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How Cancer Spreads By Aggregating Platelets
Scientists have provided new details about how cancer cells spread by surrounding themselves with platelets -- the blood cells needed for blood clotting. These results could help design new drugs that prevent cancer cells from metastasizing, or spreading throughout the body. Dopamine enhances expectation of pleasure in humans
Enhancing the effects of the brain chemical dopamine influences how people make life choices by affecting expectations of pleasure, according to new research. [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." Carnegie Mellon, Pitt Researchers Report Chemistry Textbooks Lack Conn
Stories of exciting chemistry discoveries in Scientific American and The New York Times paint a better picture of chemistry as it is practiced than do some widely used high school textbooks, according to a study by Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh. The findings signal that introductory textbooks could be shortchanging students, denying them exposure to the creativity of chemistry and omitting context they need to be scientifically literate citizens. Invasion Of New Beach Grass Could Weaken Shoreline Protection
An invasion of American beach grass is under way along the Oregon coast, threatening to change dune ecology and reduce the ability of dunes to protect roads, property and towns from coastal storms. Scientists have documented a slow but steady takeover by this beach grass, an invasive species. They found that protective "foredunes"covered by the new grass species are only about half as high as those created by the European species of grass that were formerly dominant. DJ Spooky: How a Tiny Caribbean Island Birthed the Mashup
DJ Spooky assembles his compilation celebrating Trojan Records' 40th birthday, and he finds countless parallels between the Jamaican reggae scene in the 1960s and '70s and the digital mashup ecosystem of today. Spooky elaborates in this Wired News interview. Get Your Caller ID to Go
It's a handy feature for your phone, but caller ID is popping up in all sorts of other places too, from rearview mirrors to wristwatches. Is it convenience or information over-delivery? By Joanna Glasner. Scientists Determine Structure Of Enzyme That Disrupts Bacterial Virul
A team of biomedical researchers from Brandeis University and the University of Texas at Austin has determined the first 3-dimensional structure of an enzyme that may be pivotal in preventing certain bacterial infections in plants, animals and humans, according to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Abstinent Alcoholics Can Have Reduced Brain Activation Without Apparen
Heavy alcohol use can lead to structural and functional changes in the brain. New findings show that even when structural damage may not be apparent, brain activation can still be reduced. Researchers refer to this alcohol-induced damage as "latent lesions."A new examination of memory retrieval among recovering alcoholics has found lower activation than among nonalcoholics in key areas of the brain even in the absence of demonstrable brain structural damage. Fate Of Nano Waste: Researchers Study How To Make Nanomaterial Industr
Research into making the emerging nanomaterial industry environmentally sustainable is showing promise in a preliminary engineering study conducted at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Rice University.
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