Vatican celebrates big bang to dispel faith-science conflict
The Vatican is celebrating the big-bang theory. That's not as out of this world as it sounds.
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Global warming kills gut bacteria in lizards
Climate change could threaten reptiles by reducing the number of bacteria living in their guts, new research suggests.
Ecology
May 8, 2017
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Changes in Early Stone Age tool production have 'musical' ties
New research suggests that advances in the production of Early Stone Age tools had less to do with the evolution of language and more to do with the brain networks involved in modern piano playing.
Evolution
May 8, 2017
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The evolutionary story of birch, told through 80 genomes
Forests of silver birch stretch across Europe, and they are a wonder to behold: stands of slender, white-barked trees sheltering vast swathes of earth.
Biotechnology
May 8, 2017
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Finding a new major gene expression regulator in fungi
Just four letters—A, C, T, and G—make up an organism's genetic code. Changing a single letter, or base, can lead to changes in protein structures and functions, impacting an organism's traits. In addition, though, subtler ...
Biotechnology
May 8, 2017
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Earth was barren, flat and almost entirely under water 4.4 billion years ago
Scientists at The Australian National University (ANU) say the early Earth was likely to be barren, flat and almost entirely under water with a few small islands, following their analysis of tiny mineral grains as old as ...
Earth Sciences
May 8, 2017
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New plutonium discovery lights way to clean up nuclear waste
Plutonium has long been part of many countries' nuclear energy strategies, but scientists are still unlocking the mysteries behind this complicated element and seeing how they can use heavier, nuclear elements to clean up ...
Materials Science
May 8, 2017
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Norway to kill 2,000 reindeer to eradicate disease
The Norwegian government on Monday authorised the slaughter of a herd of around 2,000 reindeer in a bid to eradicate a brain-destroying disease, after several cases were detected in Norway for the first time in Europe.
Ecology
May 8, 2017
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Researchers create touchpads with a can of spray paint
Touch sensing is most common on small, flat surfaces such as smartphone or tablet screens. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, however, can turn surfaces of a wide variety of shapes and sizes into touchpads using tools ...
Engineering
May 8, 2017
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Team unveils dual-channel biological function generator
Rice University bioengineers who specialize in creating tools for synthetic biology have unveiled the latest version of their "biofunction generator and "bioscilloscope," an optogenetic platform that uses light to activate ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 8, 2017
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