Planting carbon deep in the earth -- rather than the greenhouse
Storing carbon dioxide deep below the earth’s surface could be a safe, long-term solution to one of the planet’s major contributors to climate change.
Earth Sciences
Nov 26, 2007
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Bound to identify intruders
The first lines of defense in our immune systems are specialized mobile units that check the identity of cells to determine whether they are 'self' or 'foreign.' A team of scientists, led by Prof. Israel Pecht of the Weizmann ...
Nov 26, 2007
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Repeating genes
Huntington’s disease is a genetic time bomb: Programmed in the genes, it appears at a predictable age in adulthood, causing a progressive decline in mental and neurological function and finally death. There is, to date, ...
Nov 26, 2007
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Bear hunting altered genetics more than Ice Age isolation
It was not the isolation of the Ice Age that determined the genetic distribution of bears, as has long been thought. This is shown by an international research team led from Uppsala University in Sweden in the latest issue ...
Nov 26, 2007
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Environmental researchers propose radical 'human-centric' map of the world
Ecologists pay too much attention to increasingly rare "pristine" ecosystems while ignoring the overwhelming influence of humans on the environment, say researchers from McGill University and the University of Maryland, Baltimore ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 26, 2007
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New T-ray source could improve airport security, cancer detection
Going through airport security can be such a hassle. Shoes, laptops, toothpastes, watches and belts all get taken off, taken out, scanned, examined, handled and repacked. But "T-rays", a completely safe form of electromagnetic ...
General Physics
Nov 26, 2007
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Dunes, climate models don't match up with paleomagnetic records
For a quarter-century or more, the prevailing view among geoscientists has been that the portion of the ancient supercontinent of Pangea that is now the Colorado Plateau in southern Utah shifted more than 1,300 miles north ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 26, 2007
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Engineers give industry a moth's eye view
When moths fly at night, their eyes need to capture all the light available. To do this, certain species have evolved nanoscopic structures on the surface of their eyes which allow almost no light to reflect off the surface ...
Engineering
Nov 26, 2007
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Older filters, fresher water
Scientists in Australia have discovered that the older the water filter the better when it comes to reducing the off-putting earthy taste of some tap water. Writing in the Inderscience publication International Journal of ...
Environment
Nov 26, 2007
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Digital preservation: Alliance set to tackle science's new frontier
A new digital divide, or rather chasm, is opening up in the scientific enterprise, and something urgently needs to be done to prevent data from being lost into oblivion At the Second International Conference on Permanent ...
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Nov 26, 2007
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