Archive: 04/08/2008
Scientists Construct Model of the World Wide Web
Although the Internet contains well over 100 million Web sites, two electrical engineers think they know what the traffic patterns of the entire Web look like.
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Cow stomach holds key to turning corn into biofuel
An enzyme from a microbe that lives inside a cow’s stomach is the key to turning corn plants into fuel, according to Michigan State University scientists.
Apr 08, 2008 |
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Rare seahorses spotted in Thames
British conservationists say rare short-snouted seahorses have been spotted in the River Thames.
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Apr 08, 2008 |
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Endangered gopher frogs bred in zoo
Tennessee's Memphis Zoo says it has successful started the first captive breeding program for endangered Mississippi gopher frogs.
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Apr 08, 2008 |
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Study: Food additives may lower IQ
A British study suggests artificial color added to food and beverages could lower a child's intelligence.
Apr 08, 2008 |
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Most powerful laser in the world fires up
The Texas Petawatt laser reached greater than one petawatt of laser power on Monday morning, March 31, making it the highest powered laser in the world, Todd Ditmire, a physicist at The University of Texas ...
Apr 08, 2008 |
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Double trouble with insecticide-resistant mosquitoes
Mosquitoes harbouring two insecticide-resistance genes have been found to survive unexpectedly well in an insecticide-free environment where carrying such genes would normally expected to be a burden. As outlined in research ...
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Apr 08, 2008 |
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Transmitting prion diseases in milk
Scrapie can be transmitted to lambs through milk, according to new research published in the online open access journal BMC Veterinary Research. The study provides important information on the transmission of this prion-associated ...
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Apr 08, 2008 |
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We're surrounded! House dust is a rich source of bacteria
If you’ve always suspected there are unknown things living in the dark and dusty corners of your home and office, we are now one step closer to cataloguing exactly what might be lurking in your indoor environment. Buildings ...
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Apr 08, 2008 |
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How fast can a rat smell?
Using an ethologically relevant task—exploratory sniffing—Daniel Wesson and colleagues from Boston University discovered that rats are able to discriminate odors much more quickly than previously thought, ...
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Apr 08, 2008 |
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Evolution on the table top
Evolution has taken another step away from being dismissed as “a theory” in the classroom, thanks to a new paper published this week in the online open-access journal PLoS Biology. The research article, by Brian Paegel and Ge ...
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