Archive for the ‘scientists’ Category
Sunday, October 28th, 2007
A rare Amur leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis), one of only an estimated 30 left in the wild has been captured and health-checked by experts from a consortium of conservation organizations, before being released.
Representatives from a group of organizations, including the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Biology and Soils, the ...
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
Bacteria that cause tumours in plants modify plant genomes by skilfully exploiting the plants' first line of defence. Utilising the plant's own proteins, bacterial genes infiltrate first the nucleus then the plant genome, where they reprogramme the plant\'s metabolism to suit their own needs. This process was published in Science.
The ...
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Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
On the left is an Illustration of the displacement of hafnium atoms (white) in the structure of hafnium oxide to accommodate the presence of the self-trapped hole in the oxygen atom (red). On the right is the quantum mechanics view of the probability of finding a hole near certain atoms ...
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Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
A person is 100 times more likely to get cancer at age 65 than at age 35. But new research reported today in the journal "Nature Genetics" identifies naturally occurring processes that allow many genes to both slow aging and protect against cancer in the much-studied C. elegans roundworm.
Many of ...
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
How big is the universe? Could it be infinitely large? If the universe has an edge, what is beyond the edge? And if the universe had a beginning, what was going on before that?
Our experience of the everyday world does not prepare us to grasp the concept of an infinite ...
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
When the great American physicist and bongo-drums player, Richard Feynman, was asked to think of a single sentence that would convey the most important scientific knowledge we possess, he answered simply: "Everything is made of atoms."
Today we take this statement for granted. So much of modern science is built upon ...
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
An image of Saturn's rings taken by the Cassini spacecraft. Photo: NASA
They are visions of a unique family of worlds on the other side of the solar system: a moon with lakes of liquid methane: a tiny, rocky world with geysers of water that are being sprayed into space and ...
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
An influential inquiry into the future of Britain's abortion laws will begin today amid controversy over an apparent attempt by faith-based organisations to skew the balance of evidence presented to the committee of MPs.
At least eight submissions of written evidence have come from medical professionals who have not disclosed their ...
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