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Oetzi's last supper
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Dec 01, 2008 |
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What we eat can say a lot about us – where we live, how we live and eventually even when we lived. From the analysis of the intestinal contents of the 5,200-year-old Iceman from the Eastern Alps, Professor James Dickson from ...
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DNA molecules in moss open door to new biotechnology
Nov 06, 2009 |
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Plasmids, which are DNA molecules capable of independent replication in cells, have played an important role in gene technology. Researchers from Uppsala University in Sweden have now demonstrated that plasmid-based methods, ...
Telltale moss: Mother Nature gives clues for improving stem cell techniques
Sep 29, 2009 |
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Hikers know that moss on a tree trunk always points north. According to new research by Israeli and German scientists, this ancient plant may also provide a new "compass" for stem cell research, telling scientists how better ...
Biologists Unlock Secrets of Plants' Growing Tips
Aug 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Biologist Magdalena Bezanilla and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have used a technique they call multi-gene silencing to, for the first time, simultaneously silence nine genes in a ...
Large trees declining in Yosemite
Jul 29, 2009 |
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Large trees have declined in Yosemite National Park during the 20th century, and warmer climate conditions may play a role.
Earth's highest known microbial systems fueled by volcanic gases
Mar 03, 2009 |
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Gases rising from deep within the Earth are fueling the world's highest-known microbial ecosystems, which have been detected near the rim of the 19,850-foot-high Socompa volcano in the Andes by a University ...
Coffee cultivation good for diversity in agrarian settlements but not in forests
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Feb 19, 2009 |
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Coffee shrubs, both in themselves and because they are most often cultivated in the shade of large trees, can have a positive impact on plant and animal diversity in those parts of the landscape that are deforested and dominated ...
Inmates conduct ecological research on slow-growing mosses
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Oct 20, 2008 |
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Nalini Nadkarni of Evergreen State College currently advises a team of researchers who sport shaved heads, tattooed biceps and prison-issued garb rather than the lab coats and khakis typically worn by researchers. ...
As Andean glacier retreats, tiny life forms swiftly move in, study shows
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Sep 08, 2008 |
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A University of Colorado at Boulder team working at 16,400 feet in the Peruvian Andes has discovered how barren soils uncovered by retreating glacier ice can swiftly establish a thriving community of microbes, ...
Space: The not-so-final frontier
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Sep 08, 2008 |
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Of all environments, space must be the most hostile: It is freezing cold, close to absolute zero, there is a vacuum, so no oxygen, and the amount of lethal radiation from stars is very high. This is why humans need to be ...
Antarctic fossils paint a picture of a much warmer continent
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Aug 04, 2008 |
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National Science Foundation-funded scientists working in an ice-free region of Antarctica have discovered the last traces of tundra--in the form of fossilized plants and insects--on the interior of the southernmost ...
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