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Phoenix Scrapes 'Almost Perfect' Icy Soil for Analysis
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 01, 2008 |
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NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander enlarged the "Snow White" trench and scraped up little piles of icy soil on Saturday, June 28, the 33rd Martian day, or sol, of the mission. Scientists say that the scrapings are ...
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Sample-Collection Tests by Phoenix Lander Continue
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 09, 2008 |
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NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's science and engineering teams are testing methods to get an icy sample into the Robotic Arm scoop for delivery to the Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyzer, or TEGA.
Antibacterial Toothpaste and Tongue Scraping Eliminate Halitosis
Apr 07, 2008 |
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The stigma and embarrassment associated with chronic bad breath, or halitosis, can be sufficient to turn sufferers into near-hermits. One in four adults has halitosis, statistics show, and the percentage may be as high as ...
Phoenix Completes Longest Work Shift
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 23, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Phoenix early Tuesday finished its longest work shift of the mission. The lander stayed awake for 33 hours, completing tasks that included rasping and scraping by the robotic arm, in addition ...
Immune system kick-started in moist nasal lining in sinusitis, asthma and colds
Apr 29, 2008 |
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Scientists at Johns Hopkins have outlined a new path for potential therapies to combat inflammation associated with sinusitis and asthma based on a new understanding of the body’s earliest immune response in the nose and ...
Evidence from dirty teeth: Ancient Peruvians ate well
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Dec 01, 2008 |
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Starch grains preserved on human teeth reveal that ancient Peruvians ate a variety of cultivated crops including squash, beans, peanuts and the fruit of cultivated pacay trees.
Study: King Tut liked red wine best
Oct 27, 2005 |
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A University of Barcelona research team has discovered Egypt's King Tutankhamun was partial to wine, preferring red over white.
Cold virus found to manipulate genes
Oct 24, 2008 |
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Sneezing, runny nose and chills? You might blame the human rhinovirus (HRV), which causes 30 to 50 percent of common colds. But in reality, it's not the virus itself but HRV's ability to manipulate your genes that is the ...
Scientists discover 5 new species of sea slugs from the Tropical Eastern Pacific
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May 31, 2007 |
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The Tropical Eastern Pacific, a discrete biogeographic region that has an extremely high rate of endemism among its marine organisms, continues to yield a wealth of never-before-described marine animals to ...
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