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Titan's Enigmatic Infrared-Bright Spot Is Surface Make-Up
A 300-mile-wide patch that outshines everything else on Titan at long infrared wavelengths appears not to be a mountain, a cloud or a geologically active hot spot, University of Arizona scientists and Cassini team members say. The bright spot occurs where visible-wavelength imaging cameras of NASA's Cassini spacecraft photographed a bright arc-shaped feature approximately the same size in December 2004 and February 2005.
Sundance Sells Its Indie Cachet
It used to be a quaint little independent film fest. Now it's become a "hipster's Disney," the film industry's top tastemaker in the era of digital video. By Jason Silverman. Chemists Characterize Alzheimer's Plaque Precursor
Using a nuclear magnetic resonance technique, University of Illinois at Chicago chemists have obtained the first molecular-level images of precursors of bundled fibrils that form the brain plaques seen in Alzheimer's disease. Tumor Individuality Useful For Guiding Rational Chemotherapeutic Decis
A new study describes in detail exactly how the chemotherapeutic drug paclitaxel induces cell death in tumor cells and how common mutations in human tumors confer drug resistance, and demonstrates that combination treatment can restore therapeutic effectiveness of the drug. Emory Researchers Offer New Approach For Testing Potential HIV Vaccine
Emory University researchers have proposed a new design for HIV vaccine trials in animals that would more closely mimic how humans are exposed to the virus -- potentially giving AIDS researchers a more effective tool in developing successful treatments to prevent HIV infection. Computer Game Helps Autistic Children Recognize Emotions
An interactive computer software program called FaceSay?has been shown to improve the ability of children with autism spectrum disorders to recognize faces, facial expressions and emotions, according to a study recently conducted by psychologists. Ian's Shoelace Site
"How many possible ways are there to lace an average shoe?"The author presents nearly two dozen methods he considers "worthy of devoting the time required to create instructions"Includes illustrations, and information about shoelace knots, aiglet ("the plastic or metal sleeves at the ends of shoelaces") repair, and shoelace length formulas. Midday Sun Holds The Key To Good Health
Scientists at The University of Manchester have today unveiled new research which claims that going out in the midday sun, without sunscreen, is good for you. Return to the African Burial Ground
This 2003 interview with the physical anthropologist who was the director of the African Burial Ground Project discusses how "on October 3, 2003, the remains of more than 400 enslaved people arrived in New York and were taken in a procession up Broadway to their final resting place, the African Burial Ground, from which they had been removed 12 years ago [1991]."Includes photos from the event. From the Archaeological Institute of America. Marshfield Clinic Researchers Launch Study Of Environmental Causes Of
Marshfield Clinic researchers have begun searching for genetic and environmental links to Alzheimer's disease as a first step toward developing diagnostic markers to identify people at risk before they develop the disease. According to Marshfield Clinic Epidemiologist Catherine McCarty, Ph.D., principal investigator of the Personalized Medicine Research Project and co-investigator of the Alzheimer's study. "We are the first that I know of to look at the interaction between genetics and environment on the risk of disease."
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