Thursday, October 15, 2009

The Link Between Parkinson Disease And Farming

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From Live Science: Although genetics is very important in Parkinson disease (PD), many researchers believe that environmental exposures also...

Gallery: Let the X-Planes Begin

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From Autopia: Few aircraft are as storied as the experimental series known as the X-Planes. These flying laboratories date to the mid-1940s ...

Modern Man 'A Wimp', Says Anthropologist

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Neanderthal man, as reconstructed by French scientists. From The Independent: Many prehistoric Australian aboriginals could have outrun worl...

Marine Plant Life Holds The Secret To Preventing Global Warming

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Mangrove forests, salt marshes and seagrass beds, above, cover less than 1 per cent of the world's seabed, but lock away well over half ...

Gene Linked To Better And Faster Decision Making

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From The Telegraph: Decision-makers are born not made, say scientists, as they discover people inherit a decisive gene. The researchers foun...

Kellogg's Will Use Laser To Burn Logo On To Individual Corn Flakes To Stamp Out Fakes

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A proportion of Kellogg's flakes will be branded with the trademark using a laser From The Daily Mail: According to the advertising slog...

Dolphins, Sharks And Birds Team Up For One Of Nature's Most Spectacular Annual Feeding Frenzies

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Feeding frenzy: Up to 1,000 common dolphins arrive from the open ocean to drive sardines shoals towards the surface during the sardine run F...

Jupiter Moon’s Ocean Is Rich In Oxygen

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The strange striations on Europa's surface are thought to have been caused by tidal stresses from Jupiter as the ice cracks and warmer l...

Finger Points To New Da Vinci Art

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From BBC: A new Leonardo da Vinci portrait may have been discovered after a fingerprint found on it seemed similar to another discovered on ...
Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Bizarre Galaxy Is Result Of Pair Of Spiral Galaxies Smashing Together

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Not surprisingly, interacting galaxies have a dramatic effect on each other. Studies have revealed that as galaxies approach one another mas...

Flying Reptile May Have Snatched Dinosaurs In Midair

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The newly discovered remains of the flying reptile, now called Darwinopterus modularis, suggest the animals may have been an aerial predator...

The Real Impact of America's Oil Crisis -- An Interview

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Image: The book Power Trip, by Amanda Little From Time Magazine: Esoteric climate-science warnings about America's oil dependence can m...

Backslash: Web Creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee Apologises For HisStrokes

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From Times Online: A light has been shone on one of the great mysteries of the internet. What is the point of the two forward slashes that s...

Plumes Of Fire And Gas Erupting From The Sun Have Been Captured By Nasa Spacecraft

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From The Telegraph: Great balls of gas erupting from the Sun have been captured in rare footage by two Nasa spacecraft. Filmed over two days...

Astronomers Clash With US Air Force Over Laser Rules

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The Gemini North observatory in Hawaii fires a laser into the sky as part of its adaptive optics system (Image: Gemini Observatory) From New...

Extra-Powerful Military Sonar 'Is Killing Britain's Last Wild Dolphins'

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Naval exercises will threaten bottlenose dolphins in the Moray Firth (pictured), according to wildlife campaigners who say the animals will ...

Australian Plate: Cause Of Indonesian And Pacific Earthquakes?

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This graphic provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shows tsunami travel times following an earthquake with ...

Microsoft Security Holes Hit Record High

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From CBS: Software Maker Patches 34 Holes, Designating Most as "Critical". (AP) Microsoft Corp. issued a record number of securit...

Australia Fails To Plug Oil Leak

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From BBC: A second attempt to stop oil pouring into Australian waters after a rig accident in the Timor Sea has failed. It is almost two mon...

Fundamental Quantum Limit on Computing Speed of Any Information Processing System

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The Next Big Future: Physicists Lev Levitin and Tommaso Toffoli at Boston University in Massachusetts, have calculated a quantum speed limit...