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Kepler finds first earth-size planets beyond our solar system

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Kepler mission has discovered the first Earth-size planets orbiting a sun-like star outside our solar system. The planets, called Kepler-20e and Kepler-20f, are too close to their star ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (33) | comments 61 | with audio podcast

City lights could reveal E.T. civilization

In the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, astronomers have hunted for radio signals and ultra-short laser pulses. In a new paper, Avi Loeb (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) and Edwin Turner ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 03, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (29) | comments 54 | with audio podcast

Newfound exoplanet may turn to dust

Researchers at MIT, NASA and elsewhere have detected a possible planet, some 1,500 light years away, that appears to be evaporating under the blistering heat of its parent star. The scientists infer that a ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Greenhouse effect could extend habitable zone

The distant region beyond Saturn is too cold for liquid water, a necessity for life as we know it. But new research indicates that rocky planets far from their parent star could generate enough heat to keep ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Aug 26, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 20 | with audio podcast

Planets around stars are the rule rather than the exception

There are more exoplanets further away from their parent stars than originally thought, according to new astrophysics research.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

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 ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jan 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Preschoolers' reading skills benefit from one modest change by teachers

A small change in how teachers and parents read aloud to preschoolers may provide a big boost to their reading skills later on, a new study found.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Apr 17, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Star blasts planet with X-rays

A nearby star is pummeling a companion planet with a barrage of X-rays a hundred thousand times more intense than the Earth receives from the Sun.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Sep 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Slaves or not, Babylonians were like us, says book

(PhysOrg.com) -- They got married, had children, made beer. Although they lived 3,500 years ago in Nippur, Babylonia, in many ways they seem like us. Whether they were also slaves is a hotly contested question ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (7) | comments 16

Sex-specific behaviors traced to hormone-controlled genes in the brain

Hormones shape our bodies, make us fertile, excite our most basic urges, and as scientists have known for years, they govern the behaviors that separate men from women. But how?

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Parents need an attitude adjustment to improve their children's homework motivation

Parents who want to improve their child's motivation to complete homework this school year need to change their own attitude and behavior, according to a new study by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Aug 31, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Where's the debris for transiting planets?

For many exoplanet systems that have been discovered by the radial velocity method, astronomers have found excess emission in the infrared portion of the spectrum. This has generally been interpreted as remnants ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Sep 06, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Study shows family solution to teen troubles

(PhysOrg.com) -- How do you keep at-risk teens off drugs and out of trouble? According to a new University of Georgia study, family can make a difference.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 10

New planet -- Kepler-21b -- discovered

(PhysOrg.com) -- The NASA Kepler Mission is designed to survey a portion of our region of the Milky Way Galaxy to discover Earth-size planets in or near the “habitable zone,” the region in a planetary ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (6) | comments 7

Sexy sons thanks to mom

It is not the superior genes of the father, but the mother's resource investment in the eggs that makes Zebra Finch males particularly attractive. A Swiss-Australian research team lead by evolutionary ecologists ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 29, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Parent

A parent is a mother or father; one who sires or gives birth to and/or nurtures and raises an offspring. The different roles of parents vary throughout the tree of life, and are especially complex in human culture.

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