Scientists investigating an important DNA-repair enzyme now have a better picture of the final steps of a process that glues together, or ligates, the ends of DNA strands to restore the double helix.
Oct 19, 2006
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Astronomers have detected a new faint companion to the star HD 3651, already known to host a planet. This companion, a brown dwarf, is the faintest known companion of an exoplanet host star imaged directly and one of the ...
Astronomy
Oct 19, 2006
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Professor Andre Geim of the School of Physics and Astronomy has been awarded the 2007 Mott Medal and Prize by the Institute of Physics for his ground-breaking work. The research of Professor Geim, Dr Kostya Novoselov and ...
Nanomaterials
Oct 19, 2006
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Using fast digital imaging, scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam, Germany, together with researchers from College de France, have succeeded in developing two different protocols by ...
Nanomaterials
Oct 19, 2006
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Mars Express's OMEGA instrument has given planetary scientists outstanding new clues to help solve the mystery of Mars's so-called 'cryptic region'.
Space Exploration
Oct 19, 2006
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After eight years of study, NASA has approved the construction of an unmanned satellite that will scan the entire sky in infrared light to reveal nearby cool stars, planetary "construction zones" and the brightest galaxies ...
Astronomy
Oct 19, 2006
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Recent episodes of deadly heat in the United States and Europe, long dry spells across the U.S. West, and heavy bursts of rain and snow across much of North America and Eurasia hint at longer-term changes to come, according ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 19, 2006
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It's been more than 20 years since quantum cryptography systems have been developed, taking over communication security from classical cryptography systems--the kind that used extremely difficult mathematical equations. Now, ...
The discovery of a perfectly preserved fish fossil by Australian researchers has added further weight to the theory that ancient four-legged animals (tetrapods) may have first moved onto the land in Australia, rather than ...
Oct 19, 2006
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