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Zoning the ocean may help endangered whales to recover

Biology / Ecology

created 13 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists in Scotland, Canada and the US have proposed a new method to identify priority areas for whale conservation. The team's findings, published in Animal Conservation, suggest that even small protected areas, identi ...


Handheld Touch Screen Device May Lead to Mobile Fingerprint ID

Handheld Touch Screen Device May Lead to Mobile Fingerprint ID

Technology / Engineering

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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Federal Bureau of Investigation Hostage Rescue Team had a problem -- they needed a small, portable tool to identify fingerprints and faces, but couldn't get anyone interested in building ...


Hubble Finds Smallest Kuiper Belt Object Ever Seen

Hubble Finds Smallest Kuiper Belt Object Ever Seen

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created 17 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (15) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered the smallest object ever seen in visible light in the Kuiper Belt, a vast ring of icy debris that is encircling the outer rim of the solar system ...


Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Resumes Observations

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created 18 hours ago | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers are receiving new science data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter after the spacecraft's six science instruments resumed observations today.


Fault weaknesses, the center cannot hold for some geologic faults

Fault weaknesses, the center cannot hold for some geologic faults

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created 19 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Some geologic faults that appear strong and stable, slip and slide like weak faults. Now an international team of researchers has laboratory evidence showing why some faults that "should not" slip are weaker ...


Lung cancer and melanoma laid bare: First comprehensive analysis of two cancer genomes

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created 19 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Research teams led by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute announce the first comprehensive analyses of cancer genomes. All cancers are caused by mutations in the DNA of cancer cells which are acquired during a person's lifetime. ...


Arctic ice

Study: Earth's polar ice sheets vulnerable to even moderate global warming

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created 19 hours ago | popularity 2.8 / 5 (26) | comments 7

A new analysis of the geological record of the Earth's sea level, carried out by scientists at Princeton and Harvard universities and published in the Dec. 16 issue of Nature, employs a novel statistical approa ...


Scientists use DNA sequencing to attack lung cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created 20 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Aided by next-generation DNA sequencing technology, an international team of researchers has gained insights into how more than 60 carcinogens associated with cigarette smoke bind to and chemically modify human DNA, ultimately ...


TGen analysis identifies biomarkers for diabetic kidney failure

Medicine & Health / Research

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Researchers using a DNA analysis tool developed by the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and UCLA have identified genetic markers that could help treat chronic kidney disease among diabetics.


World's rarest gorilla ready for its close-up

World's rarest gorilla ready for its close-up (w/ Video)

Biology / Plants & Animals

created 20 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

The world's rarest -- and most camera shy -- great ape has finally been captured on professional video on a forested mountain in Cameroon, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society and Germany's NDR Naturfilm.



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