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8,579 articles frome SEPTEMBER 2010

• THURSDAY 30. SEPTEMBER, 2010
• 23:59 Cash-strapped science departments face overseas brain drain

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• 23:55 A Question for BP's New Chief

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  Robert Dudley once oversaw renewable energy activities at BP. Would he consider a bigger commitment to alternative energy sources?
  
   

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• 23:23 Fighting cancers by tagging their triggers

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  Imagine the day a machine can draw your blood, screen it for genetic mutations and chemical variations that can cause cancer, and pop out a drug tailor-made for your DNA.  

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• 23:23 Futuristic computing designs inside beetle scales

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  (PhysOrg.com) -- Though it began as a science fair project involving a shiny Brazilian beetle, Lauren Richey`s research may advance the pursuit of ultra-fast computers that manipulate light rather than electricity.  

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• 23:23 HP picks former SAP exec Leo Apotheker as new CEO

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  (AP) -- Hewlett-Packard Co. named veteran computer software executive Leo Apotheker as its new CEO.  

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• 23:23 HPV screen-and treat-intervention effective in cervical cancer prevention

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  Women in South Africa who underwent human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA-based testing or visual inspection of the cervix followed by treatment of test-positive women with cryotherapy had a statistically significant reduction in high grade cervical cancer precursors, compared with women in a control group, according to a study published online Sept. 30 in The Journal of the National Cancer Institute.  

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• 23:23 NASA satellites see Nicole become a remnant, another low soaking US East Coast

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  Tropical Storm Nicole was a tropical storm for around 6 hours before it weakened into a remnant low pressure area and is now off the Florida coast. NASA Satellite imagery captured different views of Nicole's clouds as the system weakened back into a low pressure area.  

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• 23:23 Nearly one in 10 Americans depressed, jobs a factor: study

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  Nearly one in 10 Americans suffers from depression and about a third of them have a severe form of the mental disorder, which is often linked to joblessness, a study published Thursday found.  

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• 23:23 New report on street lighting technologies available from NLPIP

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  The National Lighting Product Information Program (NLPIP) released its latest Specifier Report, designed to provide objective performance information on existing street lighting technologies -- including light-emitting diode (LED), induction, and high pressure sodium (HPS) streetlights. This report comes at a critical time when many municipalities, some with funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, are in the process of replacing HPS streetlights with LED and induction models.  

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• 23:23 New Windows-powered smartphones coming in October: report

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  Microsoft plans to unveil smartphones using the latest version of its Windows operating system on October 11 which will be sold exclusively by AT&T, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.  

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• 23:23 Outpatient treatment just as safe for jaw fractures, study finds

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  (PhysOrg.com) -- New research by UC oral and maxillofacial surgeons suggests that treating isolated lower jaw fractures on an outpatient basis has the same outcome and significantly lowers health care costs.  

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• 23:23 Planning the world's largest water tunnel research facility

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  The University of Miami College of Engineering has received funding from the Corporacion Andina de Fomento to undertake a feasibility study for a new experimental facility located in Panama. The proposed Water Tunnel of the Americas at the Panama Canal (WTAPC) would be the largest water tunnel facility in the world.  

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• 23:23 Plants that move: How New Zealand species disperses seeds in high alpine, wet environment

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  High in an alpine meadow, Gesine Pufal, from the University of Wellington, New Zealand, crouched low to the ground and splashed some water from her water bottle on a low green plant cushion, then sat back waiting to see if something would move. Sound crazy? Many hikers passing by her may have thought so, but Pufal was trying to find potential plant species that possess a type of plant movement called hygrochasy.  

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• 23:23 Researchers find renewable energy leftovers could fertilize, cut carbon emissions

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  (PhysOrg.com) -- For hundreds of years, farmers in Brazil's Amazon Basin have hunted through dense jungles for what is called "terra preta" - mysterious plots of super-fertile black soil amid otherwise nutrient-stripped earth.  

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• 23:23 Scientists describe how salmonella bacteria spread in humans (w/ Video)

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  New findings by National Institutes of Health scientists could explain how Salmonella bacteria, a common cause of food poisoning, efficiently spread in people. In a study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers describe finding a reservoir of rapidly replicating Salmonella inside epithelial cells. These bacteria are primed to infect other cells and are pushed from the epithelial layer by a new mechanism that frees the Salmonella to infect other cells or be shed into the intestine.  

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• 23:23 Scientists to map offshore San Andreas Fault and associated ecosystems

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  For the first time, scientists are using advanced technology and an innovative vessel to study, image, and map the unexplored offshore Northern San Andreas Fault from north of San Francisco to its termination at the junction of three tectonic plates off Mendocino, Calif.  

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• 23:23 Underwater robot swims free thanks to newly-designed wireless controller (w/ Video)

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  A waterproof controller designed and built by York University researchers is allowing an underwater robot to go "wireless" in a unique way.  

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• 23:23 Women's study finds longevity means getting just enough sleep

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  A new study, derived from novel sleep research conducted by University of California, San Diego researchers 14 years earlier, suggests that the secret to a long life may come with just enough sleep. Less than five hours a night is probably not enough; eight hours is probably too much.  

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• 23:23 Court Schedule Suggests Stem Cell Lawsuit Won't Be Resolved Until Late in Year

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  Study of bone joints and cartilage gives some of the beasts a 30 centimeter lift  

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• 23:23 ScienceShot: Dinosaurs Just Got Taller

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  Study of bone joints and cartilage gives some of the beasts a 30 centimeter lift  

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• 23:03 Thick cartilage may stretch some dinosaurs' height (AP)

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  AP - Dinosaur skeletons often are pieced together with leg bones nearly touching, no room left for cushiony cartilage because scientists don't know how much they had. New research suggests some species might have had a foot's worth.  

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• 23:00 Dinosaurs Taller Thanks to Thick Cartilage

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  The thick layers of cartilage in their limbs would have given dinosaurs a big boost in height.  

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• 23:00 Impending death for paper coupons?

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  With digital coupons more readily available, researchers set out to understand how consumers are using them and what they think about the technology behind the promotions and services provided.  

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• 23:00 Mutations in the gene SCARF2 responsible for Van Den Ende-Gupta syndrome, study suggests

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  Scientists studied three patients from biologically interrelated Bedouin families, and sent samples to Canada for analysis by GA JOE -- a high-tech genome analyzing machine. They discovered that mutations in the gene SCARF2 are responsible for Van Den Ende-Gupta syndrome.  

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• 23:00 Research examines vicious cycle of overeating and obesity

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  New research provides evidence of the vicious cycle created when an obese individual overeats to compensate for reduced pleasure from food.  

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