WikiPathways gives the people the power to curate July 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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The exponential growth of diverse types of biological data presents the research community with an unprecedented challenge to keep the flood of biological data as accessible, up-to-date, and integrated as possible. | |
Pregnant mice block out unwelcome admirers to protect their pups July 20, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Mouse mothers-to-be have a remarkable way to protect their unborn pups. Because the smell of a strange male's urine can cause miscarriage and reactivate the ovulatory cycle, pregnant mice prevent the action of such olfactory ... | |
 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. ... | |
 Ultrasonic frogs can tune their ears to different frequencies July 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Researchers have discovered that a frog that lives near noisy springs in central China can tune its ears to different sound frequencies, much like the tuner on a radio can shift from one frequency to another. ... | |
Web networking photos come back to bite defendants July 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Two weeks after Joshua Lipton was charged in a drunken driving crash that seriously injured a woman, the 20-year-old college junior attended a Halloween party dressed as a prisoner. Pictures from the party showed ... | |
Commercial bees spreading disease to wild pollinating bees July 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Bees provide crucial pollination service to numerous crops and up to a third of the human diet comes from plants pollinated by insects. However, pollinating bees are suffering widespread declines in North America and scientists ... | |
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 ... | |
 Shimmering ferroelectric domains July 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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Ferroelectric materials are named after ferromagnetic ones because they behave in a similar way. The main difference: these materials are not magnetic, but permanently electrically polarized. They have great ... | |
 Deep Impact Films Earth as an Alien World July 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft has created a video of the moon transiting (passing in front of) Earth as seen from the spacecraft's point of view 31 million miles away. Scientists are using ... | |
Scholars plan to reunite ancient Bible -- online July 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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(AP) -- The oldest surviving copy of the New Testament, a 4th century version that had its Gospels and epistles spread across the world, is being made whole again - online. | |
 It takes nerves for flies to keep a level head July 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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The nerve connections that keep a fly's gaze stable during complex aerial manoeuvres, enabling it to respond quickly to obstacles in its flight path, are revealed in new detail in research published today ... | |
Ancient Galactic Magnetic Fields Stronger than Expected July 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Mining the far reaches of the universe for clues about its past, a team of scientists including Philipp Kronberg of Los Alamos National Laboratory has proposed that magnetic fields of ancient galaxies like ... | |
 The Pole star comes to life again July 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 45 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Northern Star, whose vibrations were thought to be dying away, appears to have come to life again. | |
 The 2008 Perseid Meteor Shower July 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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Mark your calendar: The 2008 Perseid meteor shower peaks on August 12th and it should be a good show. | |
Closing the hydrogen economic loop July 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 31 vote(s)
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The inventor of the nickel metal hydride (NiMH) technology used for building batteries for countless portable electronic gadgets and now hybrid gas-electric cars believes the hydrogen economy is already upon us. | |
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