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Green spaces deliver lasting mental health benefits

By Guest PostJanuary 8, 2014Environment, Healthgreat britain, green space, health benefits, households, ian alcock, mathew white, mental health, novelty effect, towns, urban areas

Green space in towns and cities could lead to significant and sustained improvements in mental health, finds a new study published in the journal of Environmental Science & Technology.

Analysing data that followed people over a five year period, the research has found that moving to a greener area not only improves people’s mental health, but that the effect continues long after they have moved.

The findings add to evidence that suggests increasing green spaces in cities – such as parks and gardens – could deliver substantial benefits to public health. (more…)

New Technique Targets Specific Areas of Cancer Cells with Different Drugs

By Guest PostJanuary 8, 2014Healthadriano bellotti, cancer cell, chapel hill, conventional treatment techniques, dox, doxorubicin, drugs, enzymes, jianping zhou, large scale manufacturing, nanoparticle, new technique, north Carolina, nucleus, programmed strategy, ran mo, specific area, state university, target, tianyue jiang, zhen gu

Researchers have developed a technique for creating nanoparticles that carry two different cancer-killing drugs into the body and deliver those drugs to separate parts of the cancer cell where they will be most effective. The technique was developed by researchers at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

“In testing on laboratory mice, our technique resulted in significant improvement in breast cancer tumor reduction as compared to conventional treatment techniques,” says Dr. Zhen Gu, senior author of a paper on the research and an assistant professor in the joint biomedical engineering program at NC State and UNC-Chapel Hill. (more…)

Yahoo Unveils New Products and Experiences for Smartphones, Web, Tablet and TV at CES 2014

By Guest PostJanuary 8, 2014Technologyaviate technology, digital advertising, new products, yahoo food, yahoo inc, yahoo tech

LAS VEGAS — Today at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Yahoo! Inc. unveiled new products and media sites across smartphones, tablets and the web, as well as a new suite of advertising technology to help advertisers, publishers and partners get more return from their online advertising campaigns. (more…)

Volle Kraft voraus- oder doch nicht?

By Guest PostJanuary 7, 2014Environmentakademik schokalski, antarktis, brine, deutscher wetterdienst, die temperatur, eisbrecher, eiskristalle, eisschlamm, forschungsschiff, frazil eis, heiligabend, magdalena bertelmann, pancake ice, pfannkucheneis, salzwasser, slush ice, snow dragon, sole tropfen

Schon seit Heiligabend steckt das russische Forschungsschiff
“Akademik Schokalski” im antarktischen Packeis fest. Wie entsteht
diese Form des Meereises und was sind seine Besonderheiten? Darüber
soll es im heutigen Thema des Tages gehen.
Packeis ist eine Form von Meereis, die nicht mit der Küste verbunden
ist, sondern von Wind und Wellen bewegt wird. Dabei muss eine
zusammenhängende Eisdecke von etwa 80% vorhanden sein, damit man vom
Packeis spricht.

Im September 2013 betrug die Fläche der Meereisbedeckung in der
Arktis etwa 5 Mio. qkm, in der Antarktis 20 Mio. qkm. (more…)

So schafft die Werbung den «idealen» Frauenkörper

By Guest PostJanuary 7, 2014Media, Technologyfrauenkoerper, ideal, infosperber, models, photoshop, video, werbung

«Ich will meiner Tochter zeigen, warum die allgegenwärtigen Models mit der Realität nichts zu tun haben», sagt eine Mutter. In knapp 40 Sekunden zeigt dieses Video, wie ein normaler Frauenkörper mit Photoshop in ein unrealistisches, nicht existierendes Schönheits-Vorbild verwandelt wird. *Source: Infosperber

When danger is in the eye of the beholder

By Guest PostJanuary 7, 2014Sciencebig wave surfing, dangerous sports, magnitude of threat, mental mechanism, risk seekers, risk seeking behavior

UCLA anthropologists study how, why we read into potential peril

They went boating alone without life vests and gave no thought to shimmying up very tall coconut trees.
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„Das Geheimnis der Bäume“

By Guest PostJanuary 7, 2014Naturebaeume, baum, das geheimnis, das oekosystem, der regisseur, die reise, francis halle, frankreich, gabun, luc jacquet, nabu international, oscar preistraeger, peru, pflanzenwelt, pinguine, regenwald, schmetterlings heliconius

NABU International verlost Fan-Pakete

Es braucht nur wenige Minuten, um einen Baum zu fällen – aber Hunderte von Jahren, bis ein Regenwald gewachsen ist. Der Film „Das Geheimnis der Bäume“ erzählt die Geschichte vom Wachsen und Gedeihen eines Urwaldes. Der Botaniker Francis Hallé hat viele Jahre damit verbracht, die Geheimnisse der Regenwälder zu erforschen – von einer auf der Höhe der Baumkronen schwebenden Plattform aus. Hallé, dem in der deutschen Synchronisation der Schauspieler Bruno Ganz seine Stimme leiht, stieß dabei auf faszinierende Zusammenhänge zwischen der Tier- und der Pflanzenwelt. (more…)

NASA’s Kepler Provides Insights on Enigmatic Planets

By Guest PostJanuary 7, 2014Sciencedoppler data, earth, exoplanet systems, Galaxy, gaseous, geoff marcy, gravitational tug, ji wei xie, kepler, kepler spacecraft, NASA, neptune, orbiting planet, rocky, solar system, transit timing variations, ttv, university of california, university of toronto

More than three-quarters of the planet candidates discovered by NASA’s Kepler spacecraft have sizes ranging from that of Earth to that of Neptune, which is nearly four times as big as Earth. Such planets dominate the galactic census but are not represented in our own solar system. Astronomers don’t know how they form or if they are made of rock, water or gas.

The Kepler team today reports on four years of ground-based follow-up observations targeting Kepler’s exoplanet systems at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Washington. These observations confirm the numerous Kepler discoveries are indeed planets and yield mass measurements of these enigmatic worlds that vary between Earth and Neptune in size. (more…)

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