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Thursday, November 27, 2008

Has Universal Ageing Mechanism Been Found?

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The ageing-related protein Sir1 was first found in yeast, and has now been found to serve a similar role in mice. This fluorescent micrograp...

Atlantic Hurricane Season Blows Away Records

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This September 2008 NASA GOES satellite image shows Hurricane Ike seen at 1225 GMT. The Atlantic hurricane season in 2008 is coming to a clo...
Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Some Cancers Disappear Untreated, Study Finds

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From The International Herald Tribune: Cancer researchers have known for years that it was possible in rare cases for some cancers to go awa...

Europe's 10bn-Euro Space Vision

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Ministers took the view that hi-tech investments would help the economy From The BBC: Member states of the European space agency (Esa) have ...

No Electricity? Island Now Energy Independent

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Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway (Photo from Simply Moving ) From MSNBC: Three-acre property boasts wind turbine, solar panels and Segways...

5 Surprising Turkey Facts

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Eastern wild turkeys. Credit: Maslowski/National Wild Turkey Federation From Live Science: Some 271 million turkeys will be raised in the Un...

Popular Science Looks At The Science Of Shooting Stars

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From Popular Science: In the first video we see footage of a fireball generated by a large meteor recently sighted careening over the skies ...

Plumes Spewing From Saturn Moon May Contain Water

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(Photo from NASA ) From AP News: WASHINGTON (AP) - Astronomers looking at the spectacular supersonic plumes of gas and dust shooting off one...

Global Warming Predictions Are Overestimated, Suggests Study On Black Carbon

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Savanna fires occur almost every year in northern Australia, leaving behind black carbon that remains in soil for thousands of years. (Credi...

Nanotech Clothing Fabric 'Never Gets Wet'

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The new fabric strongly repels water thanks to nanoscale filaments with a spiky structure (Image: University of Zurich/Wiley Vch) From New S...
Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Triple Helix: Designing A New Molecule of Life

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Peptide nucleic acid (gold) readily enters DNA's major groove to form triple-stranded and other structures with DNA, allowing it to modi...

Give Thanks? Science Supersized Your Turkey Dinner

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From Wired News: Your corn is sweeter, your potatoes are starchier and your turkey is much, much bigger than the foods that sat on your gran...

A Great Endeavour: Stunning Images As Astronauts Complete DIY Repairs On Space Station 225 Miles Above Earth

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All in a days work: Shane Kimbrough seen on during his space walk as he carries out construction and maintenance on the International Space ...

Planets, Crescent Moon To "Frown" On Skywatchers Dec. 1

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Venus and Jupiter appear close together in the sky over Pasadena, California, on February 12, 2008. The two bright planets will slowly conve...

Hubble Captures Outstanding Views Of Mammoth Stars

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From E! Science News: The image shows a pair of colossal stars, WR 25 and Tr16-244, located within the open cluster Trumpler 16. This cluste...
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Strangulation Of Spiral Galaxies: ‘Missing Link’ Discovered

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These images of three galaxies from the Galaxy Zoo (top) and STAGES surveys (bottom) show examples of how the newly discovered population of...

Origin of Sex Pinned Down

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From Live Science: We all came from hermaphrodites, organisms with both male and female reproductive organs. And though the origin traces ba...

Experts Question Use Of Space Station

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From The Philadelphia Inquirer: A new toilet. A second refrigerator. A new water recycling system. Philadelphia-born astronaut Christopher F...
Monday, November 24, 2008

Today's Unsettling Comparison To 'The Great Dying'

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From ABC News: 250 Million Years Ago, Rising Greenhouse Gas Levels Set Off Catastrophic Changes In 1980, scientists Luis Alvarez and his son...

IBM To Build “Thinking” Computers Modeled On The Brain

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From Discover: IBM has won a $4.9 million government grant from DARPA to begin the first phase of research on “cognitive computing”– essenti...
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