Profound doubts were the frequent response when MIT biophysicist Alexander Rich announced that two single-strand ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules could spontaneously align themselves to form a double helix, just like those ...
Jan 9, 2007
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The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) are two of the Milky Way's closest neighboring galaxies. Both are visible only in the southern hemisphere. By studying their orbits, astronomers can learn ...
Astronomy
Jan 9, 2007
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China is the world's dump for electronic waste with about 70 percent of the industry's material smuggled into the country, a Chinese scientist said.
Environment
Jan 9, 2007
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Technology that reads what people think by measuring changes in the brain's blood flow has been developed, said Japanese researchers.
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Jan 9, 2007
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A superbubble in space, caught in the act of forming, can help scientists better understand the life and death of massive stars, say researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Astronomy
Jan 9, 2007
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Earth's inhabitants are used to temperatures that vary, sometimes greatly, between day and night. New measurements for three planets outside our solar system indicate their temperatures remain fairly constant – and blazing ...
Astronomy
Jan 9, 2007
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In attempting to construct an artificial cochlea—and faced with limited knowledge of how the living chamber works—scientists might need to look no further than a simple electronic device: a surface acoustic wave (SAW) ...
Combining synthetic chemistry techniques with a knowledge of the properties and actions of enzymes, scientists have been able to produce an exciting class of anti-cancer drugs originally isolated from blue-green algae.
Jan 9, 2007
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