News tagged with armin
Shape, fit of reproductive organs evolve quickly and in concert, leaving size behind
Believed critical for determining which individuals can -- or cannot -- successfully reproduce with each other, genitalia not only figure prominently in the origin of new species, but are also typically the ...
Dec 15, 2011 |
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Vindictiveness doesn't pay
Vindictiveness doesn't pay. This has been demonstrated by a current study at Bonn and Maastricht Universities. According to this study, a person inclined to deal with inequity on a tit-for-tat basis tends to experience more ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Mar 26, 2009 |
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Hackers plot DIY Sputniks for Internet freedom
(PhysOrg.com) -- Hackers at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin, which wrapped up over the weekend, are toasting the New Year with a newly announced plan for a hacker-owned satellite communications ...
Jan 02, 2012 |
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Largest ever gas mix caught in ultra-freeze trap
A team of scientists have made it easier to study atomic or subatomic-scale properties of the building blocks of matter (which also include protons, neutrons and electrons) known as fermions by slowing down the movement of ...
Dec 13, 2011 |
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The big picture: Long-term imaging reveals intriguing patterns of human brain maturation
Neuroimaging has provided fascinating insight into the dynamic nature of human brain maturation. However, most studies of developmental changes in brain anatomy have considered individual locations in relative isolation from ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 07, 2011 |
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Star Wars laser offers new insight into Earth's atmosphere
With the need to understand global change one of today’s most pressing scientific challenges, ESA is exploring novel techniques for future space missions. Firing laser pulses between satellites is promising ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 30, 2011 |
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Smut fungus has found a new way to switch off plant immune defence
Pathogens causing plant diseases are an enormous threat in agriculture. They can spread rapidly and cause massive crop losses, particularly in today’s large-scale monocultures. To infect a plant successfully, ...
Oct 06, 2011 |
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Survival niche for cancer cells
Cancer cells do not grow equally well everywhere in the body. Often, they first create the conditions in which they can grow. Many years ago researchers discovered that solid tumors attract blood vessels to ensure their supply ...
Jun 06, 2011 |
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Evolution in reverse: insects recover lost 'wings'
The extravagant headgear of small bugs called treehoppers are in fact wing-like appendages that grew back 200 million years after evolution had supposedly cast them aside, according to a study published Thursday ...
May 05, 2011 |
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Early history of genetics revised
The early history of genetics has to be re-written in the light of new findings. Scientists from the University Jena (Germany) in co-operation with colleagues from Prague found out that the traditional history ...
May 03, 2011 |
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Revealing the wiring that allows us to adapt to the unexpected
Wouldn't life be easy if everything happened as we anticipated? In reality, our brains are able to adapt to the unexpected using an inbuilt network that makes predictions about the world and monitors how those predictions ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jan 31, 2011 |
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Rich getting richer, data shows
A new report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), using data provided by McMaster economist Mike Veall, suggests that Canada's richest continue to get richer at a much faster ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Dec 02, 2010 |
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