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Volcanic Clue

Mercury's surface dominated by volcanism and iron-deficiency

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 03, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (16) | comments 2

Volcanism has played a more extensive role in shaping the surface of Mercury than scientists had thought. This result comes from multispectral imaging data gathered in January 2008 by MESSENGER, the latest ...





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An easy way to see the world's thinnest material

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | 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 ...


Largest study of PGD children shows embryo biopsy is safe for singleton pregnancies

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The largest and longest running study of children born after preimplantation genetic diagnosis and screening has shown that embryo biopsy does not adversely affect the health of babies born as the result of a subsequent singleton ...


Foot binding and a biological approach to the study of Chinese culture

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Exaptation is a familiar concept to evolutionary biologists. It's the basic idea explaining that a trait can evolve because it starts serving a different function. Think of birds: at first, the most important ...


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Samsung Launches M5650 Music Phone

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Samsung Electronics today unveiled the Samsung M5650, a music-focused addition to its popular lineup of full touch screen handsets for young mobile users.


Tiny whispering gallery

Tiny whispering gallery: Sensor can detect a single nanoparticle and take its measurement

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (16) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Nanotechnology has already made it to the shelves of your local pharmacy and grocery: nanoparticles are found in anti-odor socks, makeup, makeup remover, sunscreen, anti-graffiti paint, home ...


Heart cells on lab chip display 'nanosense' that guides behavior

Heart cells on lab chip display 'nanosense' that guides behavior

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Johns Hopkins biomedical engineers, working with colleagues in Korea, have produced a laboratory chip with nanoscopic grooves and ridges capable of growing cardiac tissue that more closely resembles natural ...


Oh, the Secrets Ice Crystals Will Tell!

Studying ice crystals to understand the cloud-climate connection

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Beginning in mid-December, scientists will undertake a special mission to squeeze the secrets out of ice crystals in cirrus clouds. The SPARTICUS, or Small Particles in Cirrus, campaign will ...


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The mammoths' swan song revised

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (12) | comments 4

This is shown by samples of ancient DNA, analysed by an international team of research scientists under the leadership of Professor Eske Willerslev from Copenhagen University. Analyses of ancient DNA thereby ...


Researchers learn why invasive plants are spreading rapidly in forests

Researchers learn why invasive plants are spreading rapidly in forests

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Invasive plants are advancing into Eastern forests at an alarming rate, and the rapid spread has been linked by researchers in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences to forest road ...


DNA study sheds new light on horse evolution

DNA study sheds new light on horse evolution

Biology / Evolution

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 50

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ancient DNA retrieved from extinct horse species from around the world has challenged one of the textbook examples of evolution - the fossil record of the horse family Equidae over the past ...



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