 Polarizing filter allows astronomers to see disks surrounding black holes July 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, a team of international researchers has found a way to view the accretion disks surrounding black holes and verify that their true electromagnetic spectra match what astronomers ... | |
 Gates, Bloomberg pool riches to fight smoking July 23, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | User comments: 3
(AP) -- Microsoft founder Bill Gates and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg are pooling their piles of money to pour $375 million into a global effort to cut smoking. | |
 Western governors offer greenhouse emissions plan July 24, 2008 | User rating: 1.6 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Seven Western states are joining four Canadian provinces to propose a plan to limit greenhouse gas emissions through use of a "cap and trade" system. | |
 N.M. cavers chart unique 'snowy' river of crystals July 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Hundreds of feet beneath Earth's surface, a few seasoned cave explorers venture where no human has set foot. Their headlamps illuminate mud-covered walls, gypsum crystals and mineral deposits. The ... | |
Study: No gender differences in math performance 23 hours ago | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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We've all heard it. Many of us in fact believe it. Girls just aren't as good at math as boys. But is it true? After sifting through mountains of data - including SAT results and math scores from 7 million students who were ... | |
Creators of Scrabble knockoff on Facebook sued 21 hours ago | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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(AP) -- T-R-O-U-B-L-E could loom for a Scrabble knockoff that has become one of the most popular activities on Facebook. | |
Nanoparticles Detect Telomerase Activity 21 hours ago | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Telomerase, an enzyme that prevents chromosomes from shortening when they divide, is widely suspected of playing a key role in making cancer cells immortal. Though researchers have developed a variety of methods for measuring ... | |
 Researchers use salmonella to administer vaccines July 18, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | User comments: 2
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University have made a major step forward in their work to develop a biologically engineered organism that can effectively deliver an ... | |
 Stem Cell Chicken and Egg Debate Moves to Unlikely Arena: The Testes July 20, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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Logic says it has to be the niche. As air and water preceded life, so the niche, that hospitable environment that shelters adult stem cells in many tissues and provides factors necessary to keep them young ... | |
The genetics of the white horse unraveled July 20, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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The white horse is an icon for dignity which has had a huge impact on human culture across the world. An international team led by researchers at Uppsala University has now identified the mutation causing this spectacular ... | |
 90 billion tons of microbial organisms live in the deep biosphere July 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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Biogeoscientists show evidence of 90 billion tons of microbial organisms—expressed in terms of carbon mass—living in the deep biosphere, in a research article published online by Nature, July 20, 2008. ... | |
Microbes beneath sea floor genetically distinct July 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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Tiny microbes beneath the sea floor, distinct from life on the Earth's surface, may account for one-tenth of the Earth's living biomass, according to an interdisciplinary team of researchers, but many of these minute creatures ... | |
Pond scum could be key to new cancer therapies July 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy are collaborating with the Ohio State University and two other organizations to discover new cancer therapies derived from natural sources such as pond ... | |
Breaking up not so hard to do with Slydial July 22, 2008 | User rating: 3.4 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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(AP) -- The old song had it right: Breaking up is hard to do. But a free new phone service called Slydial might make it easier to get through that and other awkward moments - without actually having to talk to anyone. | |
How carrots help us see the color orange July 22, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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One of the easiest ways to identify an object is by its color -- perhaps it is because children's books encourage us to pair certain objects with their respective colors. Why else would so many of us automatically assume ... | |
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