Three first-ever atomic nuclei created at NSCL; new super-heavy aluminum isotopes may exist
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Researchers at Michigan State University’s National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, NSCL, have created three never-before-observed isotopes of magnesium and aluminum. The results not only stake out new ...
Fossil record supports evidence of impending mass extinction
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Global temperatures predicted for the coming centuries may trigger a new ‘mass extinction event’, where over 50 per cent of animal and plant species would be wiped out, warn scientists at the Universities of York and Leeds.
Study casts doubt on creationism
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The St Bernard dog – named after the 11th century priest Bernard of Menthon – may have ironically challenged the theory of creationism, say scientists.
Daylight savings time disrupts humans' natural circadian rhythm
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When people living in many parts of the world move their clocks forward one hour in the spring in observance of daylight saving time (DST), their bodies’ internal, daily rhythms don’t adjust with them, reports a new study ...
Sony Newly Improved Cyber-Shot 4GB Internal Memory Set for Launch
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Oct 24, 2007 |
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Sony is set to release the latest member of the Cyber-shot family. It has 4GB of internal flash memory and a host of improved features. The release date for Japan is late November and the rest of the world ...
California Wildfires Continue to Grow: NASA Satellite Images Show
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NASA satellites have obtained new images of the California wildfires, illustrating the immense scale of the blazes. The National Interagency Fire Center reports that 12 large, uncontained fires have burned ...
Severely restricted diet linked to physical fitness into old age
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Severely restricting calories leads to a longer life, scientists have proved. New research now has shown for the first time that such a diet also can maintain physical fitness into advanced age, slowing the seemingly inevitable ...
Massive California fires consistent with climate change
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The catastrophic fires that are sweeping Southern California are consistent with what climate change models have been predicting for years, experts say, and they may be just a prelude to many more such events in the future ...
Dwarf galaxies need dark matter too
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Stars in dwarf spheroidal galaxies behave in a way that suggests the galaxies are utterly dominated by dark matter, University of Michigan astronomers have found.
Study of Lions and Wildebeest Finds Being Social Stabilizes Ecosystems
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Breaking with 80 years of ecological theory, scientists at the University of Minnesota and the Universities of Guelph and British Columbia have found that the best way to spot a sustainable relationship between ...
Hearing changes how we perceive gender
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Think about the confused feelings that occur when you meet someone whose tone of voice doesn’t seem to quite fit with his or her gender. A new study by neuroscientists from Northwestern University focuses on the brain’s processing ...
Adult stem cells lack key regulator
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The protein Oct4 plays a major role in embryonic stem cells, acting as a master regulator of the genes that keep the cells in an undifferentiated state. Unsurprisingly, researchers studying adult stem cells ...
Scientists detect first known belt of moonlets in Saturn's rings
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A narrow belt harboring moonlets as large as football stadiums discovered in Saturn's outermost ring probably resulted when a larger moon was shattered by a wayward asteroid or comet eons ago, according to ...
Electricity grid could become a type of Internet
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In the future everyone who is connected to the electricity grid will be able to upload and download packages of electricity to and from this network. At least, that is one of the transformations the electricity grid could ...
Can You Feel The Heat? Your Cilia Can
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Johns Hopkins researchers and colleagues have found a previously unrecognized role for tiny hair-like cell structures known as cilia: They help form our sense of touch.
