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Gibbon feet provide model for early human walking

Gibbon feet provide model for early human walking

Biology /

created Dec 15, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists at the University of Liverpool have found that early humans could have walked successfully on a 'flexible' flat foot, similar to modern day gibbons.





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Simplest bacteria unravelled at the cellular level

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created 12 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Even the simplest cell appears to be far more complex than researchers had imagined. In a series of three articles in the journal Science, researchers including Vera van Noort at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) ...


EBay: holiday cell phone shopping up threefold

Technology / Internet

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(AP) -- More eBay shoppers have used cell phones to make purchases this holiday season than in past years. And it's not just to buy the hot toy du jour, Zhu Zhu Pets.


Students' sharp eyes restore dinosaur's rightful name

Students' sharp eyes restore dinosaur's rightful name

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Three graduate students in paleontology blew dust off dinosaur toes found in 1924 to discover that something didn't quite add up. After examining a few more fossilized bones, they concluded ...


Glider robot a sleek ocean explorer

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 27, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 2

The sea was heaving, the skies gray. The captain of the research ship was worried about the weather. About 120 miles off the coast of Spain, three Rutgers University scientists had a narrow window of opportunity to find and ...


House and Senate look to final health care talks

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- How many Americans will get subsidized medical coverage - plus who will pay for it - will be front-burner issues when Congress returns next month to complete President Barack Obama's health care remake.


Scientists say magma building up in Mayon volcano (AP)

Scientists say magma building up in Mayon volcano

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 26, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 0

(AP) -- Fewer earthquakes have been recorded in the Philippines' lava-spilling Mayon volcano, but magma continues to build up inside and any lull in activity could be followed by a bigger eruption, scientists ...


An easy way to see the world's thinnest material

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 1

It's been used to dye the Chicago River green on St. Patrick's Day. It's been used to find latent blood stains at crime scenes. And now researchers at Northwestern University have used it to examine the thinnest material ...


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Researchers reveal secrets of duck sex: It's all screwed up

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (11) | comments 0

Female ducks have evolved an intriguing way to avoid becoming impregnated by undesirable but aggressive males endowed with large corkscrew-shaped penises: vaginas with clockwise spirals that thwart oppositely ...


Filipino troops try to keep volcano evacuees safe (AP)

Filipino troops try to keep volcano evacuees safe

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(AP) -- Police and soldiers donned Santa hats and red clown noses and belted out songs in crammed evacuation centers in hopes of keeping 47,000 displaced residents from sneaking back to their homes on the ...


Nanoscale changes in collagen are a tipoff to bone health

Nanoscale changes in collagen are a tipoff to bone health

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Using a technique that provides detailed images of nanoscale structures, researchers at the University of Michigan and Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital have discovered changes in the collagen component of bone ...



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