In the search for life beyond Earth, we should not expect to find life forms we're familiar with. Determining whether something completely alien is 'alive' could be a challenge, so a universal definition of life is needed. ...
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Feb 11, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- On the northeast coast of New Zealand's North Island, the Waipaoa River drains into the dazzling sea. Upriver, things are not so pretty. More than a century of land clearing for farming has created some of ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 11, 2010
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A team of chemists from the University of New Hampshire has synthesized the first-ever stable derivative of nonacene, creating a compound that holds significant promise in the manufacture of flexible organic electronics such ...
Materials Science
Feb 11, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A simple one-step process that produces both n-type and p-type doping of large-area graphene surfaces could facilitate use of the promising material for future electronic devices. The doping technique can ...
Nanomaterials
Feb 11, 2010
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(AP) -- Google Inc. has bought Aardvark, a free question-and-answer Web service.
Internet
Feb 11, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Most people wouldn't give a second thought to the inner workings of the fish eye. But research by University of Queensland scientists is unlocking the secrets hidden behind these fishy lenses.
Plants & Animals
Feb 11, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Rising temperatures on the Greenland ice sheet cause the creation of large surface lakes called supra-glacial lakes. Now a Penn State geographer will investigate why these lakes form and their implications.
Earth Sciences
Feb 11, 2010
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Students can learn some science concepts just as well from computers simulations as they do from direct observation, new research suggests.
Social Sciences
Feb 11, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Arizona astronomers have helped solve a mystery surrounding the birth of stars in galaxies that has long puzzled scientists. Their results are published in the Feb. 11 issue of Nature.
Astronomy
Feb 11, 2010
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Through Laboratory soil cleanup methods, residents of Bikini, Enjebi and Rongelap Islands - where nuclear tests were conducted on the atolls and in the ocean surrounding them in the 1950s - could have lower radioactive levels ...
General Physics
Feb 11, 2010
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