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Hairs on bat wings aid flight › News in Science
Hairs on bat wings aid flight Related Stories Hairy tale Treating bats with a depilatory cream has lead to the discovery that the microscopic hairs on their wings are crucial for flight...
National Academy of Sciences D'Angelo University of Maryland University of Maryland
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When commerce rules the roost
Awareness about genetic testing to know if a woman with a family history of breast cancer and ovarian cancer carries certain deleterious mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes has surely increased...
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Stress Makes You Not Hot
Loading Slideshow Fuels Cancer In Animal Studies A recent animal study conducted by Wake Forest University researchers showed that a...
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2013/05/22 18:17
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Time for greens to embrace nukes
For too long, many environmentalists have been ambivalent about nuclear energy. It conjures fears: meltdowns, cancers, Chernobyl, Fukushima, overtones of nuclear bombs. Yet, we also know that nuclear...
2013/05/22 17:52
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Deforestation dries up dams threatening hydropower
Deforestation may lead to electricity shortages in tropical rainforests For example, if deforestation continues, one of the world's largest dam projects in Brazil will deliver around a third less...
Amazon National Academy of Sciences SciDev.Net
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2013/05/22 14:45
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Vitamin C can kill drug-resistant TB, researchers...
The study was published today in the online journal Nature Communications. TB is caused by infection with the bacterium M. tuberculosis. In 2011, TB sickened some 8.7 million people and took some 1.4...
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Minus environment, patterns still emerge: Computa...
The Rice lab of computer scientist Luay Nakhleh reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that when environmental factors are eliminated from an evolutionary model, mutations and...
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2013/05/22 14:21
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Chamomile tea may help fight cancer?
One good reason to brew a cup of chamomile tea: researchers say it may help fight cancer. Researchers from Ohio State University in the US say that chamomile tea contains a chemical called apigenin,...
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2013/05/22 13:41
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Time to Expose Science’s
Time to Expose Science’s "Dirty Little Secret" By Jeff Tamblyn - What the public doesn't know about science might actually be hurting them - and hurting science as well. London, England - infoZine -...
University of Nottingham University of Nottingham London National Academy of Sciences
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2013/05/22 11:28
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Why penguins lost their wings › News in Science
Why penguins lost their wings Related Stories Talent trade Penguins lost their ability to fly millions of years ago, and now a new study explains why - the birds became lean and mean diving...
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National Academy of Sciences Aberdeen University Aberdeen University university of Missouri Kyle Elliott
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Scavenger cells help limbs to regrow › News in Sc...
Scavenger cells help limbs to regrow Related Stories Limb regrowth An immune system cell that helps limbs regrow in salamanders brings hope that we may eventually be able to mimic the animal's...
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James Godwin National Academy of Sciences Joe Armao Monash University Monash University
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2013/05/22 10:31
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Search and Rescue Robots Could Be Modeled On Ants
While ants can spoil a picnic, and fire ants are despised for their painful bites, the tiny creatures are masters at tunneling, and this expertise could be put to good use. Researchers are now looking...
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National Academy of Sciences Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology National Science Foundation School of Physics
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2013/05/22 09:08
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Emory University researchers identify a protein t...
Researchers at Emory University have identified a protein that stimulates a pair of "orphan receptors" found in the brain, solving a long-standing biological puzzle and possibly leading to future...
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2013/05/22 05:51
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Walter E. Williams: We are the idiots
Henry Miller, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and Gregory Conko, senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, in their 2012 Forbes article “Rachel Carson’s Deadly Fantasies,” wrote...
Paul Ehrlich Rachel Carson Henry Miller Hoover Institution Competitive Enterprise Institute
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2013/05/21 22:31
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Woolly Mammoth Extinct Due To Meteorite Impact, C...
We humans have often blamed ourselves for the extinction of the woolly mammoth, but a new study from a large team of international researchers has found evidence of a large meteorite breaking apart in...
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Cincinnati National Academy of Sciences University of Cincinnati University of Cincinnati
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2013/05/21 21:28
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Study: Vitamin B May Slow Alzheimer's
... – A study edited by Washington University’s Marcus Raichle found that daily vitamins may be the key to stunting Alzheimer’s. New research shows that taking vitamins B6 and B12 with folic acid...
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2013/05/21 19:42
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New method for tailoring optical processors
Rice's team used the method to create an optical device in which incoming light could be directly controlled with light via a process known as "four-wave mixing." Four-wave mixing has been widely...
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National Academy of Sciences Rice University
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2013/05/21 17:42
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A tiny programmable fly's eye
This work has been published online on 20 May 2013 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. While consumer cameras are inspired from the single-lens mammalian eye, most animal species...
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Cancer radiation therapy if given in evening may ...
Cancer radiation therapy if given in evening may minimize hair loss Washington, May 21 : Researchers who discovered that mouse hair has a circadian clock - a 24-hour cycle of growth followed by...
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University of California Irvine Salk Institute National Academy of Sciences University of Southern California Cheng-Ming Chuong
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2013/05/21 15:42
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Soft matter offers new ways to study how material...
The doughnut-shaped droplets, a shape known as toroidal, are formed from two dissimilar liquids using a simple rotating stage and an injection needle. About a millimeter in overall size, the droplets...
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