News tagged with makeup
Research team finds new explanation for Cambrian explosion
(PhysOrg.com) -- For hundreds of years, researchers from many branches of science have sought to explain the veritable explosion in diversity in animal organisms that started approximately 541 million years ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 29, 2011 |
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Rover Gives NASA an 'Opportunity' to View Interior of Mars
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars exploration rover Opportunity is allowing scientists to get a glimpse deep inside Mars.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 21, 2010 |
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Robots learn to share, validating Hamilton's rule (w/ video)
Using simple robots to simulate genetic evolution over hundreds of generations, Swiss scientists provide quantitative proof of kin selection and shed light on one of the most enduring puzzles in biology: Why ...
May 03, 2011 |
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Acting selfish? Blame your mother
(PhysOrg.com) -- The fact that our female ancestors dispersed more than our male ancestors can lead to conflicts within the brain that influence our social behaviour, new research reveals.
Sep 02, 2010 |
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Scientists find a key to maintaining our DNA
DNA contains all of the genetic instructions that make us who we are, and maintaining the integrity of our DNA over the course of a lifetime is a critical, yet complex part of the aging process. In an important, albeit early ...
Mar 18, 2011 |
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Old star, new trick
The Big Bang produced lots of hydrogen and helium and a smidgen of lithium. All heavier elements found on the periodic table have been produced by stars over the last 13.7 billion years. Astronomers analyze starlight to determine ...
Apr 30, 2012 |
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DNA evidence tells 'global story' of human history
In recent years, DNA evidence has added important new tools for scientists studying the human past. Now, a collection of reviews published by Cell Press in a special issue of Current Biology published online on February 22nd o ...
Feb 22, 2010 |
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Rapid, Inexpensive DNA Sequencing Moves Closer to Reality
As efforts such as The Cancer Genome Atlas and others generate vast quantities of information about the genetic makeup of different types of cancer, it is becoming increasingly clear that such information has great potential ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 19, 2010 |
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Superhot Planet Likely Possesses Comet-like Tail
(PhysOrg.com) -- As if the debate over what is and what is not a planet hasn't gotten confusing enough, Hubble Space Telescope astronomers have now confirmed the existence of a tortured, baked object that ...
Jul 15, 2010 |
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Endeavour crater provides possible evidence of past water
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Mars rover Opportunity is a senior citizen, but still spry, and as it peers over the rim of the giant impact crater called Endeavour, it's embarking on what could be called a new mission, ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 04, 2011 |
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Good parents are predictable -- at least when it comes to corn
In order to breed new varieties of corn with a higher yield faster than ever before, researchers at the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart, Germany, and other institutions are relying on a trick: early selection of the ...
Jan 15, 2012 |
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Could the Taste of Vodka be Related to Molecular Makeup?
(PhysOrg.com) -- When we think of taste, we don't normally think about how something's molecular makeup influences our tongues. A group of scientists at the University of Cincinnati and Moscow State University ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
May 28, 2010 |
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Bacteria have evolved a unique chemical mechanism to become antibiotic-resistant
For the first time, scientists have been able to paint a detailed chemical picture of how a particular strain of bacteria has evolved to become resistant to antibiotics. The research is a key step toward designing ...
Apr 28, 2011 |
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Malarial mosquitoes are evolving into new species, say researchers
Two strains of the type of mosquito responsible for the majority of malaria transmission in Africa have evolved such substantial genetic differences that they are becoming different species, according to researchers ...
Oct 21, 2010 |
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DNA as invisible ink can reversibly hide patterns
(PhysOrg.com) -- While most people know of DNA as the building blocks of life, these large molecules also have potential applications in areas such as biosensing, nanoparticle assembly, and building supramolecular ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jan 23, 2012 |
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