'Super Earths' Will Have Plate Tectonics, Scientists Predict
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The discoveries of large Earth-like planets outside our Solar System, so-called “super-Earths,” has prompted much speculation about just how Earth-like they may be. Recently, scientists from Harvard University suggested that ...
Astronomers discover stars with carbon atmospheres
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Astronomers have discovered white dwarf stars with pure carbon atmospheres. The discovery could offer a unique view into the hearts of dying stars.
Genetic Underpinnings of Wood Digestion by Termite Gut Microbes Revealed
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When termites are chewing on your home, your immediate thought probably isn't "I wonder how they digest that stuff?" But biologists have been gnawing on the question for more than a century. The key is not just the termite, ...
Giant fossil sea scorpion bigger than man
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 21, 2007 |
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The discovery of a giant fossilized claw from an ancient sea scorpion indicates that when alive it would have been about 2.5 meters long, much taller than the average man.
Buckyball birth observed by Sandia nanotech researcher
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Almost everyone in the scientific community has heard of buckyballs, but no one until Sandia’s Jianyu Huang has seen one being born.
The power of multiples: Connecting wind farms can make a more reliable - and cheaper - power source
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Wind power, long considered to be as fickle as wind itself, can be groomed to become a steady, dependable source of electricity and delivered at a lower cost than at present, according to scientists at Stanford University.
Mars' Molten Past
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 21, 2007 |
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Mars was covered in an ocean of molten rock for about 100 million years after the planet formed, researchers from the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, Texas, UC Davis, and NASA's Johnson Space Center ...
Babies prefer good Samaritans
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 21, 2007 |
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In the first evidence of its kind to date, Yale researchers find that infants prefer individuals who help others to those who either do nothing, or interfere with others’ goals, it is reported today in Nature.
New research shows climate change triggers wars and population decline
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Climate change may be one of the most significant threats facing humankind. A new study shows that long-term climate change may ultimately lead to wars and population decline.
The early relatives of flowering plants
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The emergence of flowering plants is regarded as a major botanical mystery. In today’s edition of the scientific magazine Nature, an international research team with participation from the Paul Scherrer Instit ...
Probing the nurseries of miniature planetary systems
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New research led by a University of St Andrews astronomer has found evidence for what might be the raw material for the beginning of shrunken versions of our solar system - miniature worlds in the making.
Neutron scatter camera provides a new-and-improved way to look at radiation
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In an effort to find an answer to the problem of identifying smuggled special nuclear material (SNM), researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in California say a neutron scatter camera they are developing ...
Don't judge a brook by its color -- brown waters are more natural
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Over the last 20 years lakes and streams in remote parts of the UK, southern Scandinavia and eastern North America have been increasingly stained brown by dissolved organic matter. In this week’s Nature journal (22 Novemb ...
Direct evidence that bioclocks control chromosome coiling
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There is a new twist on the question of how biological clocks work. In recent years, scientists have discovered that biological clocks help organize a dizzying array of biochemical processes in the body. Despite ...
Antidepressant found to extend lifespan in C. elegans
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A team of scientists led by Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator Linda B. Buck has found that a drug used to treat depression can extend the lifespan of adult roundworms.
