MIT study: Maturity brings richer memories
...he two groups have much in common, maturity brings richer memories. In the August 5 advance online edition... and reasoning -- may be responsible for creating richer memories in adults. Activation in the PFC follows an upward slope with age in contextual memories....Unique tomatoes tops in disease-fighting antioxidants
...s and sweet potatoes are a more readily available, richer source of beta carotene," Schwartz said. "And this carotenoid is a major source of vitamin A for a large proportion of the world's population. Its deficiency is a serious health problem in many developing countries. "Our study showed that a tomato ...Swimming 'to the left' gets bacteria upstream, and may promote infection
...acteria to eventually locate large reservoirs with richer sources of food and better conditions for multiplying. "We think that upstream swimming of bacteria may be relevant to the transport of E. coli in the urinary tract," said Kser. "It might also explain the high rates of infection in catheterized pa...End of deforestation in view? Experts advance new way to size up global forest resources
...eds US $4,600 (roughly equal to the GDP of Chile), richer is greener. In about half of the most forested countries biomass and carbon also expanded. Earlier work showed that by the 1980s wooded areas in all major temperate and boreal forests were exanding. Forest area and biomass are still being lost in......ofile in public debate and in the media has led to richer approaches and more hybrid methods of social science research and analysis, as well as more interaction between government, academia and business. 'Risk reduction is now a policy objective in a number of areas, but risk is also recognised as an impor...A Wellcome brain gain for world leading neuroscience lab
...been augmented to handle EEG and MEG which provide richer information about the brain's dynamics....New biologic treatment for tennis elbow may replace surgery for chronic sufferers
...f-teaspoon (2 to 3 mL) of this material over 500% richer in platelets than whole blood was then injected into the tendon of the sore elbow. These 15 patients had tennis elbow for 15 months and the average patient age was 48 years. Their baseline score on the pain scale was 80.3. Five patients served as...Giant insects might reign if only there was more oxygen in the air
... the late Paleozoic period because they had a much richer oxygen supply, said the study's lead author Alexander Kaiser. The study, "No giants today: tracheal oxygen supply to the legs limits beetle size,'' will be presented Oct. 10 and 11 at Comparative Physiology 2006: Integrating Diversity. The conferen...Fossils pinpoint tropics as Earth's most fruitful biodiversity spawning ground
... a study that explains why the tropics are so much richer in biodiversity than higher latitudes. And they sa...the journal Science. Why the tropics are so much richer in species and evolutionary lineages than elsewhere on Earth has loomed as one of the largest questi...Wild bees and the flowers they pollinate are disappearing together
...even more plentiful. Even in insects, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer." There have been parallel shifts in the plant world, with the plants that depend on pollination by bees disappearing too. Dr Bill Kunin, coordinator of the project at the University of Leeds explained: "We looked at pl...'Uniquely human' component of language found in gregarious birds
...-human animals are capable of," Gentner said, "the richer our world becomes. Fifty years ago, it was taboo to even talk about animal cognition. Now, no one doubts that animals have complex and vibrant mental lives." "When I describe our results to linguists and psycholinguists, they are amazed," Nusbaum sa...The birds and the b's: Challenging Chomsky, starlings learn 'human-only' syntax patterns
...derstand what nonhuman animals are capable of, the richer our world becomes. Fifty years ago, it was taboo to even talk about animal cognition. Now, there are Nova specials on the subject and no one doubts that animals have complex and vibrant mental lives. This study is a powerful statement about what even...How flowers changed the world a new book by Field Museum scientist
...olution of flowers and how flowers created a world richer than any that had come before in the 4 billion year history of the Earth. There's a lot of discussion about sex since flowers are the reproductive organs of flowering plants. "It is truly botany made interesting and accessible," says David Lentz, v...New study: Inequality in recreational resources decreases physical activities, boosts weight gain
...ch resources to about the same degree as people in richer communities. "We expected to find that private, fee facilities would be more common in more affluent areas, but the extent and magnitude of the lack of access in poorer communities was very surprising," Gordon-Larsen said. "Even the types of faciliti...Birth defects: 8 million annually worldwide
...imed both at addressing health disparities between richer and poorer nations and at reducing the toll of infant deaths, especially in low- and middle-income countries. "Experience from high-income countries shows that overall mortality and disability from birth defects could be reduced by up to 70 percent ...North Sea efficient sink for carbon dioxide
... in the North Sea. These form the basis for a much richer food chain than that found in the Atlantic Ocean. ...this water that flows out of the North Sea is much richer in organisms (and carbon-containing waste products from these) than the inflowing, blue oceanic wate...Delaware scientists make significant advance in study of small RNAs
... complete data set, we quickly saw that it was far richer and more complex than anyone had previously generated for this type of molecule." As the project progressed, the laboratories sequenced about 2.2 million small RNAs from the seedlings and flowers of the plant and identified more than 75,000 different...'Cookbook recipes' would cure disease with nontoxic DNA delivery systems
...eates a whole hierarchy of interactions and a much richer range of structures," Wong said, "which really opens up new possibilities."......rs support a wider variety of sponges, making them richer prospecting grounds. Back in the lab, the scientists put extracts from the animals they have collected through a battery of tests. If they find something with interesting properties, the researchers attempt to isolate and identify the molecule. The n...Urban ecology study witnessing the birth of a 'designer ecosystem'
...s is higher overall. If you just measure it, it is richer in town than in the desert." The scientists note that the urban environment differs from the surrounding desert in that it has an ample, year-round supply of basic life resources such as water, that in the native environment is seasonal or highly loc...