News tagged with internal organ
S.Korean, Russian scientists bid to clone mammoth
Russian and South Korean scientists have signed a deal on joint research intended to recreate a woolly mammoth, an animal which last walked the earth some 10,000 years ago.
Mar 13, 2012 |
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Scientists call for fundamental governance overhaul to ensure Earth's sustainability
Some 32 social scientists and researchers from around the world, including a Senior Sustainability Scholar at Arizona State University, have concluded that fundamental reforms of global environmental governance are needed ...
Mar 15, 2012 |
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Scientists uncork a potential secret of red wine's health benefits
Scientists from Scotland and Singapore have unraveled a mystery that has perplexed scientists since red wine was first discovered to have health benefits: how does resveratrol control inflammation? New research published ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jul 30, 2009 |
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Evidence 'steadily mounting' for cosmic life
Evidence is 'steadily mounting' that life on Earth began elsewhere in the Universe and was brought here by comets, according to a new paper by Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 03, 2010 |
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Scientists create super-strong collagen
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers has created the strongest form of collagen known to science, a stable alternative to human collagen that could one day be used to treat arthritis and ...
Jan 12, 2010 |
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Diode lights offer bright future for low energy
German scientists said Wednesday they had tweaked organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) -- the materials used in flat-screen TVs, laptop computer screens and mobile phone displays -- to become flexible, energy-efficient ...
May 13, 2009 |
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Mollusks taste memories to build shells (w/Video)
University of California, Berkeley, graduate student Alistair Boettiger has amassed a beautiful collection of seashells, but not by combing the beach. He created them in his computer.
Apr 02, 2009 |
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Latest imaging techniques look inside a python (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Denmark have used CT scans and MRIs to see inside a python after it has swallowed a rat whole.
Jul 05, 2010 |
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Researchers identify structure of circadian clock protein
(PhysOrg.com) -- Feeling jet-lagged? You may need your internal clock reset. New Cornell research has taken a major step toward treating jet lag and other more serious syndromes by advancing our understanding ...
Nov 15, 2011 |
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Global radio experts float new mobile phone standard
Global radio experts have approved radio standards that are to usher in a new mobile phone operating system to replace third generation or 3G technology, the International Telecommunication Union announced ...
Jan 20, 2012 |
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Royal head: Scientists identify murdered French king
He was one of France's most adored kings, a monarch known as "le bon roi Henri" (good king Henri), who promoted religious tolerance, was a hit with the ladies and was the first to dream of putting a chicken ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Dec 15, 2010 |
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Enigmatic sea urchin structure catalogued
A comprehensive investigation into the axial complex of sea urchins (Echinoidea), an internal structure with unknown function, has shown that within that group of marine invertebrates there exists a struct ...
Jun 09, 2009 |
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Developing countries may not benefit from adopting international treaties
A new study by an Oregon State University business professor has found that developing countries that adopt major international economic treaties do not necessarily gain more foreign direct investment.
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Sep 16, 2010 |
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Scalable amounts of liver and pancreas precursor cells created using new stem cell production method
Scientists in Canada have overcome a key research hurdle to developing regenerative treatments for diabetes and liver disease with a technique to produce medically useful amounts of endoderm cells from human pluripotent stem ...
Dec 02, 2011 |
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Causes found for stiff skin conditions
By studying the genetics of a rare inherited disorder called stiff skin syndrome, researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have learned more about scleroderma, a condition affecting about one in 5,000 ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 19, 2010 |
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