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Petroleum Reserves
Overview of U.S. petroleum reserves, including the Strategic Petroleum Reserve ("the largest stockpile of government-owned emergency crude oil in the world,"stored along the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast), the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve, and the Naval Petroleum and Oil Shale Reserves. From the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Fossil Energy. Free-energy Theory Borne Out In Large-scale Protein Folding
Scientists at Rice University have combined theory and experiment for the first time to both predict theoretically and verify experimentally the protein-folding dynamics of a large, complex protein. The interdisciplinary research appears this week in two back-to-back papers in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The study involved pioneering efforts to establish comparable experimental and theoretical data, and Rice's team believes the method can be applied to other proteins. [Funny] A referee has sent himself off in an English amateur league ma
Andy Wain had to abandon the Sunday league match between Peterborough North End and a Royal Mail side in the 63rd minute after throwing down his whistle and marching up to confront North End's keeper. Butterfly Migration Could Be Largest Known
Millions of painted lady butterflies that fluttered into California's Central Valley in the last week of March could be just the advance guard of one of the largest migrations of the species on record, said Arthur Shapiro, a professor and an expert on butterflies at UC Davis. Largest-ever database for liver proteins may lead to treatments for he
Scientists in China are reporting for the first time assembly of the largest-ever collection of data about the proteins produced by genes in a single human organ. Their focus was the liver, and their massive database in both protein and transcript levels could become a roadmap for finding possible new biomarkers and treatments for liver disease. Those include hepatitis and liver cancer, which is at epidemic levels in China and affects millions of people worldwide. CRS Report for Congress: Pages of the United States Congress: Selectio
This Congressional Research Service (CRS) fact sheet, updated in August 2006, describes the selection and duties of the "approximately 100"high school juniors who "serve principally as messengers"in the U.S. Congress each year. "Pages must be appointed and sponsored by a Member of Congress for one or two semesters of a school year, or a summer session."Opens directly into a PDF document. Latest Views Of Intriguing Variable Star's Light Echo From Hubble
Hubble has returned to the intriguing variable star V838 Monocerotis many times since its initial outburst in 2002, to follow the evolution of its light echo. Two new images provide the most astonishing views of V838 to date. Genetic Defects Give The Immune System The Green Light To Attack The P
Scientists at Joslin Diabetes Center have found genetic regions that, when defective, allow the immune system to attack the pancreas -- the first in a series of mis-steps that lead to type 1 diabetes. Armed with these findings, published today, March 22, in the journal Immunity, the researchers are now trying to hone in on the exact genes involved, in mice and in human patients. NIAID Scientists Characterize The Most Infectious Prion Protein Partic
A new study of prions--apparently malformed proteins that initiate deadly brain diseases such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans--has yielded surprising information about how the size of prions relates to their infectivity. Scientists have found that small prions are much more efficiently infectious than large ones, yet there also is a lower size limit, below which infectivity is lost. 50 Whys to Leave Your Lover
Of all the reasons to dump someone, "we met online" is a terrible one. In Sex Drive Daily.
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