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Plants 'talk' to warn each other of threats »
Posted by: Progressive 6 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
Two decades after the Prince of Wales invited derision by saying that plants respond to human speech, a study has shown that their communication skills ...
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Pacific Garbage Patch Studied »
Posted by: Eagle_Eye 4 months, 3 weeks ago in News
Scientists shipped out from California this week on mission to study a man-made problem in the middle of the Pacific: a giant swath of open ...
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Laughing Gas: The Latest Threat to the Ozone Layer »
Posted by: Progressive 4 months ago in Science & Technology
Scientists are finding a new man-made threat to the ozone layer: nitrous oxide (N2O), otherwise known as laughing gas
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British scientists make giant leap in Alzheimer's fight that could spare 100,000 sufferers every year. »
Posted by: monicachenoa 3 months, 3 weeks ago in Health & Fitness
British scientists have made the biggest breakthrough for more than 15 years in the fight against Alzheimer's.
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Their landmark research could revolutionise the understanding ...Read (90) | Share | Discuss (1) | Read Full Story at dailymail.co.uk
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California Develops Earthquake Early-Warning System : NPR »
Posted by: The-Shark 2 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
Lives may be saved with an earthquake early-warning system — the kind that's already in place in Japan and Mexico. But here in the U ...
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Scientists chasing killer tornadoes across Midwest »
Posted by: JessicaLaurie 7 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
It sounds like something from the movie " Twister" -- teams of scientists in vans, armed with high-tech measuring equipment, barreling across the Oklahoma plains in search ...
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Scientists: Global warming has already changed oceans - Yahoo! News »
Posted by: splitrch 6 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
WASHINGTON — In Washington state , oysters in some areas haven' t reproduced for four years, and preliminary evidence suggests that the increasing acidity of the ocean ...
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Scientists now trying to outflank HIV/AIDS virus »
Posted by: suzanek 7 months, 1 week ago in Health & Fitness
Unsuccessful at developing vaccines that the cause the body's natural immune system to battle the virus, researchers are testing inserting a gene into the ...
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Mysteriously High Tides on East Coast Perplex Scientists »
Posted by: JessicaLaurie 4 months, 4 weeks ago in Science & Technology
From Maine to Florida, the Atlantic seaboard has experienced higher tides than expected this summer. At their peak in mid-June, the tides at some locations
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Study: Romantic Candlelit Dinners Could Cause Cancer »
Posted by: JessicaLaurie 4 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
There’s nothing that says romance like a candlelit dinner – but scientists say burning certain kinds of candles may actually be hazardous to your health.
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Black holes are cosmic factories for building galaxies »
Posted by: myfairlady 3 weeks, 5 days ago in Science & Technology
Black holes may act as cosmic factories for building galaxies, scientists
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Social Scientists Build Case for 'Survival of the Kindest' »
Posted by: myfairlady 2 weeks, 4 days ago in Science & Technology
Researchers are challenging long-held beliefs that human beings are wired to be selfish. In a wide range of studies, social scientists are amassing a growing ...
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The Moon Is Wet! »
Posted by: myfairlady 1 month, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
After several decades of controversy, scientists now know that over billions of years, water from who knows where--impacting comets or perhaps the solar wind--can collect ...
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Climate scientists once suspected global cooling »
Posted by: Temlakos 2 weeks, 5 days ago in News
Thirty-four years ago, the world's climate scientists once acknowledged the Little Ice Age (LIA) and feared a return of those conditions. In fact, authorities ...
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Scientists kill cancer cells with "trojan horse" »
Posted by: myfairlady 6 months ago in Science & Technology
Australian scientists have developed a "trojan horse" therapy to combat cancer, using a bacterially-derived nano cell to penetrate and disarm the cancer cell before a ...
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