Numerous Neogene mammal fossils have been excavated in Hezheng area, Gansu province since the 1970s. Two fossil skulls of a bizarre bovid were discovered in recent years. In an article published in the journal of Science ...
Archaeology
Mar 31, 2014
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Flowering plants attract pollinating insects with scent from their flowers and bright colours. If they have become infested with herbivores like caterpillars, they attract beneficial insects like parasitic wasps with the ...
Ecology
Mar 31, 2014
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Fujitsu Laboratories has announced development of speech synthesis technology that can create a variety of high-quality synthetic voices in a short period of time, and that can convey information in a tone that is appropriate ...
Computer Sciences
Mar 31, 2014
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(Phys.org) —By tracing the evolutionary origin of a drug-like protein ring found in sunflowers, Australian and US scientists have discovered a diverse, 18-million-year-old group of buried proteins in daisy seeds.
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 31, 2014
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Israeli authorities on Monday unveiled 11 ancient burial boxes dating to around the time of Jesus, recovered by police during a midnight raid on antiquities dealers suspected of stealing the artifacts.
Archaeology
Mar 31, 2014
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Traffic jams aren't the only things that disappear when congestion charging programs are implemented. A Swedish researcher finds that opposition to these proposals appears to vanish once they take effect.
Engineering
Mar 31, 2014
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Scientists have developed a way of reading the universe's 'cosmic barometer' to learn more about ancient violent events in space.
Astronomy
Mar 31, 2014
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A new space odyssey began tonight as the six crew members of the new Hawai'i Space Exploration and Analog Simulation (HI-SEAS) mission entered their remote habitat on the first night of a four-month-long journey.
Space Exploration
Mar 31, 2014
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Research in Germany has produced the first demonstration of harmonic mode-locking in a self-mode-locked VECSEL. Such devices have the potential to provide pulsed sources across the achievable spectral range of VECSELs, without ...
General Physics
Mar 31, 2014
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Leading non-governmental organisations (NGOs) today issued a joint declaration in opposition to on-going construction of the Xayaburi dam on the Mekong River mainstem, and called on the Thai government to cancel the Power ...
Environment
Mar 31, 2014
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