A few years ago a University of Missouri-Columbia professor and his student had a theory, and a few weeks ago a physicist in California proved it. The unusual part is that neither person knew about the work of the other. ...
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The Perseus spiral arm, the nearest spiral arm in the Milky Way outside the Sun's orbit, lies only half as far from Earth as some previous results had suggested. An international team of astronomers including scientists from ...
Dec 16, 2005
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Scientific insights come at the darnedest times. Animal behaviorist Sean O'Donnell was having an afternoon cup of coffee when a giant earthworm exploded out of the leaf litter covering the jungle floor in an Ecuadorean nature ...
Dec 16, 2005
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The genetic determination of human skin color is one of biology's enduring mysteries. With help from a common aquarium pet and a recently released online database of human genetic variation, a collaborative team of Penn State ...
Dec 16, 2005
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Russia and Indonesia signed a memorandum Wednesday on the launch of a communications satellite at the end of the Russia Hi-Tech 2005 exposition in Malaysia's capital, reports RIA Novosti.
Dec 16, 2005
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University of the Mediterranean scientists have found evidence of typhus and trench fever in pulp from the teeth of Napoleonic soldiers.
Dec 16, 2005
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University of Virginia scientists say a baseball player's batting average correlates with the player's ability to perceive ball size.
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