'Two-mouthed' trout caused by injury
Clarence Olberding of Lincoln, Neb., believed he had caught a new type of trout -- one with two mouths.
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Scientists study how sperm get into an egg
Scientists from Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Maryland say they've identified a key component of the mechanism spermatozoa use to enter an egg.
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NASA lists Challenges Program rules
NASA's Centennial Challenges Program officials Wednesday released draft rules for six new prize competitions, including spacesuit and vehicle challenges.
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IBM Unveils Revolutionary Cell Broadband Engine Computer
At a press conference in New York today, IBM introduced a blade computing system based on the Cell Broadband Engine (Cell BE). The IBM branded Cell BE-based system is designed for businesses that need the dense computing ...
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Physics in the Game: When a Goal is Scored as if by Magic
Miracles happen over and over again. Even in the sport which the Germans love the most – soccer. But when the ball flies in a curve and hits the goal it has nothing to do with magic powers. Here it is rather a question of ...
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Sex: It's costly but worth it. Just ask a microbe
The next time you mutter about the high cost of relationship maintenance, take comfort in knowing that microbes share your pain. In the first study to examine the cost of sexuality in microbes, Jianping Xu, associate professor ...
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Disks encircling hypergiant stars may spawn planets in inhospitable environment
The discovery of dusty disks--the building blocks of planets--around two of the most massive stars known suggests that planets might form and survive in surprisingly hostile environments.
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New technology developed for more compact, inexpensive spectrometers
Being the delicate optical instruments that they are, spectrometers are pretty picky about light. But Georgia Tech researchers have developed a technology to help spectrometers -- instruments that can be used as the main ...
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'Roof of the world' tells tale of colliding continents, Earth's interior
Geologists have learned that the height of the Tibetan Plateau, a vast, elevated region of central Asia sometimes called "the roof of the world," has remained remarkably constant for at least 35 million years.
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Study explains unexpected conductivity of nanoscale silicon
When graduate student Pengpeng Zhang successfully imaged a piece of silicon just 10 nanometers-or a millionth of a centimeter-in thickness, she and her University of Wisconsin-Madison co-researchers were puzzled. According ...
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