Long-lived deep-sea fishes imperiled by technology, overfishing
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Many commercially prized fish from the depths of the world's oceans are severely threatened by over-fishing and the species' ability to recover is constrained by the fishes' long lifespans and low reproductive success, a ...
Green chemistry can help nanotechnology mature, professor says
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Feb 19, 2007 |
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“Around the world, there is a growing urgency about nanotechnology and its possible health and environmental impacts,” Hutchison said in his talk Sunday during a workshop at the annual meeting of the American Association ...
Boreal ecosystems linkage is discovered
Feb 19, 2007 |
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U.S. researchers say they have found links between both spring and autumn temperature changes and the uptake and loss of carbon dioxide.
Study unclear on new wave of U.S. violence
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A criminology expert said, despite a recent increase in the U.S. murder rate, it's not yet clear whether the nation faces a new wave of violent crime.
A new process for making much-sought iron nanospheres
Feb 19, 2007 |
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Using a process that creates bubbles as hot as the surface of the sun, chemists are reporting development of a new method for making hollow hematite (iron oxide) nanospheres. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's ...
Apollo 1 capsule moved to new facility
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 19, 2007 |
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The historic Apollo 1 capsule has been moved to a newer, environmentally controlled warehouse at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va.
DNA analysis reveals rapid population shift among Pleistocene cave bears
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Feb 19, 2007 |
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Studying DNA obtained from teeth of ancient cave bears, researchers have been able to identify a shift in a particular population of the bears inhabiting a European valley in the late Pleistocene era. The findings illustrate ...
Study shows teens become less active as they grow older
Feb 19, 2007 |
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As they grow older, teenagers are spending more time in front of the computer and television and less time participating in physical activities, according to researchers at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. ...
Mouse stem cell line advance suggests potential for IVF-incompetent eggs
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Researchers have found that mouse oocytes that fail to become fertilized during in vitro fertilization are nevertheless often capable of succeeding as "cytoplasmic donors" during a subsequent cloning step using so-called ...
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