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Hair of Tasmanian Tiger Yields Genes of Extinct Species

Hair of Tasmanian Tiger Yields Genes of Extinct Species

Biology /

created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

All the genes that the exotic Tasmanian Tiger inherited only from its mother will be revealed by an international team of scientists in a research paper to be published on 13 January 2009 in the online edition ...





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GPS to track blue sheep and snow leopard

GPS to track blue sheep and snow leopard

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists hope to improve the survival odds of the endangered snow leopard in Nepal by venturing into the remote Himalayas to study its main prey, the Bharal or blue sheep.


INL scientist is harnessing the power of plasma

INL scientist is harnessing the power of plasma

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 5

Most schoolchildren learn that everything in the universe is a solid, a liquid or a gas. But those lessons miss the fourth and by far most common state of matter: plasma.


Now hear this: Scientists show how tiny cells deliver big sound

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Deep in the ear, 95 percent of the cells that shuttle sound to the brain are big, boisterous neurons that, to date, have explained most of what scientists know about how hearing works. Whether a rare, whisper-small second ...


Tiny Test Tube Experiment Shows Reaction Of Melting Materials at the Nano Scale (w/ Video)

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have conducted a basic chemistry experiment in what is perhaps the world's smallest test tube, measuring a thousandth the diameter of a human hair.


Stretching the Golgi: a link between form and function

Stretching the Golgi: a link between form and function

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (18) | comments 0

A research team at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine has provided a surprisingly simple explanation for the mechanism and features of the "Golgi apparatus" - a structure that has baffled ...


FBI delves into DMV photos in search for fugitives (AP)

FBI delves into DMV photos in search for fugitives

Technology / Hi Tech

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(AP) -- In its search for fugitives, the FBI has begun using facial-recognition technology on millions of motorists, comparing driver's license photos with pictures of convicts in a high-tech analysis of ...


New nanotech sensor developed with medical, chemistry applications

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers at Oregon State University and other institutions have developed a new "plasmonic nanorod metamaterial" using extraordinarily tiny rods of gold that will have important applications in medical, biological and ...


Researchers create smaller and more efficient nuclear battery

Researchers create smaller and more efficient nuclear battery

Technology / Energy

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (27) | comments 14

(PhysOrg.com) -- Batteries can power anything from small sensors to large systems. While scientists are finding ways to make them smaller but even more powerful, problems can arise when these batteries are ...


IBM Research Aims to Build Nanoscale DNA Sequencer (w/ Video)

IBM Research Aims to Build Nanoscale DNA Sequencer (w/ Video)

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (11) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- In an effort to build a nanoscale DNA sequencer, IBM scientists are drilling nano-sized holes in computer-like chips and passing DNA strands through them in order to read the information contained ...


First light for BOSS -- a new kind of search for dark energy

First light for BOSS -- a new kind of search for dark energy

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (15) | comments 4

BOSS, the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, is the most ambitious attempt yet to map the expansion history of the Universe using the technique known as baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO). A part of the ...



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