The spiral galaxy M33, also known as the Triangulum Galaxy, is one of our closest cosmic neighbours, just three million light-years away. Home to some forty billion stars, it is the third largest in the Local Group of galaxies ...
Astronomy
Jul 28, 2014
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Scientists from the University of York are part of an international team of researchers who have made a significant step in discovering the genetic mechanisms that plants use to fight for light.
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 28, 2014
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The huge Sunshield test unit for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been successfully unfurled for the first time in a key milestone ahead of the launch scheduled for October 2018.
Space Exploration
Jul 28, 2014
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When hazy planets pass across the face of their star, a curious thing happens. Astronomers are not able to see any changes in the range of light coming from the star and planet system.
Space Exploration
Jul 28, 2014
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Foraging behavior and adaptations for feeding in the context of habitat condition have been studied widely in living suids (pigs) but rarely in their fossil relatives. A study published in Science China: Earth Sciences (5) ...
Archaeology
Jul 28, 2014
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The world is unmistakeably warming, melting glaciers and raising sea levels world-wide.
Earth Sciences
Jul 28, 2014
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If you're like us, you might've looked at a globe of the Earth in elementary school long before the days of Google Earth and wondered just what that strange looking figure eight thing on its side was.
Space Exploration
Jul 28, 2014
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If seed breeding companies, gene banks and the Svalbard Global Seed Vault on Spitsbergen should store plant seeds under oxygen-poor conditions, it would be possible to store them for much longer while still maintaining their ...
Ecology
Jul 28, 2014
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Native species interfering with ground distributed baits used to control red foxes in south west Western Australia may mean the baits are not available to the target species, a Murdoch University study has found.
Ecology
Jul 28, 2014
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Just how much information we give away about ourselves as we browse the web has been raised again by a tracking device used in thousands of websites.
Internet
Jul 28, 2014
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