Testing biological fluids such as blood and urine is essential for both diagnostics and routine checks. In remote, non-industrialized regions or for emergency on-the-spot diagnosis, current methods of laboratory analysis ...
Jan 29, 2007
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Endangered animal and plant species regularly make the news, but another type of endangered species is often overlooked: human languages. A University of Missouri-Columbia researcher has dedicated much of her career to studying ...
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Jan 29, 2007
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Donald Osterbrock, former director of Lick Observatory in California and author of a textbook on gaseous nebulae, has died at 82.
Other
Jan 29, 2007
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Climate effects from global warming will be irreversible in 10 years with "serious reductions in carbon emissions," British researchers have concluded.
Environment
Jan 29, 2007
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As humans exert ever-greater influence on the Earth, their preferences will play a substantial role in determining which other species survive. New research shows that, in some cases, those preferences could be governed by ...
Jan 29, 2007
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While government leaders argue about the practicality of reducing world emissions of carbon dioxide, scientists and engineers are seeking ways to make it happen.
Nanomaterials
Jan 29, 2007
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It's a mystery why the speed and complexity of evolution appear to increase with time. For example, the fossil record indicates that single-celled life first appeared about 3.5 billion years ago, and it then took about 2.5 ...
General Physics
Jan 29, 2007
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Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have discovered new details about how bacteria generate energy to live. In two recently published papers, the scientists add key specifics to the molecular mechanism behind ...
Jan 29, 2007
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Africa is being torn apart. And as Ethiopia's rift valley grows slowly wider, an international team of scientists is taking a unique opportunity to plot the progress of continents on the move.
Earth Sciences
Jan 29, 2007
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A new technique that employs RNA, a tiny chemical cousin of DNA, to turn on genes could lead to therapeutics for conditions in which nudging a gene awake would help alleviate disease, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical ...
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