Like father, like son: Attractiveness is hereditary
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Nov 20, 2007 |
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Sexy dads produce sexy sons, in the insect world at least. While scientists already knew that specific attractive traits, from cricket choruses to peacocks’ tails, are passed on to their offspring, the heritability of attractiveness ...
Bargain Basement Satellites
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 20, 2007 |
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Looking for a cheap fare 'round the world? Your search is over. A NASA team has built a small, low-cost satellite called FASTSAT, and it's almost ready to fly. Need some details before you sign up? Read on.
Near Zero Emissions Coal study launched in Beijing
Nov 20, 2007 |
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China’s CO2 emissions from using coal are set to double by 2030, the scale of which is significant in the context of mitigating global climate change. In view of the essential role of coal in China’s energy system, it is vita ...
Digging biblical history, or the end of the world
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 20, 2007 |
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Some come to dig the Tel Aviv University-directed archeological site at Tel Megiddo because they are enchanted by ancient stories of King Solomon. Others come because they believe in a New Testament prophecy ...
Expedition 16 Completes Spacewalk
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 20, 2007 |
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International Space Station Commander Peggy Whitson and Flight Engineer Dan Tani wound up a 7-hour, 16-minute spacewalk to outfit the Harmony node in its new position in front of the U.S laboratory Destiny ...
During biggest travel weekend, beware of states that don't enforce seat belt laws
Nov 20, 2007 |
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Thanksgiving marks the heaviest travel weekend of the year and that means large increases in the number of fatal car crashes, particularly in rural areas. And nowhere is that more true than in states that don’t adequately ...
Nuclear desalination
Nov 20, 2007 |
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New solutions to the ancient problem of maintaining a fresh water supply is discussed in a special issue of the Inderscience publication International Journal of Nuclear Desalination. With predictions that more than 3.5 bi ...
Study looks at sensing, movement and behavior
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Nov 20, 2007 |
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Driving down a country road at night your car’s headlights illuminate a deer in your path, and the creature doesn’t move. Depending on your speed and other conditions, chances are good you will hit the deer. And if you do, ...
Scientists Decode Genomes of Diverse TB Isolates
Nov 20, 2007 |
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An international collaboration led by researchers in the US and South Africa today announced the first genome sequence of an extensively drug resistant (XDR) strain of the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, one linked ...
Researcher to Study Dog Genome for Clues to Lymphoma in Humans
Nov 20, 2007 |
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They've fetched our slippers and provided us with companionship and unconditional love for generations, but those aren't the only benefits that dogs provide. According to a North Carolina State University researcher, the ...
Secrets in rare cartography
Nov 20, 2007 |
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Whales were the economic drivers of the 1850s. So important was this resource that the founder of the U.S. Oceanographic Office, Matthew Fontaine Maury, created a map showing the worldwide distribution of ...
FDA says product mislabeled, misleading
Nov 20, 2007 |
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U.S. regulators seized about $2 million of potentially harmful eye products that contain a drug ingredient officials said could lead to decreased vision.
Reprogramming the debate: stem-cell finding alters ethical controversy
Nov 20, 2007 |
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When University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers succeeded in reprogramming skin cells to behave like embryonic stem cells, they also began to redefine the political and ethical dynamics of the stem-cell debate, a leading bio ...
Research could lead to new treatments for brain injuries
Nov 20, 2007 |
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MIT researchers have identified a family of proteins key to the formation of the communication networks critical for normal brain function. Their research could lead to new treatments for brain injury and ...
Rogue bacteria involved in both heart disease and infertility
Nov 20, 2007 |
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Outside the laboratory, Anthony Azenabor is outgoing and talkative, an extrovert who laughs heartily at his own jokes. But engrossed in his research, Azenabor is a shrewd and serious investigator who coaxes ...
