A team of scientists at Oxford University has discovered a new type of embryonic stem cell in mice and rats that is the closest counterpart yet to human embryonic stem cells.
Jun 28, 2007
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NASA's Mars rover Opportunity is scheduled to begin a descent down a rock-paved slope into the Red Planet's massive Victoria Crater. This latest trek carries real risk for the long-lived robotic explorer, but NASA and the ...
Space Exploration
Jun 28, 2007
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A team of University of Cambridge Geologists will follow in the footsteps of Charles Darwin on a unique expedition to the Galapagos Islands in July.
Earth Sciences
Jun 28, 2007
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A bio-friendly nano-sized light source capable of emitting coherent light across the visible spectrum, has been invented by a team of researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, ...
Nanophysics
Jun 28, 2007
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The High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board Mars Express has provided snapshots of the Aeolis Mensae region. This area, well known for its wind-eroded features, lies on a tectonic transition zone, characterised by incised ...
Space Exploration
Jun 28, 2007
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Web searchers who evaluated identical search-engine results overwhelmingly favored Yahoo! and Google, providing evidence that branding matters as much on the Internet as off, according to a Penn State study.
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Jun 28, 2007
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The reproductive monopoly of the ant queen is not as strong as is often thought. Dr. Heikki Helanterä and Prof. Lotta Sundström, biologists working at the University of Helsinki, Finland, investigated worker ovary development ...
Jun 28, 2007
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A USC Information Sciences Institute researcher is among a growing group of computer scientists learning to solve difficult IT problems of information classification, reliability and meaning by datamining public websites ...
Computer Sciences
Jun 28, 2007
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Research Scientist Jaakko Leppänen from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed a new calculation code in his doctoral thesis, for the modelling of neutron physics in nuclear reactors. The so-called Monte ...
Computer Sciences
Jun 28, 2007
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Research comparing silicon samples from Earth, meteorites and planetary materials, published in Nature (28th June 2007), provides new evidence that the Earth’s core formed under very different conditions from those that ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 28, 2007
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