Sunday, April 19, 2009

Scientists Compete To Build Best Living Machine

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American scientist and entrepreneur Craig Venter Photo: REUTERS From The Telegraph: Scientists from around the world are to compete in a co...

Ocean Dead Zones Likely To Expand: Increasing Carbon Dioxide And Decreasing Oxygen Make It Harder For Deep-sea Animals To Breath

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Photo: A new study by marine chemists at MBARI suggests that deep-ocean animals such as this owlfish (Bathylagus milleri) may suffer as carb...

Jet Lag Caused By Out-Of-Synch Brain

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From Live Science: The droopy-eyed jet lag that comes after a cross-country plane trip could be caused by two groups of cells at the base of...

Titanium Reveals Explosive Origins Of The Solar System

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Photo: The same ratio of two varieties of titanium has been found in a range of meteorites, hinting that the cloud of gas and dust that for...
Saturday, April 18, 2009

Blind To Be Cured With Stem Cells

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From Times Online: BRITISH scientists have developed the world’s first stem cell therapy to cure the most common cause of blindness. Surgeon...

Why Leaves Turn Red

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From Live Science: Scientists have long wondered if the red color of fall leaves was more than just a sign of death. The process of turning ...

Do 'Vicious' Dogs Learn From Their Owners?

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From New Scientist: ARE you right to trust your instincts if you cross the street when you encounter a snarling pit bull with an equally for...

Newly Discovered Iron-Breathing Species Have Lived In Cold Isolation For Millions Of Years

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A cross-section of Blood Falls showing how micorbial communities survive. (Credit: Zina Deretsky / NSF) From Science Daily: ScienceDaily (Ap...

The Hunt For Another Earth Begins: Nasa's New Telescope Scours Space For Life-Supporting Planets

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The Kepler telescope pictures the eight-billion-year-old star cluster NGC 6791, 13,000 light years from Earth. It will focus on the 'Gol...

CO2, EPA, Politics, And All That

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From Watts Up With That?: In a stunning act of political kowtowing, the EPA caved to special interest groups and politics and declared CO2 a...

Video: How The International Space Station Was/Is Being Built

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WNU Editor: The following link shows an excellent flash video of how the International Space Station was built .... from start to where it w...

Revealed: Antarctic Ice Growing, Not Shrinking

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From The Australian: ICE is expanding in much of Antarctica, contrary to the widespread public belief that global warming is melting the con...
Friday, April 17, 2009

Key to Happiness: Location, Location, Location

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A San Diego sunset is not a cure for depression, but it can't hurt. Image credit: Dreamstime From Live Science: I am boarding a plane he...

RNA Used To Reprogram One Cell Type Into Another

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Rat neuron with a micropipette inserting mRNAs directly onto the cell. After laser photoporation the mRNA goes into the cell and the TIPeR-i...

Early Warning Clue For Dementia

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From BBC: Heightened activity in an area of the brain that deals with memory may give a subtle early warning of dementia decades later, UK r...

Is Fringe's Genetic Monster Possible?

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(Photograph by Craig Blankenhorn/FOX) From Popular Mechanics: In last night's episode of Fringe, "Unleashed," a genetically ge...

Pirate Bay Verdict Is Guilty -- News Updates And Commentaries

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The Pirate Bay Guilty; Jail for File-Sharing Foursome -- Wired News Four men connected to The Pirate Bay, the world's most notorious fil...

U.S. Astronauts Might Hitch Rides on Chinese Spacecraft

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An artist's depiction of China's Shenzhou manned spacecraft in space. Credit: Simon Zajc From Space.com: Once NASA's space shutt...

Capturing The Quake: Fascinating satellite image Which Reveals How The Earth Moved In Italy Tragedy

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Pictured: An 'interferogram' shows the Earth's deformation pattern over the L'Aquila area in central Italy following the dev...

Archaeologists Discover Temple That Sheds Light On So-called Dark Age

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TAP excavations on the Tayinat Citadel. (Credit: Tim Harrison) From Science Daily: ScienceDaily (Apr. 16, 2009) — The discovery of a remarka...