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Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 09:12:26 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Regional Grants Conference - October 2008
Regional Grants Conference - October 2008
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Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 09:49:43 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: A New Way to Think About Earth's First Cells
A New Way to Think About Earth's First Cells
A team of researchers at Harvard University have modeled in the laboratory a primitive cell, or protocell, that is capable of building, copying and containing DNA.
Since there are no physical records of what the first primitive cells on Earth looked like, or how they grew and divided, the research team's protocell project offers a useful way to learn about how Earth's earliest cells may have interacted with their environment approximately 3.5 billion years ago.
The protocell's ...
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Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 16:45:58 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Study of Glacial Earthquakes Shakes Up Idea of How Ice Streams Move
Study of Glacial Earthquakes Shakes Up Idea of How Ice Streams Move
New research that integrates seismic recordings with Global Positioning System (GPS) measurements indicates that a 7,000-square-mile region of the Whillians Ice Stream in West Antarctica moves more than two feet twice every day in an earthquake-like pattern equivalent to a Magnitude 7 temblor.
The findings were published in this week's edition of the journal Nature by a group of scientists that includes investigators from Washington University in St. Louis, Penn State ...
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Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 16:49:33 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Expeditions in Computing
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Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 16:51:47 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Plastic Brain Outsmarts Experts
Plastic Brain Outsmarts Experts
Can human beings rev up their intelligence quotients, or are they stuck with IQs set by their genes at birth? Until recently, nature seemed to be the clear winner over nurture.
But new research, led by Swiss postdoctoral fellows Susanne M. Jaeggi and Martin Buschkuehl, working at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, suggests that at least one aspect of a person's IQ can be improved by training a certain type of memory.
Most IQ tests attempt to measure two types of ...
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