Archive: 08/09/2005
Evolution still being debated in Kansas
The Kansas Board of Education is expected to soon adopt revised science standards encouraging students to challenge aspects of the theory of evolution.
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Two new DNA sequencing methods unveiled
Two newly developed methods of decoding DNA are expected to be substantially quicker and cheaper than the existing method.
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UGA scientist takes dark out of chicken meat
University of Georgia poultry and food scientist Daniel Fletcher can make "a silk purse" if he wants to. In his research, he's turning dark meat, the underused "sow's ear" of chicken, into something more valuable: ...
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Industry's Smallest and Lightest Pen-Enabled Convertible Notebook Has Arrived: Fujitsu LifeBook P1500
Fujitsu Computer Systems announced that its popular LifeBook® S2000 thin and light notebook now features AMD Turion™ 64 mobile technology offering excellent overall performance for 32-bit and 64-bit applications, as well ...
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Forest Service Scientist Uses X-Rays To Understand Wood-Decay Mechanism
The innovative use of sophisticated physics technology by a USDA Forest Service biologist has led to fundamental advances in understanding the molecular and chemical processes involved in fungal wood decay, thereby opening ...
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Volcanoes inner workings disclosed when the Earth moved
While volcanologists can see the dome of the Soufriere Hills Volcano on the island of Montserrat grow and collapse, it takes instrumentation to delve beneath the surface. Now, Penn State geologists, using tiltmeter measurements, ...
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Freeze-dried mats of microbes awaken in Antarctic streambed
An experiment in a dry Antarctic stream channel has shown that a carpet of freeze-dried microbes that lay dormant for two decades sprang to life one day after water was diverted into it, said a University of ...
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New window into ancient ozone holes
British researchers have hit on a clever way to search for ancient ozone holes and their relationship to mass extinctions: measure the remains of ultraviolet-B absorbing pigments ancient plants left in their fossilized spores ...
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India's smoking gun: Dino-killing eruptions
New discoveries about the timing and speed of gigantic, 6500-foot (2-km) thick lava flows that poured out of the ground 65 million years ago could shift the blame for killing the dinos.
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On the horizon: a 'rinse' for washing machines that dries clothes
Think of it as a kind of chemical clothes wringer. University of Florida engineers have developed a compound that forces clothes in the washer to shed 20 percent more water during the spin cycle than in nor ...
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Accessorizing cells phones a growing trend
No longer does accessorizing a cell phone mean leather cases or cartoon covers. Now, individual artists and companies alike are profiting from an environment in which individuals make personal statements by adding flashy ...
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Nano World: A semiconductor nanotools boom
Semiconductor industry tools and instruments that work on the nanoscale could form a $5.5 billion market by 2012, experts told UPI's Nano World.
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Discovery lands safely in California
The space shuttle Discovery and its crew of seven landed safely Tuesday, one day behind schedule at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
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Discovery to land at California's Edwards' Air Force Base (Update)
Space Shuttle Discovery has been cleared to land Tuesday at California's Edwards Air Force Base after weather thwarted its planned landing in Florida, NASA officials said. Earlier, controllers passed over the ...
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Mars, The Blue Ecosynthesis
Terraforming was once solely the province of science fiction. In the 1930s, Olaf Stapledon wrote of electrolyzing a global sea on Venus in order to prepare it for human habitation in "Last and First Men." Jack Williamson ...
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