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Good News In Our DNA: Defects You Can Fix With Vitamins And Minerals »
Posted by: 1 year, 5 months ago in Science & Technology
As DNA sequencing becomes cheaper, it will become common for people to have their complete genomes sequenced. Personal genomes will not only tell people about ...
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Spitzer Captures Stellar Coming Of Age In Our Galaxy »
Posted by: 1 year, 5 months ago in Science & Technology
More than 800,000 snapshots from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have been stitched together to create a new 'coming of age' portrait of stars ...
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Common Aquatic Animal's Genome Can Capture Foreign DNA »
Posted by: 1 year, 5 months ago in Science & Technology
Long viewed as straitlaced spinsters, sexless freshwater invertebrate animals known as bdelloid rotifers may actually be far more promiscuous than anyone had imagined: Scientists have
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Stonehenge Could Have Been Resting Place For Royalty »
Posted by: 1 year, 5 months ago in Science & Technology
Archaeologists at the University of Sheffield have revealed new radiocarbon dates of human cremation burials at Stonehenge, which indicate that the monument was used as ...
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Big Bangs: 'Stirring' Secrets Of Deadly Supervolcanoes Uncovered »
Posted by: 1 year, 5 months ago in Science & Technology
Researchers have simulated in the lab the process that can turn ordinary volcanic eruptions into so-called "supervolcanoes." Supervolcanoes are orders of magnitude greater than any ...
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Synthetic Copycat Of Living Cell Underway: Life, But Not As We Know It? »
Posted by: 1 year, 5 months ago in Science & Technology
Researchers have taken some important first steps to creating a synthetic copycat of a living cell. Scientists have used polymers -- long-chain molecules -- to construct capsule-like
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Large Hadron Collider Enables Hunt For 'God' Particle To Complete 'Theory Of Everything' »
Posted by: 1 year, 5 months ago in Science & Technology
When the world's most powerful subatomic particle collider begins gathering data this summer, it will be a major milestone for a number of University ...
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Strange Ring Found Circling Dead Star »
Posted by: 1 year, 5 months ago in Science & Technology
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has found a bizarre ring of material around the magnetic remains of a star that blasted to smithereens. The stellar ...
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DNA Clues To Reproductive Behavior »
Posted by: 1 year, 5 months ago in Science & Technology
A species of wild yeast goes through a cycle of sexual reproduction once in every 1,000 asexual generations, according to new research. The study ...
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Giant Flying Reptiles Preferred To Walk »
Posted by: 1 year, 5 months ago in Science & Technology
New research into gigantic flying reptiles has found they weren't all gull-like predators grabbing fish from the water but that some were strongly adapted ...
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Authentic Viking DNA Retrieved From 1,000-year-old Skeletons »
Posted by: 1 year, 5 months ago in Science & Technology
Although "Viking" literally means "pirate," recent research has indicated that the Vikings were also traders to the fishmongers of Europe. Stereotypically, these Norsemen are usually ...
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Nanotechnology Risks: How Buckyballs Hurt Cells »
Posted by: 1 year, 6 months ago in Science & Technology
A new study into the potential health hazards of the revolutionary nano-sized particles known as 'buckyballs' predicts that the molecules are easily absorbed into animal ...
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Microsoft sees Windows Mobile unit sales up 50 pct »
Posted by: 1 year, 6 months ago in Science & Technology
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp expects global unit sales of its Windows Mobile software for mobile phones to grow at least 50 percent per year in ...
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New Image-recognition Software Could Let Computers 'See' Like Humans Do »
Posted by: 1 year, 6 months ago in Science & Technology
It takes surprisingly few pixels of information to be able to identify the subject of an image, a team led by an MIT researcher has ...
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Big Earthquakes Spark Jolts Worldwide »
Posted by: 1 year, 6 months ago in Science & Technology
Until 1992, when California's magnitude-7.3 Landers earthquake set off small jolts as far away as Yellowstone National Park, scientists did not believe large ...
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