The details surrounding the emergence and evolution of religion have not been clearly established and remain a source of much debate among scholars. Now, an article published by Cell Press in the journal Trends in Cognitive ...
Social Sciences
Feb 8, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Each year, 83,000 life-threatening fungal infections cost us $2.6 billion. And this number will only go up as HIV infection, cancer chemotherapy, and organ transplants bump up the immune-compromised population ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 8, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A novel strategy for engineering semiconductor materials can boost the performance of water-splitting solar cells for hydrogen production, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, ...
Nanomaterials
Feb 8, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists working on the Cassini mission to Saturn have found evidence of liquid water on the planet's icy moon Enceladus, suggesting the possibility of life below its surface.
Space Exploration
Feb 8, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The world's smallest species of eel-loach fish has been discovered by a Natural History Museum scientist and his colleague this month and is featured on the Museum's Species of the day today.
Plants & Animals
Feb 8, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Charter schools continue to stratify students by race, class, and possibly language, and are more racially isolated than traditional public schools in virtually every state and large metropolitan area in ...
Social Sciences
Feb 8, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- "Although the orb web of a spider is a lightweight structure, it seems to be a highly optimized structure, presumably as a result of evolution from the Jurassic period or earlier," explain physicists Yuko ...
Google has filed an appeal of a court decision that ordered the US Internet giant to stop digitising French books without publishers' approval, its lawyers said Monday.
Internet
Feb 8, 2010
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(AP) -- The Obama administration is forming a new agency to study and report on the changing climate.
Environment
Feb 8, 2010
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Bookstore giant Barnes & Noble said Monday that its new electronic book reader, the "Nook," will be available in US stores this week.
Consumer & Gadgets
Feb 8, 2010
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