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Village bird study highlights loss of wildlife knowledge from one
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Feb 13, 2009 |
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Our ability to conserve and protect wildlife is at risk because we are unable to accurately gauge how our environment is changing over time, says new research out today in Conservation Letters.
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Safe journey for works of art
Dec 04, 2009 |
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Valuable paintings travel long distances when they are shipped from one place to another. To minimize damage, they are packed in special picture cases. In future, these will be equipped with sensors to detect ...
Secret behind the composition of the varnish on Stradivari violins revealed
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Dec 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Antonio Stradivari is the most famous instrument maker of all time. He was especially famous for his violins, which he produced in Cremona from about 1665 until his death in 1737. In particular, ...
Microsoft Store mirrors popular concept of its rival
Dec 04, 2009 |
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Blink an eye, and the Microsoft Store could be mistaken for an Apple Store.
Forest deal at Copenhagen must avoid creating 'carbon refugees'
Dec 03, 2009 |
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Forest dwellers must be included in the design of the upcoming forest deal at Copenhagen in order to avoid a humanitarian crisis, according to a scientist at the University of Leeds.
'Smell of old books' offers clues to help preserve them
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Dec 02, 2009 |
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Scientists may not be able to tell a good book by its cover, but they now can tell the condition of an old book by its smell. In a report in ACS' Analytical Chemistry, a semi-monthly journal, they describe develo ...
Chances of surviving cardiac arrest at home or work unchanged in 30 years
Dec 02, 2009 |
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The chance of surviving an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest has not improved since the 1950s, according to a report by the University of Michigan Health System.
Dating the Bronze Age
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Dec 02, 2009 |
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ANSTO (Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation) research has shown that an area of desert in north-western China was once a thriving Bronze Age manufacturing and agricultural site. The new findings ...
3 Questions: Suzanne Corkin on the world's most famous amnesic
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 01, 2009 |
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H.M., the well-known amnesic patient whose condition helped scientists understand memory and memory impairment, died a year ago at the age of 82. H.M. (whose full name, Henry Gustav Molaison, was disclosed ...
Traditional craft industry with a bright future
Dec 01, 2009 |
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Mary and Joseph, the angels, the manger -- at Christmas time, lots of people still decorate their homes with high-quality wooden figures depicting the nativity scene. Now, the wood carvers of South Tyrol are ...
NREL Breaks Down Walls for Biofuels
Nov 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and ethanol producers are racing to come up with ways to make ethanol from cellulosic biomass that are cheaper and easier to ...
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