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Single gene may cause curly hair

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in Australia have identified a single gene that strongly influences whether you have curly or straight hair.

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (9) | comments 0 weblog




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Meteorites reveal another way to make life's components

(PhysOrg.com) -- Creating some of life's building blocks in space may be a bit like making a sandwich – you can make them cold or hot, according to new NASA research. This evidence that there is more ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 09, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Diamond light, brighter than the sun

It’s the size of five football pitches and generates light 10 billion times brighter than the sun. As the Diamond Light Source celebrates its tenth anniversary this year, Penny Bailey visits one of the ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (13) | comments 18 | with audio podcast

Decades later, a Cold War secret is revealed

For more than a decade they toiled in the strange, boxy-looking building on the hill above the municipal airport, the building with no windows (except in the cafeteria), the building filled with secrets.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 25, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 11

Dashing through the snow, in a one-truck radar dish

SCHUSS. The term for a straight, downhill ski run. In the land of the Greatest Snow on Earth--Utah--SCHUSS is also the moniker for storm-chasing, Old Man Winter-style.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Going with the flow: Biomimetic pressure sensors help guide oceangoing vessels

Since the 1970s, when early autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) were developed at MIT, Institute scientists have tackled various barriers to robots that can travel autonomously in the deep ocean. This fo ...

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Wal-Mart to localize offers for Facebook fans

(AP) -- Just in time for the crucial winter holidays, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. aims to recreate the feel of a local store for its more than 9 million Facebook fans.

Technology / Internet

created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

New research promises better collection of prostate cancer cells

At the Oct. 2-6 microTAS 2011 conference, the premier international event for reporting research in microfluidics, nanotechnology and detection technologies for life science and chemistry, University of Cincinnati ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Sep 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Grandparents with webcam become new online stars

(AP) -- It slowly began to dawn on Esther and Bruce Huffman that perhaps they were being filmed.

Technology / Internet

created Sep 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

As water becomes more precious, more drinking water will come from treated sewage

The island nation of Singapore is aggressively promoting a solution to the water scarcity that vexes countries worldwide: recycling toilet water to drink.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 6

Review: iRobot's smart mop could use some muscle

The engineers at iRobot Corp. continue to fill the world with wondrous robots, the latest being a compact floor-washing machine called the Scooba 230.

Electronics / Robotics

created Mar 31, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 6


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