Proving an aspect of the AB effect: when Newton's Third Law doesn't work
An action doesn’t always result in a reaction.
04/12/2007
Cosmopolitan microbes -- hitchhikers on Darwin's dust
Scientists have analysed aerial dust samples collected by Charles Darwin and confirmed that microbes can travel across continents without the need for planes or trains - rather bacteria and fungi hitch-hike by attaching to ...
Dec 4, 2007
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QUT researcher eyes off a biometric future
It is not science fiction to think that our eyes could very soon be the key to unlocking our homes, accessing our bank accounts and logging on to our computers, according to Queensland University of Technology researcher ...
Engineering
Dec 4, 2007
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Neanderthal bearing teeth
An international European research collaboration led by scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology reports evidence for a rapid developmental pattern in a 100,000 year old Belgian Neanderthal (Homo ...
Archaeology
Dec 4, 2007
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Google Plans 2008 Launch of Enhanced Web Hosting
Google plans to launch Google Sites in 2008. The initial plan is to enhance Google Apps and Google Page Creator features by using JotSpot for collaboration tools. The new enhanced features may set up a possible rivalry between ...
Feeding cattle byproduct of ethanol production causes E. coli 0157 to spike
Ethanol plants and livestock producers have created a symbiotic relationship. Cattle producers feed their livestock distiller's grains, a byproduct of the ethanol distilling process, giving ethanol producers have an added ...
Dec 4, 2007
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A gene implicated in human language affects song learning in songbirds
Do special “human” genes provide the biological substrate for uniquely human traits, like language" Genetic aberrations of the human FoxP2 gene impair speech production and comprehension, yet the relative contributions ...
Dec 4, 2007
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Matrimony inhibits Polo kinase
Suspended animation is something we only associate with Sci Fi programs, but something remarkably similar actually occurs in unfertilized egg cells, in the ovaries of animals as different as humans and fruit flies. In an ...
Dec 4, 2007
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