news 2012

Philosophy - 18.06
Review of Research Calls into Question Sex Differences in Face-to-Face Mate Preferences
AUSTIN, Texas — Women say they place a priority on a potential partner's earning prospects, and men claim to value a potential partner's physical attractiveness; these sex differences have been widely studied by psychologists for decades.

Medicine/Pharmacology - 17.06
New alternative to surgery lets doctors remove suspicious polyps, keep colon intact
Millions of people each year have polyps successfully removed during colonoscopies. But when a suspicious polyp is bigger than a marble or in a hard-to-reach location, patients are referred for surgery to remove a portion of their colon — even if doctors aren't sure whether the polyp is cancerous or not.

Sport Sciences - Medicine/Pharmacology - 17.06
Research leads to enhanced CFL concussion guidelines
Study tests how much CFL players and their university-level counterparts know about concussions-and how to deal with them. - Research from the University of Alberta shows Canadian Football League players are more likely than university-level players to value medical tests after concussions.

Mathematics - Mechanical Engineering/Mechanics - 17.06
Is there an invisible tug-of-war behind bad hearts and power outages?
Systems such as a beating heart or a power grid that depend on the synchronized movement of their parts could fall prey to an invisible and chaotic tug-of-war known as a "chimera." Sharing its name with the fire-breathing, zoologically patchy creature of Greek mythology, a chimera state arises among identical, rhythmically moving components — known as oscillators — when a few of those parts spontaneously fall out of sync while the rest remain synchronized.

Medicine/Pharmacology - Life Sciences - 14.06
Developmental Protein Plays Role in Spread of Cancer
A protein used by embryo cells during early development, and recently found in many different types of cancer, apparently serves as a switch regulating the spread of cancer, known as metastasis, report researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center in the June 15, 2013 issue of the journal Cancer Research .

Environmental Sciences - 13.06
Racial differences found in genetic and environmental influences on problem drinking
The environment in which African-American girls are raised tends to protect them against problem use of alcohol, shows a new Yale University study of more than 3,500 twins. By contrast, familial environmental factors tend to significantly increase problem use of alcohol in girls of European descent, according to the study published June 13 in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research.

Medicine/Pharmacology - Life Sciences - 13.06
Hormone therapy for endometrial cancer targets connective tissue, not tumor cells
The female hormone progesterone has been used for several decades as a therapy for endometrial cancer, which starts in the lining of the uterus. Yet scientists didn't understand the mechanisms behind the therapy or its site of action.

Medicine/Pharmacology - Life Sciences - 12.06
Antihistamines may increase pregnancy risks for women with severe morning sickness
Women with a severe form of morning sickness who take antihistamines to help them sleep through their debilitating nausea are significantly more likely to experience premature births or have low–birth-weight babies, a UCLA study has found.

Physics/Material Science - Microtechnics/Electroengineering - 12.06
Nano-thermometer enables first atomic-scale heat dissipation measurements
ANN ARBOR-In findings that could help overcome a major technological hurdle in the road toward smaller and more powerful electronics, an international research team involving University of Michigan engineering researchers, has shown the unique ways in which heat dissipates at the tiniest scales.

Medicine/Pharmacology - Life Sciences - 12.06
New Imaging Technique Captures Ever-Changing World of Metabolites
What would you do with a camera that can take a picture of something and tell you how new it is? If you're Berkeley Lab scientists Katherine Louie, Ben Bowen, Jian-Hua Mao and Trent Northen, you use it to gain a better understanding of the ever-changing world of metabolites, the molecules that drive life-sustaining chemical transformations within cells.

Earth Sciences - Social Sciences - 12.06
How Altitude Affects the Way Language is Spoken
June 12, 2013 — Coral Gables — Language is formed by giving meaning to sounds and stringing together these meaningful expressions to communicate feelings and ideas. Until recently most linguists believed that the relationship between the structure of language and the natural world was mainly the influence of the environment on vocabulary.

Medicine/Pharmacology - Life Sciences - 11.06
Bacteria that causes gum disease packs a one-two punch to the jaw
Jerry Mastey, (734) 615-1971, jmastey [a] umich (p) edu or Sharon Grayden, (734) 615-2600, dentistry [a] umich (p) edu or Laura Bailey, (734) 647-1848, baileylm [a] umich (p) edu - ANN ARBOR-The newly discovered bacterium that causes gum disease delivers a one-two punch by also triggering normally protective proteins in the mouth to actually destroy more bone, a University of Michigan study found.

Medicine/Pharmacology - 11.06
Pilot Program Using Telemedicine to Decrease Emergency Room Wait Times
Emergency department (ED) overcrowding has been a major issue nationally for 20 years and continues to increase in severity. To address this issue, a pilot study has been launched at UC San Diego Health System's ED to use telemedicine as a way to help address crowding and decrease patient wait times.

Life Sciences - Medicine/Pharmacology - 11.06
Beauty and the Brain: Electrical Stimulation of the Brain Makes You Perceive Faces as More Attractive
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and-as researchers have now shown-in the brain as well. - The researchers, led by scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), have used a well-known, noninvasive technique to electrically stimulate a specific region deep inside the brain previously thought to be inaccessible.

Physics/Material Science - Chemistry - 6.06
New phase of matter discovered In superconducting material
Tiny crystals, probed with a device called a resonant ultrasound spectrometer, are helping solve the long-time mystery of "pseudogap behavior" in copper oxide superconductors. - News flash: The pseudogap is indeed a phase of matter.