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Newswise: Latest Science News, updated hourly. Newswise specializes in delivering the knowledge-based news behind tomorrow's headlines from the world's leading research institutions directly to journalists and to the public.
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Sandia National Laboratories Helping to Safeguard World's Dangerous Biological Agents
Safeguarding the world's most dangerous biological agents has been a top priority for a dedicated group of Sandia scientists for more than a decade, and now, this team is training laboratory leaders from around the world to secure deadly agents such as anthrax and HIV from accidental or intentional misuse.
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Spitzer Telescope Spots Colorful Mix of Asteroids, May Aid Future Space Travel
New research from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is providing close-up views of near-Earth objects and aiding astronomers in determining the size, composition and origin of more than 100 known near-Earth asteroids so far. Observation of 600 additional near-Earth objects is planned over the next year.
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Seafood Stewardship Questionable: UBC-Scripps Experts
The world's most established fisheries certifier is failing on its promises as rapidly as it gains prominence, according to the world's leading fisheries experts from the University of British Columbia (UBC), Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California at San Diego and elsewhere.
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Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Retain in Inactivate X Chromosome
Female induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, reprogrammed from human skin cells into cells that have the embryonic-like potential to become any cell in the body, retain an inactive X chromosome, stem cell researchers at UCLA have found.
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Chemists Discover Method to Create High-Value Chemicals from Biomass
Walter Trahanovsky, an Iowa State professor of chemistry, was trying to produce sugar derivatives from biomass using high-temperature chemistry. He was surprised when his research also produced significant yields of high-value chemicals.
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Laser-Based Missile Defense for Helicopters Being Developed
Protecting helicopters in combat from heat-seeking missiles is the goal of new laser technology created at the University of Michigan and Omni Sciences, Inc., which is a U-M spin-off company.
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Massive Networks of WoW Gamers, Etsy Crafters to be Focus of NSF-funded Study of Creative Collaborations
Using two of the planet's largest, creative online communities as their laboratory, two Indiana University Bloomington researchers hope to understand how the inner workings of such massive, networked collaborations could benefit scientists.
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ASME-ITI Issues Risk Analysis Standard for Natural and Man-Made Hazards to Higher Education Institutions
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers and ASME-Innovative Technologies Institute, LLC (ASME-ITI) have announced the new ASME-ITI Higher Education Risk Standard. "A Risk Analysis Standard for Natural and Man-Made Hazards to Higher Education Institutions" is designed to identify, analyze and address risks on college and university campuses.
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Low Grades in Adolescence Linked to Dopamine Genes
The academic performance of adolescents will suffer in at least one of four key subjects -- English, math, science, history -- if their DNA contains one or more of three specific dopamine gene variations, according to a study led by renowned biosocial criminologist Kevin M. Beaver of The Florida State University.
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Research Project Offers Insight Into Superstitious Behavior
People who believe that fate and chance control their lives are more likely to be superstitious -- but when faced with death they are likely to abandon superstition altogether, according to a recent Kansas State University undergraduate research project.
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