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362 articles from TUESDAY 17.1.2012

• TUESDAY 17. JANUARY, 2012
• 01:14 VIDEO: 'Spider-goat' makes silk in milk

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  Genetically modified goats at a farm in the US are being farmed to produce large quantities of spider silk, one of the strongest known substances.  

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• 00:29 World's Smallest Ear Can Hear Germs

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  The world's smallest ear can pick up noises a million times softer than any human can hear.  

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• 00:24 No walk in the park: Factors that predict walking difficulty in elderly

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  Yale School of Medicine researchers have found that the likelihood of becoming disabled with age increases with the following factors: having a chronic condition or cognitive impairment; low physical activity; slower gross motor coordination; having poor lower-extremity function; and being hospitalized. Women are also more likely than men to become disabled in their later years.  

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• 00:24 Parkin larvae bring researchers closer to solving Parkinson's disease puzzle

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  (Medical Xpress) -- Scientists at the University of York have made a significant step forward in isolating the cause of Parkinson’s disease in younger adults.  

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• 00:24 People behave socially and 'well' even without rules: study

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  Fundamentally people behave in a social and rather compassionate and "good" way rather than aggressively, even without specified rules. That is the result of a study from the Institute for Science of Complex Systems at the MedUni Vienna under the leadership of Stefan Thurner and Michael Szell. They analysed the behaviour of more than 400,000 participants of the “Virtual Life” game “Pardus” on the Internet. The findings are that only two percent of all actions are aggressive, even though the game would make it easy for war-like attacks with spaceships, for example.  

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• 00:24 Qualcomm's HaloIPT tech brings wireless charging for EVs

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  (PhysOrg.com) -- Qualcomm has demonstrated its new wireless power transmission system for electric vehicles (EVs) at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). The system, including one pad for power transmitting, another for power-receiving, and control unit, uses the inductive transfer method to charge an EV. The chip-maker’s technology, Inductive Power Transfer (IPT), has a technology history that rests with the company that it acquired in November, HaloIPT. The latter, which made a name for itself in developing wireless charging technology for EVs, was a spinoff from the University of Auckland in New Zealand.  

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• 00:24 Research provides new insights into antibiotics and pig feeds

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  Antibiotics in pig feed increased the number of antibiotic resistant genes in gastrointestinal microbes in pigs, according to a study conducted by Michigan State University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service.  

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• 00:24 Researchers identify path to treat Parkinson's disease at its inception

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  (Medical Xpress) -- Imagine if doctors could spot Parkinson’s disease at its inception and treat the protein that triggers it before the disease can sicken the patient. A team of researchers led by Basir Ahmad, a postdoctoral researcher at Michigan State University, has demonstrated that slow-wriggling alpha-synuclein proteins are the cause of aggregation, or clumping together, which is the first step of Parkinson’s. The results are published in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.  

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• 00:24 Scientists replicate key evolutionary step in life on earth

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  (PhysOrg.com) -- More than 500 million years ago, single-celled organisms on Earth's surface began forming multi-cellular clusters that ultimately became plants and animals.  

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• 00:24 Traditional physical autopsies -- not high-tech 'virtopsies' -- still 'gold standard'

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  TV crime shows like Bones and CSI are quick to explain each death by showing highly detailed scans and video images of victims' insides. Traditional autopsies, if shown at all, are at best in supporting roles to the high-tech equipment, and usually gloss over the sometimes physically grueling tasks of sawing through skin and bone.  

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• 00:24 Wikipedia to black out Wednesday in protest

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  Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales says the online encyclopedia will black out its website Wednesday to protest anti-piracy legislation under consideration in Congress.  

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• 00:15 Where On Earth Did Russia's Dead Mars Probe Crash? (SPACE.com)

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  SPACE.com - Despite reports that a failed Russian Mars probe fell to Earth Sunday (Jan. 15) and plunged into the Pacific Ocean, some confusion remains over where exactly the spacecraft crashed, according to Russian news reports.  

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