Scientists Discover Gold Clusters Stabilize Platinum Electrocatalysts For Use in Fuel Cells
Jan 12, 2007 |
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Platinum is the most efficient electrocatalyst for accelerating chemical reactions in fuel cells for electric vehicles. In reactions during the stop-and-go driving of an electric car, however, the platinum ...
Scientists discover new life forms in the Arctic Ocean
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Jan 12, 2007 |
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An international group of researchers has succeeded in identifying a previously unknown group of algae. As currently reported in the scientific journal Science, the newly discovered algae are found among the sm ...
Huygens’s second landing anniversary – the surprises continue
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 12, 2007 |
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Two years ago, planetary scientists across the world watched as Europe and the US did something amazing. The Huygens descent module drifted down through the hazy atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan, beaming its ...
FDA OKs vitamin C trial for cancer
Jan 12, 2007 |
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Federal approval of a clinical trial on intravenous vitamin C as a cancer treatment lends credence to alternative cancer care, U.S. researchers said.
Earliest evidence of modern humans in Europe discovered
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jan 12, 2007 |
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Modern humans who first arose in Africa had moved into Europe as far back as about 45,000 years ago, according to a new study by an international research team led by the Russian Academy of Sciences and the ...
Scientists find potential 'off-switch' for HIV virus
Jan 12, 2007 |
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While there is no cure for lingering viral infections such as HIV and herpes, a recent study at Princeton University suggests it may be possible to deactivate such viruses indefinitely with the flick of a genetic switch.
Gene that makes people 'early to bed and early to rise' demystified
Jan 12, 2007 |
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The recent discovery that a mutant "clock" gene made some people "early to bed and early to rise," a condition known as familial advanced sleep phase syndrome (FASPS), offered one of the first glimpses into the genetic basis ...
Scientists crack the genome of the parasite causing trichomoniasis
Jan 12, 2007 |
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Scientists have finally deciphered the genome of the parasite causing trichomoniasis, a feat that is already providing new approaches to improve the diagnosis and treatment of this sexually transmitted disease. ...
Leading physicists convene in Tucson for conference on gravity
Jan 12, 2007 |
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More than three dozen leading physicists and astrophysicists will convene in Tucson for the conference, "Rethinking Gravity: from the Planck scale to the size of the Universe," Jan. 22 - 24, 2007.
Large size crucial for Amazon forest reserves
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 12, 2007 |
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An international research team has discovered that the size of Amazon forest reserves is yet more important than previously thought. Their findings, to be published this week in the journal Science, underscore the import ...
It takes a village -- Female ducks negotiate joint rearing of ducklings
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Jan 12, 2007 |
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Female eider ducks are well known to team up and share the work of rearing ducklings, but it now appears that they also negotiate not only how much effort each puts into the partnership, but also profit-sharing. ...
Some eBay Users Abuse Auction Site's Feedback System, Professor Finds
Jan 12, 2007 |
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Some eBay users are artificially boosting their reputations by buying and selling feedback on the Internet auction site, according to John Morgan, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business.
Soho prepares for comet McNaught
Jan 12, 2007 |
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Recently, sky watchers in the Northern Hemisphere have been enjoying the sight of Comet McNaught in the twilight sky. Now, solar physicists using the ESA-NASA SOHO spacecraft are getting ready for their view. ...
Beavers and their dams may help amphibians
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Jan 12, 2007 |
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The dam-building beaver may be an ally in conserving wetland habitat for declining amphibian populations, a University of Alberta study said.
NASA funds instrument to probe life on Mars
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 12, 2007 |
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A joint UC San Diego/UC Berkeley experiment to detect life on Mars that is scheduled to fly aboard the European ExoMars rover mission in 2013 will receive $750,000 in development funding from the National Aeronautics ...
