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Early life on Earth may have developed more quickly than thought (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (19) | comments 0

The Earth's climate was far cooler -- perhaps more than 50 degrees -- billions of years ago, which could mean conditions for life all over the planet were more conducive than previously believed, according ...


Study shows neural stem cells in mice affected by gene associated with longevity

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A gene associated with longevity in roundworms and humans has been shown to affect the function of stem cells that generate new neurons in the adult brain, according to researchers at the Stanford University ...


Probing life's extremes in Yellowstone

Probing life's extremes in Yellowstone (w/ Podcast)

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Idaho National Laboratory biologist Frank Roberto squats on a bare, gravelly patch of ground in Yellowstone National Park's rolling backcountry. At his feet, scalding water churns in a mustard-yellow ...


The Worm That Turned Evolutionary Key

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Keelworm, widespread in the seas and tide-pools around Scotland and the rest of the UK, is unwittingly helping scientists at the University of St Andrews to understand the evolution of modern animals.


Sylvia atricapilla (Blackcap)

By feeding the birds, you could change their evolutionary fate

Biology / Plants & Animals

created 22 hours ago | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 6

Feeding birds in winter is a most innocent human activity, but it can nonetheless have profound effects on the evolutionary future of a species, and those changes can be seen in the very near term. That's ...


Control of blood clotting by platelets described; provides medical promise

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cell fragments called platelets are essential to promote blood clotting. Virginia Tech faculty members and students have discovered novel molecular interactions at the surface of platelets that control blood clotting.


Biologists save fish after landslide

Biology / Ecology

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

(AP) -- A gigantic landslide that buried a highway, uprooted homes and rerouted a river in Washington state's Cascade Range left hundreds of smaller victims: fish.


More than 18 million cubic metres of sand are set to be poured onto the new coastal band of dunes until 2011

Dutch build more dunes against rising seas

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

On the beach at Monster, bulldozers painstakingly turn sand dredged from the bottom of the North Sea bed into dunes in an ambitious effort to safeguard the Netherlands from flooding.


Understanding the pros and cons of health overhaul (AP)

Understanding the pros and cons of health overhaul

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Maybe you've been reading the health care bill in your spare time. Then perhaps you can answer this question:


The drying shores of the Dead Sea

Dead Sea needs world help to stay alive

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 3

The Dead Sea may soon shrink to a lifeless pond as Middle East political strife blocks vital measures needed to halt the decay of the world's lowest and saltiest body of water, experts say.



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