New, bigger barnacle discovered on Florida’s east coast
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Oct 25, 2006 |
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A bigger barnacle than Florida has seen before has made its way to the state’s east coast. Experts aren’t sure what the oversized Megabalanus coccopoma’s impact will be, but it’s been spotted this month in St. Augustine and ...
Twenty-two Projects Keep Supercomputer Super Busy
Oct 25, 2006 |
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With 54 teraflops of computing power, Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Cray XT3 is helping solve scientific grand challenges, but scheduling the many research projects and keeping the massive machine operating at peak capacity ...
Pollinators help one-third of world's crop production, says new study
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Oct 25, 2006 |
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Pollinators such as bees, birds and bats affect 35 percent of the world's crop production, increasing the output of 87 of the leading food crops worldwide, finds a new study published today (Wednesday, Oct. ...
Human virus makes fat stem cells fatter
Oct 25, 2006 |
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U.S. research showing how a human virus targets fat stem cells to produce more, fatter, fat cells is providing insights into the study of obesity.
Study: LA Has State's Worst Beach Water
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(AP) -- A study released Tuesday found that once again Los Angeles County has the state's most polluted beaches, but this time a new city has been anointed as the county's biggest loser - Long Beach.
Studies: Med disparities by race persist
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Racial minorities are less likely than whites to have major surgeries at the hospitals where those operations are performed best, a U.S. study said Wednesday.
NASA Posts Panorama to Celebrate Rover's 1,000th Martian Day
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 25, 2006 |
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NASA's long-lived Mars Exploration Rover Spirit will finish its 1,000th Martian day Thursday, continuing a successful mission originally planned for 90 Martian days.
Deadly frog disease is linked to climate change in Europe, say researchers
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Oct 25, 2006 |
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Climate change in Europe is worsening the impact of a deadly disease which is wiping out vast numbers of amphibians, according to new research.
NASA OKs construction of satellite
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 25, 2006 |
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NASA has approved construction of a satellite that will scan the entire sky in infrared light to detect cool stars and bright galaxies.
Space radiation threats to astronauts addressed in federal research study
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 25, 2006 |
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A better understanding of solar storms and how best to protect astronauts from space radiation is needed as NASA pushes toward manned missions to the moon and Mars in the coming decades, according to a new National Research ...
Trotting with emus, walk with dinosaurs
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 25, 2006 |
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Scientists are watching emus to learn more about dinosaurs that once trotted along a long-lost U.S. coastline during the Middle Jurassic period.
Honey bee chemoreceptors found for smell and taste
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Oct 25, 2006 |
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Honey bees have a much better sense of smell than fruit flies or mosquitoes, but a much worse sense of taste, according to researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Mouse DNA to aid biomedical research
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Researchers announced today that they have successfully resequenced the DNA of 15 mouse strains most commonly used in biomedical research. More than 8.3 million single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were discovered among ...
HFI-1 gene has key role in both oxygen sensing, heat shock pathway
Oct 25, 2006 |
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University of Oregon researchers have found an unexpected regulatory link between cellular responses to hypoxia and heat shock. Central to the discovery is a gene known as Hypoxia-Inducible Factor-1 (HIF-1) that is critical ...
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