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World War II in the Pacific: Japan Capitulates, August - September 194
Images and information from the U.S. Department of the Navy's Naval Historical Center about Japan's surrender to the Allies in World War II, on August 14, 1945 (known as V-J Day). Includes images of victory celebrations, different aspects of the surrender, and related events in World War II. September 11: Bearing Witness to History
This companion website for an exhibit from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History "represents a work in progress. It embodies the best efforts of staff ... to document and preserve a wide range of stories about September 11."The site features clear, well-organized images of objects representing "the material record of this important event in American history."Includes personal narratives by the curators. Make It a Double -- Ethanol
Even if car manufacturers embrace another tech than ethanol power, the appetite for booze and cough syrup will surely stick around. So researchers are trying to make food-grade ethanol. Corn martini, anyone? Scientists Use World's Fastest Supercomputer To Create The Largest HIV
In a new study the evolutionary history of more than 10,000 sequences from more than 400 HIV-infected individuals was compared. The idea is to identify common features of the transmitted virus, and attempt to create a vaccine that enables recognition the original transmitted virus before the body's immune response causes the virus to react and mutate. Loss Of Fruit Fly Retinal Protein Delays Blinding Light Damage
In experiments with fruit flies, Johns Hopkins researchers have found that blindness induced by constant light results directly from the loss of a key light-detecting protein, rather than from the overall death of cells in the retina, which in humans is a light-sensitive tissue at the back of the eye. Brain Images Show Hysteria Not An Imaginary Disorder
In what's being called a novel finding, researchers using brain scans have uncovered evidence of cerebral dysfunction in women with sensory conversion disorder, better known as hysteria. The study's findings open up a new window to understanding hysteria, an unexplained neurological disorder in which a patient complains of symptoms, but doctors can't find anything medically wrong with them. The study is published in the December 12, 2006, issue of the journal Neurology. No Blind Mice, Thanks To University Of Florida Scientists
University of Florida stem cell scientists reported today (Jan. 3) that they have prevented blindness in mice afflicted with a condition similar to one that robs thousands of diabetic Americans of their eyesight each year. New Study Of Tree Roots Will Alter Carbon-sequestration Models
Using a new carbon tracing method, Argonne ecologists and their colleagues have determined that life spans of fine tree roots are much longer than expected and differ according to the species. The fine roots of pine trees last four to six years, while sweetgum roots have shorter life spans of 1.3 to three years. Primates' social intelligence overestimated: Primates groom others if
The grooming behavior displayed by primates is due to less rational behavior than often thought. According to a computer model, one basic rule explains all possible grooming patterns: individuals will groom others if they're afraid they'll lose from them in a fight. [Ironic] An Italian pensioner committed suicide after his wife fell in
Recalling the end of Romeo and Juliet, the 70-year-old man, Ettore, who had sat by his wife's bedside for four months after she slipped into a coma following a heart attack, finally gave up hope and gassed himself in the garage of his family home.Less than a day later, his wife, Rossana, woke up in her hospital bed in Padua and immediately asked for him.
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