Geographic isolation drives the evolution of a hot springs microbe
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Sulfolobus islandicus, a microbe that can live in boiling acid, is offering up its secrets to researchers hardy enough to capture it from the volcanic hot springs where it thrives. In a new study, researchers report that p ...
Seeing beyond the invisible: Scientists find formula to uncover our planet’s past and help predict its future
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Studies of climate evolution and the ecology of past-times are often hampered by lost information - lost variables needed to complete the picture have been long thought untraceable but scientists ...
Biologists: Greening Arctic not likely to offset permafrost carbon release
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As the frozen soil in the Arctic thaws, bacteria will break down organic matter, releasing long-stored carbon into the warming atmosphere.
Did the North Atlantic fisheries collapse due to fisheries-induced evolution?
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The Atlantic cod has, for many centuries, sustained major fisheries on both sides of the Atlantic. However, the North American fisheries have now largely collapsed. A new paper in the open-access, peer-reviewed journal PLoS ON ...
Oldest evidence of leprosy found in 4000-year-old skeleton
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 27, 2009 |
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A biological anthropologist from Appalachian State University working with an undergraduate student from Appalachian, an evolutionary biologist from UNC Greensboro, and a team of archaeologists from Deccan College (Pune, ...
What goes down, must come up: Geoscientists offer new model for degassing of Earth's mantle
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
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A new analysis of the processes that constantly stir the Earth's deep mantle is helping to explain how the mantle holds onto a portion of ancient noble gases that were trapped during the Earth's formation.
Meet the complete mouse -- whole mouse genome sequence published
May 27, 2009 |
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Are you a man or a mouse? A new paper, published in this week's issue of PLoS Biology, explores exactly what distinguishes our genome from that of the lab mouse. In the first comprehensive comparison betwee ...
Following a healthy lifestyle is on the decline in the US
May 27, 2009 |
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Despite the well-known benefits of having a lifestyle that includes physical activity, eating a diet high in fruits and vegetables, maintaining a healthy weight, moderate alcohol use and not smoking, only a small proportion ...
Capturing the birth of a synapse
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 27, 2009 |
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Researchers have identified the locking mechanism that allows some neurons to form synapses to pass along essential information. Mutations of genes that produce a critical cell-adhesion molecule involved in ...
First 'nanorust' field test slated in Mexico
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
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Rice University researchers today announced that the first field tests of "nanorust," the university's revolutionary, low-cost technology for removing arsenic from drinking water, will begin later this year ...
History of hyperactivity off-base, says researcher
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A Canadian researcher working in the U.K. says doctors, authors and educators are doing hyperactive children a disservice by claiming that hyperactivity as we understand it today has always existed.
Lamont-Doherty Seismologists Show Latest Korean Blast Larger Than 2006 Nuclear Test
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Columbia seismologists who have intensively studied North Korea’s nuclear testing efforts say Monday’s blast was certainly a nuclear bomb, roughly five times larger than the country’s first ...
People with parents who fight are more likely to have mental health problems in later life
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People with parents who were violent to each other are more likely to have mental health problems when they grow up, reveals research published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
Lessons from the vaccine-autism wars
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Researchers long ago rejected the theory that vaccines cause autism, yet many parents don't believe them. Can scientists bridge the gap between evidence and doubt?
'DTXTR' translates teen text into English
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Wot r ur kids txting? If you're wondering -- or 1dering -- there's a new online translation tool that helps decipher the code.
