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Could natural nuclear reactors have boosted life on this and other planets?

While modern-day humans use the most advanced engineering to build nuclear reactors, Nature sometimes makes them by accident.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Farming crucial for threatened species in developing world

A number of threatened species in the developing world are entirely dependent on human agriculture for their survival, according to new research by the University of East Anglia (UEA).

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Neuroscientists find that two rare autism-related disorders are caused by opposing malfunctions in the brain

(Medical Xpress) -- Most cases of autism are not caused by a single genetic mutation. However, several disorders with autism-like symptoms, including the rare Fragile X syndrome, can be traced to a specific mutation. Several ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 24, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Przewalski's wild horses gallop back to life

Their galloping stocky, sandy-brown silhouettes inspired dreamy pre-historic cave paintings.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Gold rush hurts aquatic life

Gold prospectors chasing $1,600-an-ounce flecks in river bottoms east of Charlotte also might be sucking life out of the streams, experts say.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 06, 2011 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 8

NIH teacher resources feature rare diseases and evolution

Teachers now have an innovative way to help students approach challenging biology questions with two new free curriculum supplements from the National Institutes of Health: Evolution and Medicine,and Rare Diseases ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Wildfire threatens Reunion Island national park

French authorities sent reinforcements Monday to battle a wildfire raging through the national park of Reunion Island, a unique ecosystem designated a World Heritage Site.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 31, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Antarctic fur seals breed where they were born

Scientists have discovered that female Antarctic fur seals have an uncanny ability to return to within a body length of where they were born when it's time to breed.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Sildenafil may benefit children with pulmonary arterial hypertension

Sildenafil is currently approved for adult pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH); however, new research presented at CHEST 2011, the 77th annual meeting of the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP), shows the drug may ...

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Oct 24, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

China rare earths supplier suspends production

(AP) -- China's biggest producer of rare earths is suspending production for one month in hopes of boosting slumping prices of the exotic minerals used in mobile phones and other high-tech products.

Technology / Business

created Oct 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 4

Extremely strong coupling superconductivity of heavy-electrons in two-dimensions

The ultimately strong electron-electron interaction in metal is realized in the so-called heavy-fermion compound containing rare earth elements, in which the electron effective mass is enhanced by a few hundred ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Oct 17, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 5

New Zealand counts wildlife cost from oil spill

In a wildlife rescue centre on New Zealand's Bay of Plenty, volunteers grimly bag the oil-soaked bodies of dead birds, victims of the country's biggest sea pollution disaster.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Critical minerals ignite geopolitical storm

The clean energy economy of the future hinges on a lot of things, chief among them the availability of the scores of rare earth elements and other elements used to make everything from photovoltaic panels and cellphone displays ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 10, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Rare seahorses found in Thames

Evidence of a colony of rare seahorses has been discovered in the Thames, during a routine fisheries survey at Greenwich, the Environment Agency said on Friday.

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Women exposed to diethylstilbestrol in the womb face increased cancer risk

A large study of the daughters of women who had been given DES, the first synthetic form of estrogen, during pregnancy has found that exposure to the drug while in the womb (in utero) is associated with many ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 05, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast