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Red-eyed Treefrog Embryos, Showing Their Bright Red External Gills

Red-eyed treefrog embryos actively avoid asphyxiation inside their eggs

Biology /

created Nov 03, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Boston University undergraduate Jessica Rogge and associate professor Karen Warkentin, working at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute's laboratories in Gamboa, Panama, discovered that frog embryos ...





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Scientists discover bioluminescent 'green bombers' from the deep sea

Scientists discover bioluminescent 'green bombers' from the deep sea

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the latest proof that the oceans continue to offer remarkable findings and much of their vastness remains to be explored, scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego ...


There's no perfect way to back up your hard drive

Electronics / Hardware

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (4) | comments 3

If there's one thing to keep in mind about computers, it's this: Hard drives fail. I relearned that lesson recently when one of my laptop's external hard drives stopped working and then my 4-year-old iPod died.


Hitachi develops a 3mm thin-type finger vein authentication module

Hitachi develops a 3mm thin-type finger vein authentication module

Electronics / Hardware

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Hitachi, Ltd. today announced the development of a 3mm thick thin-type finger vein authentication module. Finger vein authentication is a biometric identification technology which employs near infrared light ...


New family care model aids at-risk families

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Aug 31, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Many families struggle on a day-to-day basis with insufficient in-home care or problematic out-of-home care for their emotionally or behaviorally troubled children and adolescents. Researchers have recently shown that an ...


Researchers find few side effects from radiation treatment given after prostate cancer surgery

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The largest single-institution study of its kind has found few complications in prostate cancer patients treated with radiotherapy after surgery to remove the prostate. Men in this study received radiotherapy after a prostate-specific ...


Adding proton therapy 'boost' to X-ray radiation therapy reduces prostate cancer recurrences

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Men who receive a "boost" of proton therapy after receiving a standard course of X-ray radiation therapy have fewer recurrences of their prostate cancer compared to men who did not receive the extra dose of proton radiation, ...


New species of ghostshark from California and Baja California

New species of ghostshark from California and Baja California

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

New species are not just discovered in exotic locales -- even places as urban as California still yield discoveries of new plants and animals. Academy scientists recently named a new species of chimaera, an ...


Newly discovered signaling pathway ensures that plants remember to flower

Newly discovered signaling pathway ensures that plants remember to flower

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Why do some plants blossom even when days are short and gray? Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology have found the answer to this question: An endogenous mechanism ...


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Apple denies battery problem with exploding iPhones

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Aug 28, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 2

US technology giant Apple on Friday rejected reports that overheating batteries had caused some of its iPhone devices to explode in users' hands, blaming incidents in France on "external pressure".


Charge your cell phone using light, courtesy SunCore

Charge your cell phone using light, courtesy SunCore

Technology / Energy

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (11) | comments 2

SunCore is a little known Irvine, Calif.-based company that's on the cusp of shipping some potentially revolutionary technology.



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