(PhysOrg.com) -- Sooner or later, a cut to the skin or a broken bone will heal on its own; however, a scratch to a car's paint or a tear in the wing of an airplane will not. Materials with self-healing properties could help ...
Polymers
Jan 12, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In the tropical rainforests of West Texas, which looked more like Costa Rica some 225 million years before cattle ranches and cotton fields would dot the landscape, it hunted by chasing and wrapping its tooth-filled ...
Archaeology
Jan 12, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have turned up the first direct proof that "standard candles" used to illuminate the size of the universe, termed Cepheids, shrink in mass, making them not quite as standard as once thought. The ...
Astronomy
Jan 12, 2011
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Microsoft is fighting rival Apple's claim that it has dibs on the name "App Store," arguing the term is generic and can be used by any shop selling programs for gadgets such as smartphones.
Business
Jan 12, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In 2003, the year a complete draft of the human genome was released, the U.S. National Human Genome Research Institute launched the ENCODE project (ENCyclopedia of DNA Elements), to develop an encyclopedia ...
Biotechnology
Jan 12, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A study suggests the government should introduce a variable state pension age to acknowledge the wide variations in life expectancy across the UK. It also warns the current state pension system is unsustainable ...
Economics & Business
Jan 12, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Creatures that live in the muddy sediments of estuaries have given Aberdeen scientists new insights into how critical the relationship between organisms, and the structure of the habitat they live in, is ...
Ecology
Jan 12, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- SLAC researchers have taken a big step toward making useful catalysts easier to find or create—processes that have previously relied on trial and error. As explained yesterday in the Proceedings of the ...
Materials Science
Jan 12, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have uncovered a burgeoning galactic metropolis, the most distant known in the early universe. This ancient collection of galaxies presumably grew into a modern galaxy cluster similar to the massive ...
Astronomy
Jan 12, 2011
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Ten years after its debut as a geeky online encyclopedia, Wikipedia today wants to use its huge, growing popularity and spirit to spread knowledge across the world.
Internet
Jan 12, 2011
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