News tagged with size
Particle physics: 'Honey, I shrunk the proton'
Scientists lobbed a bombshell into the world of sub-atomic theory on Wednesday by reporting that a primary building block of the visible Universe, the proton, is smaller than previously thought.
Jul 07, 2010 |
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Are brains shrinking to make us smarter?
Human brains have shrunk over the past 30,000 years, puzzling scientists who argue it is not a sign we are growing dumber but that evolution is making the key motor leaner and more efficient.
Feb 06, 2011 |
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Bigger not necessarily better, when it comes to brains
(PhysOrg.com) -- Tiny insects could be as intelligent as much bigger animals, despite only having a brain the size of a pinhead, say scientists at Queen Mary, University of London.
Nov 17, 2009 |
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Claim: White flower has world's longest genome
An ordinary-looking white flower from Japan may carry something quite extraordinary within its pale petals - the longest genome ever discovered.
Oct 08, 2010 |
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Climate change downsizing fauna, flora: study
Climate change is reducing the body size of many animal and plant species, including some which supply vital nutrition for more than a billion people already living near hunger's threshold, according to a ...
Oct 16, 2011 |
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New analysis shows 'hobbits' couldn't hustle
A detailed analysis of the feet of Homo floresiensis—the miniature hominins who lived on a remote island in eastern Indonesia until 18,000 years ago -- may help settle a question hotly debated among paleontologists: how si ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 06, 2009 |
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Hacking code of leaf vein architecture solves mysteries, allows predictions of past climate
(Phys.org) -- UCLA life scientists have discovered new laws that determine the construction of leaf vein systems as leaves grow and evolve. These easy-to-apply mathematical rules can now be used to better ...
May 23, 2012 |
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Dogs can tell canine size through growls
(PhysOrg.com) -- New research has demonstrated that dogs can tell the size of another dog by listening to its growls. They are able to do this so accurately they can match the growl to a photograph of a dog ...
Dec 17, 2010 |
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Shear brain power - sheep smarter than previously believed
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Cambridge have discovered that sheep are more intelligent than previously believed.
Feb 21, 2011 |
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Why certain fishes went extinct 65 million years ago
Large size and a fast bite spelled doom for bony fishes during the last mass extinction 65 million years ago, according to a new study to be published March 31, 2009, in the Proceedings of the National Ac ...
Mar 26, 2009 |
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Australopithecus Sediba could be direct ancestor of Homo
(PhysOrg.com) -- Last year Lee Berger from the University of the Witwatersrand and his team discovered the skeletal remains of two specimens they determined to be a new species of human called Australopithecus se ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 20, 2011 |
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Buried Coins Key to Roman Population Mystery?
(PhysOrg.com) -- The first century BC in Italy was culturally a brilliant age, unequaled by any other period in Roman history. It was a time of Cicero, Caesar, Vergil, Horace and many other major literary ...
Oct 05, 2009 |
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Think you'll ace that test? Think again, then start studying
for instance, if you study more, you learn more. We are also constantly making judgments about particular instances of learning and remembering—I'll never forget this party! That was easy to understand. I'll ace it on ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 22, 2011 |
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Mayo researchers: Dramatic outcomes in prostate cancer study
Two Mayo Clinic patients whose prostate cancer had been considered inoperable are now cancer free thanks in part to an experimental drug therapy that was used in combination with standardized hormone treatment and radiation ...
Jun 19, 2009 |
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Is the Hobbit's brain unfeasibly small?
(PhysOrg.com) -- The commonly held assumption that as primates evolved, their brains always tended to get bigger has been challenged by a team of scientists at Cambridge and Durham. Their work helps solve ...
Jan 27, 2010 |
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