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Erosion of the Yucca Mountain crest
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May 05, 2009 |
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The Yucca Mountain crest in Nevada, USA has been proposed as a permanent site for high level radioactive waste. But a new study, already published as an article in press by Elsevier's journal Geomorphology and recently includ ...
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Slowing evolution to stop drug resistance
Nov 16, 2009 |
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Infectious organisms that become resistant to antibiotics are a serious threat to human society. They are also a natural part of evolution. In a new project, researchers at the University of Gothenburg are attempting to find ...
Ecological speciation by sexual selection on good genes: Is speciation adaptive?
Nov 26, 2009 |
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Darwin suggested that the action of natural selection can produce new species, but 150 years after the publication of his famous book, 'On the Origin of Species', debate still continues on the mechanisms of speciation. New ...
Lifecycles of tropical cyclones predicted in global computer model
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Dec 19, 2008 |
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The initial results of the first computer model that simulates the global atmosphere with a detailed representation of individual clouds have been analyzed by a team of scientists at the International Pacific Research Center ...
Evolution still scientifically stable
Sep 14, 2009 |
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An international team of researchers, including Monash University biochemists, has discovered evidence at the molecular level in support of one of the key tenets of Darwin's theory of evolution.
Using synthetic evolution to study the brain: Researchers model key part of neurons
Oct 02, 2009 |
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The human brain has evolved over millions of years to become a vast network of billions of neurons and synaptic connections. Understanding it is one of humankind's greatest pursuits.
Can R2 gravity explain dark matter?
Apr 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- "In many ways, the standard model of cosmology works very well," Jose Cembranos tells PhysOrg. "However, there are very basic features that we just do not know. We have dark energy and dark matter. They d ...
Wild about the evolution of domesticated yeast
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Feb 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It lives all around us and is probably one of the earliest domesticated organisms. Humans have been using it for tens of thousands of years. There is evidence that the Ancient Egyptians used it for baking ...
Research suggests we are genetically programmed to care about climate change
May 27, 2009 |
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Humans may be programmed by evolution to care about the future of the environment, suggests research published today.
Research identifies importance of diet in snake venom evolution
Apr 08, 2009 |
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Axel Barlow's paper in Proceedings of the Royal Society B on saw-scaled vipers shows that snakes which have evolved to feed on scorpions have also evolved venom which is more lethal to scorpions, demonstrating that c ...
There's a speed limit to the pace of evolution, biologists say
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a theoretical model that informs the understanding of evolution and determines how quickly an organism will evolve using a catalogue of "evolutionary speed limits." ...
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