Illuminating Study Reveals How Plants Respond to Light
Biology /
Nov 23, 2007 |
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Most of us take it for granted that plants respond to light by growing, flowering and straining towards the light, and we never wonder just how plants manage to do so. But the ordinary, everyday responses ...
What happens when dad looks after the kids?
Nov 23, 2007 |
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According to new research from the University of Bristol, some fathers do not provide their young sons with the same quality of intellectual stimulation as mothers do. Boys who spend at least 15 hours a week in their father’s ...
Transporting gold across physical boundaries
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Nov 23, 2007 |
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Achieving the desired effect is often only a question of the right place and the right moment - and this also applies to drugs. In order to be transported in the bloodstream, they need to be water-soluble. ...
Mars Express - 5000 orbits and counting
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 23, 2007 |
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On 25 December 2003, Europe’s first Mars explorer arrived at the Red Planet. Almost four years later, Mars Express continues to rewrite the text books as its instruments send back a stream of images and other ...
Father-son team find Roman Briton remains
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 23, 2007 |
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The skeleton of an ancient Roman Briton apparently with some social standing was found by two men who previously unearthed a $2 million Viking treasure.
Scientists develop new high pressure experiment station
Nov 23, 2007 |
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A group of Imperial chemists headed by Professor John Seddon are developing a new piece of equipment to carry out experiments at extremely high-pressures at Diamond Light Source, the UK's new national synchrotron ...
Researcher: Inuit culture in peril
Nov 23, 2007 |
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Global warming could doom the hunting and fishing culture of the Inuit in Canada, an expert on the Arctic region says.
Museum receives reptile giraffe fossils
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 23, 2007 |
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Bones of a 230 million-year-old "reptile giraffe" found during digs in the Alps' Besano glacier were presented at Milan's Natural History Museum.
Columbus Poised for Research Breakthroughs
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 23, 2007 |
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The research capacity of the International Space Station is set to double during a December NASA mission that is a milestone for European spaceflight.
Saturday Spacewalk to Complete Harmony Hookup to Station
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 23, 2007 |
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A 6-hour, 30-minute spacewalk by International Space Station Commander Peggy Whitson and Flight Engineer Dan Tani will continue the external outfitting of the Harmony node in its new position in front of the ...
Europe's Galileo signals used for ocean remote sensing in space
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 23, 2007 |
5 / 5 (2) |
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Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd and the University of Surrey have succeeded in detecting a weakly reflected Galileo signal off the ocean surface using the GPS Reflectometry Experiment on one of SSTL’s small satellites, UK-DMC. ...
Docs try to close info gap on kids' meds
Medicine & Health / Medications
Nov 23, 2007 |
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Ten years after the U.S. government began trying to ensure children's prescription drugs were safe, doctors still have little information to guide them.
U.S., S. Koreans team for research
Nov 23, 2007 |
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A nanotechnology study will span the United States and the Pacific Ocean as University of Delaware professors team with South Korean counterparts.
Man behind stem cell war may be peacemaker
Biology /
Nov 23, 2007 |
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The U.S. researcher who set off controversy by taking stem cells from human embryos may have quieted critics by creating a stem cell without using an embryo.
Prenatal arsenic exposure detected in newborns
Nov 23, 2007 |
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MIT researchers have found that the children of mothers whose water supplies were contaminated with arsenic during their pregnancies harbored gene expression changes that may lead to cancer and other diseases later in life. ...
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