Many researchers have tried to create a mathematical model of how cells pack together to form tissue, but most models have many different complicated factors, and no model is universal.
Mathematics
Jan 11, 2008
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NASA will return to Mercury for the first time in almost 33 years on Monday, Jan. 14, 2008, when the MESSENGER spacecraft makes its first flyby of the Sun’s closest neighbor, capturing images of large portions of the planet ...
Space Exploration
Jan 11, 2008
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Researchers have turned a stubborn alloy into a shape-shifting foam by just giving it a little breathing room.
Condensed Matter
Jan 11, 2008
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The experimental hutches at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory are well familiar with a macabre tide of materials brought in for close investigation. A recent tally includes ancient parchment texts, human brain ...
Archaeology
Jan 11, 2008
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If you're planning to ice skate on a local lake or river this winter, you may need to think twice, according to scientists John Magnuson, Olaf Jensen and Barbara Benson of the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Their research ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 11, 2008
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A giant cloud of hydrogen gas is speeding toward a collision with our Milky Way Galaxy, and when it hits -- in less than 40 million years -- it may set off a spectacular burst of stellar fireworks.
Astronomy
Jan 11, 2008
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The last fish you ate probably came from the Bering Sea. But during this century, the sea’s rich food web—stretching from Alaska to Russia—could fray as algae adapt to greenhouse conditions.
Environment
Jan 11, 2008
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Biologists have created baker's yeast capable of living to 800 in yeast years without apparent side effects.
Jan 11, 2008
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The American International Specialty Lines Insurance Company Inc. has agreed to pay $42.5 million to clean up contamination at four U.S. factory sites.
Environment
Jan 11, 2008
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An international collaboration of researchers led by Morten Ring Eskildsen, an assistant professor of physics at the University of Notre Dame, has discovered an altogether new way in which superconducting electrons can interact ...
Superconductivity
Jan 11, 2008
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