All news dated 12/20/2006

Medicine & Health

Snake-like robot and steady-hand system could assist surgeons

December 20, 2006 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 2 vote(s) | pda version

New Years Good Time for Taking Personal Inventory

December 20, 2006 | User rating: 1 / 5 after 1 vote(s) | pda version

Impulsiveness linked to activity in brain's reward center

December 20, 2006 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 4 vote(s) | pda version

Paying attention sets off symphony of cell synchronization

December 20, 2006 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 6 vote(s) | pda version

Researchers use stem cells to regenerate parts of teeth

December 20, 2006 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 4 vote(s) | pda version

Education -- the best pill of all for preventing Alzheimer's?

December 20, 2006 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 1 vote(s) | pda version

Stem cells used to create critical brain barrier in lab

December 20, 2006 | User rating: 2 / 5 after 2 vote(s) | pda version

Androgen therapy may slow progress of Alzheimer's disease

December 20, 2006 | User rating: 3 / 5 after 1 vote(s) | pda version

How blood flow dictates gene expression

December 20, 2006 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 5 vote(s) | pda version

General Science

Running on Microbes

December 20, 2006 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 23 vote(s) | pda version

Historians show how Angels survived Puritan purge by hanging round death beds

December 20, 2006 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 9 vote(s) | pda version

Researcher turns turkey away from the dark side

December 20, 2006 | User rating: 2.3 / 5 after 3 vote(s) | pda version

Ho! Ho! Huh? Researchers measure holiday spirit

December 20, 2006 | User rating: 1 / 5 after 1 vote(s) | pda version

S. Korean scientists to try monkey cloning

December 20, 2006 | User rating: 1.7 / 5 after 3 vote(s) | pda version

Trash talk: molecular conversations trigger cell suicide in yeast

December 20, 2006 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 4 vote(s) | pda version

New game teaches energy conservation

December 20, 2006 | User rating: 2.5 / 5 after 4 vote(s) | pda version

Technology

Researchers achieve transmission rates of 107 Gbits per second over a single fiber channel

December 20, 2006 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 10 vote(s) | pda version

ANL releases award-winning vehicle simulation modeling software

December 20, 2006 | User rating: 3 / 5 after 1 vote(s) | pda version

Space & Earth science

Extreme autumn temperatures cause unseasonable flowering in the Netherlands

December 20, 2006 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 10 vote(s) | pda version

Crew Inspecting Heat Shield, Preparing for Landing

December 20, 2006 | User rating: 1 / 5 after 1 vote(s) | pda version

Students Design System to Return Astronauts to Earth

December 20, 2006 | User rating: 3.3 / 5 after 3 vote(s) | pda version

Physics

‘Atom-chips’ research wins multi-million pound funding

December 20, 2006 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 8 vote(s) | pda version