(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists from the Instituto Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of Texas has succeeded in identifying one of the most complex organic molecules yet found in ...
Jun 21, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Many animals possess some kind of magnetic sense, allowing them to navigate by using a magnetic field. The ability to detect a magnetic field, called magnetoreception, has been observed in ...
Jun 21, 2010
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BP revealed Monday it has so far spent two billion dollars on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, after an internal BP document suggested the gusher might be spewing far faster than initially feared.
Jun 21, 2010
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Taiwan's United Microelectronics Corp, the world's number two contract chip maker, and Japan's Elpida Memory said Monday they will develop cutting-edge 3D technologies together.
Jun 21, 2010
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(AP) -- The discovery of three dead Javan rhinos has intensified efforts to save one of the world's most endangered mammals from extinction, with an electric fence being built Monday around a new sanctuary ...
Jun 21, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Geneticists trying to find a link between the genes and traits such as height have until recently found genetic variants that account for only around 5% of the heritability of these traits. ...
Jun 21, 2010
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The completion of three pilot projects designed to determine how best to build an extremely detailed map of human genetic variation begins a new chapter in the international project called 1,000 Genomes, said the director ...
Jun 21, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Graphene is a relatively new material with outstanding electrical, chemical and mechanical properties that make it an attractive material for use as flexible conductors of the sort used in ...
Jun 21, 2010
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Name: Khoma. Looks like: A baby mammoth. Age: somewhere above 50,000 years.
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(AP) -- A British doctor who admitted shortening the lives of nearly 20 patients - including his own son - may yet face charges, British investigators said Saturday.
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(AP) -- Fast decisions on life-and-death cases are the bread and butter of hospital emergency rooms. Nowhere do doctors face greater pressures to overtest and overtreat.
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An Austrian archaeological team has used radar imaging to determine the extent of the ruins of the one time 3,500-year-old capital of Egypt's foreign occupiers, said the antiquities department Sunday.
Jun 21, 2010
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Despite sophisticated nutrient management of potato crops, quality and yield still see wide variability. Although nutrients are already well understood, the influence of other environmental factors remains understudied.
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