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An academic from the University of Aberdeen will be one of more than 60 scientists and technicians preparing for the European Space Agency’s Foton M3 mission next month.
Space Exploration
Aug 8, 2007
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A spectacular new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope uncovers a small group of young stellar "siblings" in the southern portion of the Serpens cloud – located approximately 848 light-years away from Earth. Scientists ...
Astronomy
Aug 8, 2007
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The International Space Station crew was busy Wednesday preparing for the arrival this week of space shuttle Endeavour and its STS-118 crew.
Space Exploration
Aug 8, 2007
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Two new fossils, described this week in the journal Nature, cast fresh light on a little understood and important period of human prehistory at the dawn of our own genus, Homo.
Paleontology & Fossils
Aug 8, 2007
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Rainforests are the world’s treasure houses of biodiversity, but all rainforests are not the same. Biodiversity may be more evenly distributed in some forests than in others and, therefore, may require different management ...
Aug 8, 2007
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Traditional plow-based agricultural methods and the need to feed a rapidly growing world population are combining to deplete the Earth's soil supply, a new study confirms.
Environment
Aug 8, 2007
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Using DNA sequence data, botanists have shown that the large southern hemisphere plant family Proteaceae lived on the super-continent Gondwanaland almost 120 million years ago. As Gondwanaland broke up, it was originally ...
Aug 8, 2007
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A key challenge facing doctors as they treat patients suffering from cancer or other diseases resulting from genetic mutations is that the drugs at their disposal often don’t discriminate between healthy cells and dangerous ...
Aug 8, 2007
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is soliciting ideas to help shape its logistics services for the International Space Station.
Space Exploration
Aug 8, 2007
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Corals in the central and western Pacific ocean are dying faster than previously thought, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers have found. Nearly 600 square miles of reef have disappeared per year since ...
Environment
Aug 8, 2007
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