In Natural Environments
When in an environment similar to that in which they exist naturally, proteins and multiprotein assemblies may demonstrate actions or dynamics different than those they exhibit when in the static form in which they are most often studied, said researchers at Baylor College of Medicine in a report in the current issue of the journal Structure. Audi Says A3 Models Cut C02
Small Audi models will debut in Europe this spring, and the company claims low CO2 emissions. Plus: DaimlerChrysler's Geneva Surprise In Autopia. Cataloguing Innovation
An intriguing paper on the notion of idea generation came to my attention this week. It’s from the International Journal of Management Practice, which might have suggested something rather dry and off topic, but the first named author Roy Woodhead is in the School of Technology, at Oxford Brookes University, UK and researches in the [...] [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." Greener Ways to the Great Beyond
This article discusses options for environmentally friendly funerals, such as woodland burial sites, biodegradable caskets, and substitutes for traditional embalming. A sidebar article covers do-it-yourself and home funerals. From the website for Mother Earth News magazine. Global Environmental Citizen Award
Details about this award "presented annually by the [Harvard Medical School] Center for Health and the Global Environment to the citizen who does outstanding work towards protecting the global environment."Includes announcements for current and past winners (and acceptance speeches for some), including the Prince of Wales, Al Gore, Bill Moyers, Jane Goodall, Harrison Ford, and Edward O. Wilson. No Matter Their Size Black Holes 'Feed' In The Same Way
Research by UK astronomers reveals that the processes at work in black holes of all sizes are the same and that supermassive black holes are simply scaled up versions of small Galactic black holes. For many years astronomers have been trying to understand the similarities between stellar-mass sized Galactic black hole systems and the supermassive black holes in active galactic nuclei (AGN). Mayo Clinic Researchers Create 'Obedient Virus'; First Step To Use Mea
An international team of Mayo Clinic-led researchers is first to devise a system that consistently converts the measles virus into a therapeutic killer that hunts down and destroys cancer cells -- and cancer cells only. Their research findings appear as an advanced electronic article of Nature Biotechnology.
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