Fossilized cashew nuts reveal Europe was important route between Africa and South America
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Cashew nut fossils have been identified in 47-million year old lake sediment in Germany, revealing that the cashew genus Anacardium was once distributed in Europe, remote from its modern “native” distribution in Central and ...
Earliest evidence for reptiles
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 17, 2007 |
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Newly discovered fossilised footprints provide the earliest evidence yet for the evolution of reptiles – a major event in the history of life. They are 315 million years old, making reptiles up to 3 million ...
Researchers discover the dawn of animal vision
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The findings are published in this week’s issue of the scientific journal PLoS ONE. The scientists studied the aquatic animal Hydra, a member of Cnidaria, which are animals that have existed for hundreds of ...
Innovations in Light-Emitting Wallpaper & Design
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Jonas Samson of the Netherlands has developed a light emitting wallpaper. The Dutch designer has stretched the utility and craft to form a work of art for his products. In other work he utilizes Freestyle ...
Scientists spy enzyme that makes us unique
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Have you ever wondered why you inherited your mother’s smile but not your father’s height? Researchers at the Universities of Leeds and Dundee are one step closer to unravelling how nature combines both maternal and paternal ...
Even Ancient Greeks and Romans Enjoyed Good Scary Stories, Professor Says
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These days, Halloween is all about good scary fun, but people have been thrilling to spooky tales as far back as ancient Greece and Rome, according to University of Massachusetts Amherst classics professor Debbie Felton, ...
New study: pine bark extract boosts nitric oxide production
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A study to be published in the October edition of Hypertension Research reveals Pycnogenol, (pic-noj-en-all), an antioxidant plant extract from the bark of the French maritime pine tree, helps individuals by enhancing healthy ...
Researchers examine world's potential to produce biodiesel
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What do the countries of Thailand, Uruguay and Ghana have in common? They all could become leading producers of the emerging renewable fuel known as biodiesel, says a study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Nelson ...
Toddlers link new words to whole objects
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Oct 17, 2007 |
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A U.S. psychologist says young toddlers look at whole objects rather than parts when learning new words.
New 150 million-year-old crab species discovered
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
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Researchers from Kent State University and the University of Bucharest, Romania, have discovered a new primitive crab species Cycloprosopon dobrogea in eastern Romania. Previously unexamined, these ancient crabs from the ...
Researchers Develop Wireless Bridge Sensors Without Batteries
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Clarkson University researchers have developed technology that uses the vibrations caused by passing traffic to power wireless bridge monitoring sensors.
Scientists estimate state-by-state mercury emissions from US fires
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Forest fires and other blazes in the United States likely release about 30 percent as much mercury as the nation's industrial sources, according to initial estimates in a new study by scientists at the National ...
Science with Integral -- 5 years on
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 17, 2007 |
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With eyes that peer into the most energetic phenomena in the universe, ESA’s Integral has been setting records, discovering the unexpected and helping understanding the unknown over its first five years.
Taiwan names small astral body
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 17, 2007 |
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Astronomers in Taiwan have named a small astral body they discovered between Mars and Jupiter Chiayi after the county where their observatory is located.
Discovery of New Antiviral Mechanism in Mammals May Improve Treatment of Hepatitis C Infections
Oct 17, 2007 |
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A team of researchers led by biologists at the University of California, San Diego has discovered a completely new mechanism that mammalian cells employ to fight infections of the Hepatitis C virus, which affects approximately ...
