Archive: 07/10/2008
River damming leads to dramatic decline in native fish numbers
Damming of the Colorado River over the last century, alongside introduction of game fish species, has led to an extensive decline in numbers of native fish whilst introduced species have flourished. Scientists ...
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New nanotech research to enhance future digital imaging
A team of researchers from Northeastern’s Electronic Materials Research Institute has published research that has resulted in a new breakthrough in the field of nanophotonics, the study of light at the nanoscale level.
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Touching research: To improve robots, researcher eyes jellyfish
(PhysOrg.com) -- Biology professor Joseph Ayers is expanding his research on animals’ nervous systems that produced the RoboLobster and RoboLamprey to include a study on tactile sensory perception in jellyfish ...
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Scientists Discover Which Waters Egg-Laying Mosquitoes Like Best
Scientists at Tulane and North Carolina State universities have identified the chemical cues in water that entice yellow fever mosquitoes to lay their eggs. The study is the first to isolate the compounds that the finicky ...
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Geologists Discover Magma and Carbon Dioxide Combine to Make 'Soda-Pop' Eruption
This discovery overturns a longtime belief by geologists, who thought that carbon dioxide was incapable of dissolving in magma, said Calvin Barnes, professor of geosciences and lead investigator.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
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Shells - a unique climate archive on the ocean floor
Most people who find a seashell during their summer holiday on the coast will probably not be aware that they have found a unique record of the climate. For Professor Bernd Schöne, however, these hard calcium shells provide ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jul 10, 2008 |
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Even fruit flies have an orientation memory: Recall tested in a virtual space
In order to cope with their environment, animals must be able to remember the location of their destination in situations in which they temporarily lose sight of it. This ability, known as orientation memory, is found in ...
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Researchers hack final part of the immune system code
A group of researchers from the University of Copenhagen and the Biocentre at the Technical University of Denmark have managed to decipher the final part of the immune system’s key codes.
Biology /
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Multitasking nanotechnology
Confocal microscope image of a self-assembled monolayer of a polychlorotriphenyl methyl radical patterned on a quartz surface. This multifunctional molecule behaves as an electroactive switch with optical and magnetic response.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 10, 2008 |
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Discovery of the source of the most common meteorites
Astronomy & Astrophysics is publishing the first discovery by T. Mothé-Diniz (Brazil) and D. Nesvorný (USA) of asteroids with a spectrum similar to that of ordinary chondrites, the meteoritic material that m ...
Jul 10, 2008 |
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Scientists generate the most precise map of genetic recombination ever
Genetic recombination, the process by which sexually reproducing organisms shuffle their genetic material when producing germ cells, leads to offspring with a new genetic make-up and influences the course of evolution.
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Sewing DNA thread with lasers, hooks and microbobbins
(PhysOrg.com) -- Japanese scientists have made a micro-sized sewing machine to sew long threads of DNA into shape. The work published in the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Lab on a Chip demonstrates a uniq ...
Jul 10, 2008 |
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Prostate cancer vaccines more effective with hormone therapy
Among patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer, the addition of hormone therapy following vaccine treatment improved overall survival compared with either treatment alone or when the vaccine followed hormone treatment, ...
Jul 10, 2008 |
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Revolutionary chefs? Not likely, shows physics research
However much the likes of Jamie Oliver or Gordon Ramsay might want to shake up our diets, culinary evolution dictates that our cultural cuisines remain little changed as generations move on, shows new research, published ...
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