Deer denigrate Pennsylvania forests
Pennsylvania natural resources officials say the state's forests aren't showing any new growth because of overgrazing by deer.
Environment
Apr 2, 2007
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First impressions: Computer model behaves like humans on visual categorization task
Computers can usually out-compute the human brain, but there are some tasks, such as visual object recognition, that the brain performs easily yet are very challenging for computers. The brain has a much more sophisticated ...
Computer Sciences
Apr 2, 2007
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China's earliest modern human
Researchers at WUSTL and the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) in Beijing have been studying a 40,000-year-old early modern human skeleton found in China and have determined that the "out of ...
Archaeology
Apr 2, 2007
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Why the Rich Get Richer
A new theory shows how wealth, in different forms, can stick to some but not to others. The findings have implications ranging from the design of the Internet to economics.
Other
Apr 2, 2007
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Picky-eater Flies Losing Smell Genes
A UC Davis researcher is hot on the scent of some lost fruit fly genes. According to population biology graduate student Carolyn McBride, the specialist fruit fly Drosophila sechellia is losing genes for smell and taste receptors ...
Apr 2, 2007
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Diamonds are forever... diverse
A post-doctoral fellow at McGill University has discovered that diamonds may well be forever, but their origins are not necessarily as clear-cut as commonly believed.
Condensed Matter
Apr 2, 2007
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Novel experiments on cement yield concrete results
Using a brace of the most modern tools of materials research, a team from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and Northwestern University has shed new light on one of mankind’s older construction materials—cement.
Nanomaterials
Apr 2, 2007
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Gene induces eyes in odd spots
A gene thought to play a relatively minor role in eye development is powerful enough on its own to initiate the formation of eyes in strange spots on a fruit fly's body, Indiana University Bloomington scientists have learned.
Apr 2, 2007
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Researchers Synthesize Brightest Fluorescent Particles Ever
Clarkson University Physics Professor Igor Sokolov and his team have discovered a method of making the brightest ever synthesized fluorescent silica particles.
Nanophysics
Apr 2, 2007
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Discovery of 'master switch' for the communication process between chloroplast and nuclei of plants
Scientists have puzzled for years in understanding how plants pass signals of stress due to lack of water or salinity from chloroplast to nucleus. They know that chloroplasts – the cellular organelles that give plants their ...
Apr 2, 2007
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