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In the wake of sweatshop charges, Apple advertises for a manager of a Corporate Social Responsibility program, to help improve human rights and worker conditions. In Cult of Mac. 2000-year-old Statue Of An Athlete Sheds Light On Corrosion And Other
The restoration of a 2,000-year-old bronze sculpture of the famed ancient Greek athlete Apoxyomenos may help modern scientists understand how to prevent metal corrosion, discover the safest ways to permanently store nuclear waste, and understand other perplexing problems. How Flowers Form: New Insight
Flowers of higher plants are built in a similar pattern: their outermost whorl is composed of sepals, which protect the young bud, thereafter comes a whorl of often colorful petals attracting insect pollinators, followed by a whorl of stamens with pollen sacks and the innermost whorl holds carpels, which later give rise to the fruit and seeds. Scientists investigated a mutant of snapdragon where stamens form instead of petals. New Equation Helps Unravel Behavior Of Turbulence
Researchers have discovered a mathematical formula that may enable more precise models of turbulence, with practical implications in areas as diverse as weather forecasting, pollutant control, engine design and astrophysics. Women Persist In Plastic Surgery Treatments That Are Not Working, Rese
Women are more likely to persist with using creams, supplements and plastic surgery to look younger if they feel these are not yet working, new research says. Researchers found that when women want to avoid a feared self-image, they kept trying if they perceive themselves to be failing, but as soon as they began to succeed their anxiety lessened and they stopped trying. Fused Genes Can Trigger Development Of Prostate Cancer
Scientists at the University of Michigan Medical School have discovered a recurring pattern of scrambled chromosomes and abnormal gene activity that occurs only in prostate cancer. Nanoscale Study Gives New Insight Into Heat Transfer In Biological Sys
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found that heat may actually move better across interfaces between liquids than it does between solids. The findings, which were published online Oct. 11 in the journal Nano Letters, provide insights that could prove useful in fields ranging from computer chip manufacturing to cancer treatment. Seventeenth-century Islamic brassmakers were far ahead of European pee
Lehigh University graduate student, utilizing the Advanced Photon Source Synchrotron at Argonne National Laboratories, says the the high zinc content in astrolabes fabricated in Lahore (now in Pakistan) proves that brass made there in the early 1600s was produced by a co-melting technique that was not developed in Europe until the 19th century. Method Holds Promise In Identifying Markers Of Non-metastatic Vs. Meta
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have used a new strategy to identify differences between non-metastatic and highly metastatic breast cancer cells. The article by Valerie Montel et al., "Expression profiling of primary tumors and matched lymphatic and lung metastases in a xenogeneic breast cancer model,"appears in the May 2005 issue of The American Journal of Pathology and is accompanied by a commentary. Stanford Patient Is First To Test New Treatment For Peripheral Arteria
Stanford researchers recently implanted a drug-coated, flexible, metal-mesh tube called a drug-eluting stent into the superficial femoral artery in a patient's thigh. Researchers hope the drug coating will make it more likely to prevent the blockage from recurring, as compared with uncoated stents, which fail to do so in about one-quarter of the cases.
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