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| Researchers discover atomic bomb effect results in adult-onset thyroid cancer Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT |
| Radiation from the atomic bomb blasts in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945, likely rearranged chromosomes in some survivors who later developed papillary thyroid cancer as adults, according to Japanese researchers. |
| National guidelines released for earwax removal Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT |
| The American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery Foundation will issue the first comprehensive clinical guidelines to help health-care practitioners identify patients with cerumen (commonly referred to as earwax) impaction. The guidelines emphasize evidence-based management of cerumen impaction by clinicians, and inform patients of the purpose of ear wax in hearing health. |
| Feats of strength begin a lizard's day Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT |
| Male Jamaican anole lizards begin and end the day with displays of reptilian strength -- push-ups, head bobs and extensions of a colorful neck flap, or dewlap -- to defend their territory, according to a new study. |
| Memory trick shows brain organization Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT |
| A simple memory trick has helped show UC Davis researchers how an area of the brain called the perirhinal cortex can contribute to forming memories. |
| Robots learn to follow Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT |
| Researchers at UC Davis have come up with a control system that allows a robot to pick up on cues that the leader is about to turn, predict where it is going and follow it. |
| Barrow researchers identify a new approach to detect the early progression of brain tumors Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT |
| Researchers at Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center recently participated in a pilot study with the Montreal Neurological Institute that suggests a certain type of MRI scanning can detect when a patient is failing brain tumor treatment before symptoms appear. The results of the study pave the way for a proactive treatment approach. |
| Antarctic research helps shed light on climate change on Mars Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT |
| Eroded gullies on the flanks of Martian craters may have been formed by snowmelt as recently as a few hundred thousand years ago and in sites once occupied by glaciers. Similar conditions can be found in Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys. Rather than being a dead planet, the new data are consistent with dynamic climate changes on Mars. |
| Great Ape Trust graduate student's paper sheds light on bonobo language Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT |
| What happens when linguistic tools used to analyze human language are applied to a conversation between a language-competent bonobo and a human? The findings, published this month in the Journal of Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, indicate that bonobos may exhibit larger linguistic competency in ordinary conversation than in controlled experimental settings. |
| 'Armored' fish study helps strengthen Darwin's natural selection theory Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT |
| Shedding some genetically induced excess baggage may have helped a tiny fish thrive in freshwater and outsize its marine ancestors, according to a UBC study published today in Science Express. |
| Biophysical method may help to recover hearing Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT |
| Scientists based in Switzerland and South Africa have created a biophysical methodology that may help to overcome hearing deficits, and potentially remedy even substantial hearing loss. The authors propose a method of retuning functioning regions of the ear to recognize frequencies originally associated with damaged areas. Details are published Aug. 29 in the open-access journal PLoS Computational Biology. |
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