Laser wave steers electrons in chemical bonds
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As is now reported in Science, a team of scientists from the Netherlands (FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics) and Germany (Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching and the Universities of Bie ...
Plants That Can Eat Arsenic
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Environmental arsenic pollution is a serious and growing environmental problem, especially on the Indian subcontinent. Researchers at the University of Georgia had, several years ago, used genetic techniques to create "arsenic-eating" ...
Girl with two hearts healthy with just one
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British surgeons are amazed how quickly a 12-year-old Welsh girl, who had her transplanted heart removed after 10 years, has recovered with her original heart.
Eel-like catfish can 'walk' on land
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A researcher at Belgium's Ghent University reportedly has discovered an eel-like catfish that can wriggle out of the water to stalk prey on land.
Unraveling the mysteries of poison
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Researchers from the Max Planck Institite for Biophysical Chemistry and other German and French colleagues have combined magnetic resonance spectroscopy (solid-state NMR) with special protein synthesis procedures to uncover ...
Analysis: Google performs virtual kowtow in China
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Google's chief executive officer performed the modern-day equivalent of the kowtow in the Chinese capital this week, saying his firm would obey the laws of the land calling itself a democratic dictatorship.
Relationship of brain and skull more than just packaging
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People usually think of the skull as packaging for the brain and researchers usually investigate them separately, but a team of researchers now thinks that developmentally and evolutionarily that the two are incontrovertibly ...
Samsung Develops 3D Memory Package that Greatly Improves Performance Using Less Space
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Samsung Electronics announced today that it has developed a small-footprint, wafer-level processed stack package (WSP) of high density memory chips using 'through silicon via' (TSV) interconnection technology. WSP actually ...
Massive German floods monitored from space
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Torrential rain and melting snow caused Germany’s Elbe River to rise to a record high level in northern parts of the country over the weekend, flooding cities and damaging historic town centres. ESA’s ERS-2 ...
Melting Arctic ice affecting walrus calves
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Scientists have reported an unprecedented number of unaccompanied and possibly abandoned walrus calves in the Arctic Ocean.
The great Easter egg hunt: The void's incredible richness
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An image made of about 300 million pixels is being released by ESO, based on more than 64 hours of observations with the Wide-Field Camera on the 2.2m telescope at La Silla (Chile). The image covers an 'empty' ...
Forget better mouse traps: save the forest
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Wildlife Conservation Society scientists in New York say the most cost-effective way to control rats on the Fiji Islands is to protect standing forests.
Cell surface profiling technique could yield cancer blood test
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A chemical profiling technique that has potential for detecting the onset of cancer at the cellular level has been developed by scientists with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of ...
Analysis: British law may hurt Indian outsourcers
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A law introduced in Britain last week to protect the rights of workers laid off by offshoring and outsourcing could not only potentially leave Indian business process outsourcing (BPO) service providers with huge liabilities ...
The chicken was eaten before the egg
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University of Nevada-Las Vegas scientists say they've confirmed Darwin's theory that many traits can be explained by the ancestral lineage of a species.
