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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 15:40:11 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Mimicking Fish and Tailoring Radar to Warn of Bridge Peril
Mimicking Fish and Tailoring Radar to Warn of Bridge Peril
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:49:00 -0500
Civil Engineering Professor Bill Yu has built a pair of
sensors to provide real-time risk assessments of bridges during flooding--the largest cause by far of bridge failure.
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Case Western Reserve University
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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 06:24:38 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Stressed Out: Teens and Adults Respond Differently
Stressed Out: Teens and Adults Respond Differently
UCLA neuroscientist Adriana Galván studies the impact of normal, everyday stress and associated stress hormones on adolescents' brain function and decision making
More at http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=117610&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1
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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 13:45:04 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: These Cells Will Self-Destruct in Five... Four...
These Cells Will Self-Destruct in Five... Four...
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:02:00 -0500
Cancer is a difficult disease to treat because it's a personal disease. Each case is unique and based on a combination of environmental and genetic factors. Conventional chemotherapy employs treatment with one or more drugs, assuming that these medicines are able to both "diagnose" and "treat" the affected cells. Many of the side effects experienced by chemotherapy patients are due to the fact that the drugs they are taking aren't selective enough. For instance, taking a ...
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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 13:45:57 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Subseafloor Observatories Installed to Run Dynamic Experiments
Subseafloor Observatories Installed to Run Dynamic Experiments
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:06:00 -0500
Marine geologists have returned from two months at sea off British Columbia, Canada, where they installed two observatories in the ocean floor to run innovative experiments at the bottom of the sea.
The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) "Juan de Fuca Ridge-Flank Hydrogeology" expedition--Expedition 327--left Victoria, Canada, on July 9th and returned on September 5th.
Using the scientific ...
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