Chemists have come remarkably close to mimicking a type of protein previously thought impossible to imitate. The long-term application of this work could be in the development of new types of glucose sensors for diabetics, ...
Oct 26, 2007
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The International Ice Charting Working Group predicts more marine transportation in the Arctic as sea ice continues to diminish and warns of "significant hazards to navigation," according to a statement released yesterday.
Environment
Oct 26, 2007
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Researchers at The University of Manchester have developed high-tech battery-powered textile yarns that can be used to make clothing glow in the dark.
Engineering
Oct 26, 2007
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By analyzing 100 million receipts from 1,000 Japanese am/pm convenience stores, researchers have discovered a strong economic inequality among shoppers. Among their findings is that the top 25% and 2% of the customers in ...
Mars, like Earth, is a climate-fickle water planet. The main difference, of course, is that water on the frigid Red Planet is rarely liquid, preferring to spend almost all of its time traveling the world as a gas or churning ...
Space Exploration
Oct 26, 2007
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Agricultural soil erosion is not a source of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, according to research published online today (October 25) in the journal Science. The study was carried out by an international team of researchers ...
Environment
Oct 26, 2007
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University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) researchers have discovered a key cell-signaling pathway that regulates cell progression and switches on front-to-back body patterning in tadpoles.
Oct 26, 2007
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Ronald Reuther, a zoologist who helped raise the first gorilla to use human sign language, has died in California at the age of 77.
Oct 26, 2007
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Archaeologists have found the foundations of medieval buildings near the Royal Palace in Stockholm, dating from the city's early years.
Archaeology
Oct 26, 2007
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Mankind’s closest living relatives – the world’s apes, monkeys, lemurs and other primates – are under unprecedented threat from destruction of tropical forests, illegal wildlife trade and commercial bushmeat hunting, ...
Oct 26, 2007
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