Archive: 11/28/2006
Ancient predator had strongest bite of any fish, rivaling bite of large alligators and T. rex
It could bite a shark in two. It might have been the first “king of the beasts.” And it could teach scientists a lot about humans, because it is in the sister group of all jawed vertebrates.
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Scientists study 'Snowball Earth'
Canadian scientists have determined the factors involved in ending a severe ice age 750 million years ago that nearly completely froze Earth's oceans.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 28, 2006 |
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Giant 8,000-year-old tsunami is studied
Italian scientists say geological evidence suggests a giant tsunami resulted from the collapse of the eastern flanks of Mount Etna nearly 8,000 years ago.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 28, 2006 |
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Scientists to freeze women's ovaries
U.S. researchers are launching an experimental program for young female cancer patients in which an ovary is removed and frozen for possible future use.
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Geovirtual Lab Revolutionizes Information Sharing
Imagine taking a first-time business trip to Shanghai and quickly finding your way as though you’d lived there for years. Further imagine conveniently seeing directions at the same time you’re navigating the ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 28, 2006 |
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Night of the living enzyme
Inactive enzymes entombed in tiny honeycomb-shaped holes in silica can spring to life, scientists at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have found. The discovery came after salvaging ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Nov 28, 2006 |
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Fujitsu Develops Optical Element for Thermal Assisted Magnetic Recording
Fujitsu Inc. announced the development of a multi-layered optical element for thermal assisted magnetic recording. Using this optical element, engineers were able to achieve a sub-hundred nanometer optical spot size, which ...
Nov 28, 2006 |
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Painkillers may threaten power of vaccines
With flu-shot season in full swing and widespread anticipation of the HPV vaccine to prevent cervical cancer, a new University of Rochester study suggests that using common painkillers around the time of vaccination might ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Nov 28, 2006 |
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Never-before-made material similar to diamonds and ice
Not since the use of germanium in the first transistor radios and the discovery of its crucial role in semiconductor research more than 50 years ago has the study of this element garnered so much attention.
Nov 28, 2006 |
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Dark matter hides, physicists seek
Scientists don't know what dark matter is, but they know it's all over the universe. Everything humans observe in the heavens—galaxies, stars, planets and the rest—makes up only 4 percent of the universe, scientists ...
Nov 28, 2006 |
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In mice, a new statistical analysis shows a sex hormone influences a drive to explore
Exhaustive searching may not guarantee a compatible mate, but that doesn’t stop most people from trying. Now, new research from Rockefeller University suggests that estrogens may be a driving force. Research ...
Biology /
Nov 28, 2006 |
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Software Circumvents Internet Censorship
With the Dec. 1 release of psiphon software, developed by University of Toronto's Citizen Lab, people around the world will have access to a free tool enabling them to circumvent Internet censorship.
Nov 28, 2006 |
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New Study Finds that Single Impact Killed Dinosaurs
The dinosaurs, along with the majority of all other animal species on Earth, went extinct approximately 65 million years ago. Some scientists have said that the impact of a large meteorite in the Yucatan Peninsula, in what ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 28, 2006 |
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Researchers find wrinkles in human genome
A team of international scientists, including researchers at the University of Alberta, have created a map of all the known human genomic variations discovered to this point.
Nov 28, 2006 |
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Pure carbon nanotubes pass first in vivo test
In the first experiments of their kind, researchers at Rice University and The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center have determined that carbon nanotubes injected directly into the bloodstream of research lab ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Nov 28, 2006 |
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