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BLUE STRAGGLERS IN GLOBULAR CLUSTER 47 TUCANAE

Even stars get fat -- And 'stellar cannibalism' is the reason

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 14, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Researchers have discovered evidence that blue stragglers in globular clusters, whose existence has long puzzled astronomers, are the result of 'stellar cannibalism' in binary stars. In other words, binary ...





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Evidence unearthed of possible mass cannibalism in Neolithic Europe

Evidence unearthed of possible mass cannibalism in Neolithic Europe

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- Archaeologists studying a 7,000-year-old site in what is now south-west Germany have found evidence suggesting that more than 500 people may have been the victims of cannibalism.


Brooding fishes take up nutrients from their own children

Brooding fishes take up nutrients from their own children

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

In the pipefish, the male cares for the offspring. Apart from the ones he sucks the life out of. The discovery of filial cannibalism in the pipefish is now creating a stir in the research world.


A misplaced dinosaur tooth may have been cannibalism

A misplaced dinosaur tooth may have been cannibalism

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- You don't have to be a paleontologist to suppose that way back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth chances were good meat eaters would dined on one of their own. Short of a time-machine trip back ...


Paenibacillus dendritiformis

Can cannibalism fight infections?

Chemistry /

created Feb 02, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Whenever humans create a new antibiotic, deadly bacteria can counter it by turning into new, indestructible super-bugs. That's why bacterial infection is the number one killer in hospitals today. But new research ...


Cygnus X-1: Still a "Star"

Cygnus X-1: Still a 'Star' After All Those Years

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Aug 28, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 4

Since its discovery 45 years ago, Cygnus X-1 has been one of the most intensively studied cosmic X-ray sources. About a decade after its discovery, Cygnus X-1 secured a place in the history of astronomy when ...


Living fossils hold record of 'supermassive' kick

Living fossils hold record of 'supermassive' kick

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jul 09, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 9

The tight cluster of stars surrounding a supermassive black hole after it has been violently kicked out of a galaxy represents a new kind of astronomical object and a fossil record of the kick.


Ultra-Powerful Laser Reproduces How Star's Jets Travel through Interstellar Space

Ultra-Powerful Laser Reproduces How Star's Jets Travel through Interstellar Space

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A multi-trillion-watt laser at the University of Rochester has simulated a stellar jet -- an outpouring of matter from a fledgling star -- with unprecedented realism.


Young stellar objects: The source of gas emission around Herbig Ae/Be stars

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 10, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

This week, Astronomy & Astrophysics is publishing new observations with AMBER/VLTI of the gas component in the vicinity of young stars. An international team of astronomers led by E. Tatulli (Grenoble, France) and S. Kra ...


Astrophysicists Move Closer to Understanding the Beauty Behind Stellar Jets

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Certain stars stream vast amounts of matter into space, creating some of the most beautiful objects in astronomers' telescopes. But while the astronomers can enjoy the beauty, they can't explain it. Adam ...


First laboratory experiment to accurately model stellar jets explains mysterious 'knots'

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Feb 09, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 5

Some of the most breathtaking objects in the cosmos are the jets of matter streaming out of stars, but astrophysicists have long been at a loss to explain how these jets achieve their varied shapes. Now, laboratory research ...



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