Matt Willemsen

From the page: "It may seem fair that teenagers are the first to lose employment opportunities in a recession. After all, they don't usually have families of their own to feed. But unemployment during the teen years follows a person throughout life, Sum said. Work experience now brings higher wages later. The more job experience a person has, the more likely employers are to invest in job training. Plus, teens who work are less likely to drop out of school, get involved in crime, or get pregnant. Once you get off to a bad start, Sum said, "you cannot make up for what you lost. It's gone forever." " - Matt Willemsen

From the page: Memory-boosting drug may help cocaine addicts avoid relapse Cocaine-associated 'cues' less likely to lead to relapse with behavioral therapy and memory drug, animal study suggests - Matt Willemsen

Scientists have shown that inexpensive nickel can work just as well as gold for the critical electrical contacts that gather the electrical current produced by quantum dot solar cells. The change to nickel can reduce the cell's already low material costs by 40 to 80 percent. - Matt Willemsen

A team at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California, embedded selenium in zinc oxide, a relatively inexpensive material that could be promising for solar power conversion if it could make more efficient use of the sun's energy. The team found that even a relatively small amount of selenium, just 9 percent of the mostly zinc-oxide base, dramatically boosted the material's efficiency in absorbing light. College Park, MD (August 3, 2010) -- Call it the anti-sunscreen. That's more or less the description of what many solar energy researchers would like to find -- light-catching substances that could be added to photovoltaic materials in order to convert more of the sun's energy into carbon-free electricity. - Matt Willemsen

From the page: "having a sister protected adolescents from feeling lonely, unloved, guilty, self-conscious and fearful. It didn't matter whether the sister was younger or older, or how far apart the siblings were agewise. Brothers mattered, too. having a loving sibling of either gender promoted good deeds, such as helping a neighbor or watching out for other kids at school. In fact, loving siblings fostered charitable attitudes more than loving parents did. " - Matt Willemsen

From the page: In 2009, the Mini-SAR radar instrument on the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft was able to map more than 95% of both poles at 150 meter radar resolution, and now the Mini-RF instrument on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter ââ,¬” which has 10 times the resolution of the Mini-SAR ââ,¬” is about halfway through its first high-resolution mapping campaign of the poles. The two instruments are revealing there are likely massive amounts of water in the permanently shadowed craters at the poles, with over 600 million metric tons at the north pole alone. "If that was turned into rocket fuel, it would be enough to launch the equivalent of one Space Shuttle per day for over 2,000 years," - Matt Willemsen

From the page: "Like an ice cube on a warm day, most materials melt "that is, change from a solid to a liquid state" as they get warmer. But a few oddball materials do the reverse: They melt as they get cooler. Now a team of researchers at MIT has found that silicon, the most widely used material for computer chips and solar cells, can exhibit this strange property of "retrograde melting" when it contains high concentrations of certain metals dissolved in it. The material, a compound of silicon, copper, nickel and iron, "melts" (actually turning from a solid to a slush-like mix of solid and liquid material) as it cools below 900 degrees Celsius, whereas silicon ordinarily melts at 1414 degrees C. " - Matt Willemsen

From the page: "Simply wearing the color red or being bordered by the rosy hue makes a man more attractive and sexually desirable to women, according to a series of studies by researchers at the University of Rochester and other institutions. And women are unaware of this arousing effect. " - Matt Willemsen

From the page: "A gorgeous photo of pressure sensitive nitrogen triiodide exploding at 1000 m/s is shown below." - Matt Willemsen

From the page: "Why is it that two people can consume the same high fat, high-calorie Western diet and one becomes obese and prone to diabetes while the other maintains a slim frame? This question has long baffled scientists, but a study by Yale School of Medicine researchers provides a simple explanation: weight is set before birth in the developing brain. " - Matt Willemsen

From the page: "Researchers have discovered a mechanism by which Helicobacter pylori, the only known cancer-causing bacterium, disables a tumor suppressor protein in host cells. H. pylori's ability to cause disease is closely associated with a virulence protein called CagA. Previous studies have found that CagA-positive strains are much more likely to cause inflammation and spur the abnormal cell division and growth of cells that lead to cancer." - Matt Willemsen

Adults over 65 reported spending three times more of their waking hours watching TV than did younger adults. Older adults did not seem to experience the same "stress buffering" effects that younger adults did from watching TV, and TV use among older adults - unlike time spent on other leisure activities, such as socializing or physical exercise - was related to lower life satisfaction. - Matt Willemsen

From the page: "An archaeological site in southeastern Europe has shown its metal. This ancient settlement contains the oldest securely dated evidence of copper making, from 7,000 years ago, and suggests that copper smelting may been invented in separate parts of Asia and Europe at that time rather than spreading from a single source." - Matt Willemsen

Frankly I'm a little shocked that this tiny article is all they could come up with about this fellow. Let's hope further reporting goes into more detail. - Matt Willemsen

a connection between syntax and intonation would help to explain how babies unravel word order from the continuous streams of sound that they hear, with changes in intonation acting as cues to grammar - Matt Willemsen

From the page: "A University of Alberta research team has discovered that a plant's strategy to capture nutrients in the soil is the result of integration of different types of information. U of A ecologist J.C. Cahill says the plant's strategy mirrors the daily risk-versus-reward dilemmas that animals experience in their quest for food. " - Matt Willemsen

The salmon farms, which are entirely legal have, in part, devastating impacts on the region's entire ecosystem - because Atlantic salmon is an alien species in Chile, introduces diseases and therefore poses an additional risk to already threatened native species. The use of medication on the farms and the waste they produce also burden the ecosystem. Researchers suggest that the salmon industry, local fishermen and environmental protection organisations join forces in seeking a solution to this problem - Matt Willemsen

The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster is about to be renamed to Sophophora melanogaster. - Matt Willemsen

From the page: "Fish and other wildlife seem to be fleeing the oil out in the Gulf and clustering in cleaner waters along the coast " - Matt Willemsen

From the page: "Toshiba said on Thursday it has come up with a chip that packs 128 gigabytes of memory, all jammed into a mini slab that measures just 17x22x1.4 millimetres." - Matt Willemsen

Delicious real Indian food in Togane! - Matt Willemsen

Who could possibly pass up a story about elves and sprites? It's magically delicious! - Matt Willemsen

From the page: "we're seeing a couple of large outcrops of rock poking through the soil of the Columbia Hills. The rocks are about 25 percent carbonate by weight, by far the highest abundance we've seen on Mars." - Matt Willemsen

From the page: "Standing on solid ground with your consumers has always been important, but this research suggests that it may be the difference between a sale and failure to close the deal." - Matt Willemsen

From the page: The human factors division has spent nearly $20 million to experiment with micro-expressions, or super-quick flickers of facial muscles, that may -- or may not -- indicate hostile intent. Researchers are studying 275 videos of test interviews -- frame by painstaking frame, 30 frames a second, each video up to 10 minutes long -- so analysts can catalog "micro-facial emotional leakages." - Matt Willemsen