Archive for the ‘human’ Category
Sunday, January 20th, 2008
One of the most significant questions facing marine ecologists today, is just how much of an impact global variations in the environment are having on the dispersal of larval and juvenile marine species from open oceans to coral reefs. Previously, tracking how fish larvae migrate was done through direct observation ...
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Friday, January 11th, 2008
NASA will point a power-packed $8.7 million University of Colorado at Boulder space instrument at some of the last unexplored terrain in the inner solar system when the MESSENGER spacecraft whips within 125 miles of Mercury's surface Jan. 14 at a mind-boggling 141,000 miles per hour.
Launched in August 2004, MESSENGER ...
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Artist depiction of the white dwarf in the AE Aquarii system Image right: The white dwarf in the AE Aquarii system is the first star of its type known to give off pulsar-like pulsations that are powered by its rotation and particle acceleration. (Credit: Casey Reed)
New observations from Suzaku, a ...
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
The crystal structure of an RNA molecule bound to a protein was used by Purdue and University of Texas at Austin researchers to study a stage of evolution. (Credit: Image courtesy of Barbara Golden, Purdue University Department of Biochemistry)
The crystal structure of a molecule from a primitive fungus has served ...
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
Scan of placoderm eye casing. The arrangement of muscles and nerves supporting the eyeball in placoderms provides evidence of an "intermediate stage" between the evolution of jawless and jawed vertebrates. (Credit: Image courtesy of Australian National University)
Ancient armoured fish fossils from Australia present some of the first definite fossil evidence ...
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
Barry Dickson, director of the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Austria, and his group are interested in the genetic basis of innate behaviour. They focus on the reproductive behaviour of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Two years ago, the team was able to identify the fruitless gene as ...
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Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
The data are in. Divorce is bad for the environment. A novel study that links divorce with the environment shows a global trend of soaring divorce rates has created more households with fewer people, has taken up more space and has gobbled up more energy and water. A statistical ...
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Saturday, December 1st, 2007
A group of Purdue University researchers has captured a key step in the metabolic process that allows materials, such as nutrients and drug treatments, to move in and out of cells.
A research team led by Jue Chen, an associate professor of biological sciences, obtained a snapshot of the tiny protein ...
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
For most people, and especially women, hair is their crowning glory that defines a significant part of their appearance and personal style. Yet, despite its delicate composition, hair is routinely subjected to significant damage from styling products, hair dyes, straightening or waving procedures and even sun exposure. Over time, hair ...
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
The earliest known use of cacao––the source of our modern day chocolate––has been pushed back more than 500 years, to somewhere between 1400 and 1100 B.C.E., thanks to new chemical analyses of residues extracted from pottery excavated at an archaeological site at Puerto Escondido in Honduras. The new evidence also ...
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