(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in the University of Alberta's Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry have shown that using plastic lab equipment can skew or ruin the results of medical experiments.
Nov 10, 2008
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Delaying marriage could make you happier in the long run, according to new University of Alberta research.
Social Sciences
Mar 8, 2018
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A new study by University of Alberta physicists provides an explanation for why changes to Earth's magnetic field over time are weaker over the Pacific region—a mystery scientists have been trying to solve for nearly a ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 30, 2020
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A five-foot-long skull discovered in war-torn Tunisia has led to the identification of a new species.
Archaeology
Jan 15, 2016
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Rewrite the textbooks and revisit old experiments, because there's a new cog in our cellular machinery that has been discovered by researchers from the University of Alberta and the University of Cambridge Institute for Medical ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 11, 2011
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Scientists at the University of Alberta have applied a machine learning technique using artificial intelligence to perfect and automate atomic-scale manufacturing, something which has never been done before. The vastly greener, ...
Nanophysics
May 23, 2018
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Secrets from the age of the dinosaurs are usually revealed by fossilized bones, but a University of Alberta research team has turned up a treasure trove of Cretaceous feathers trapped in tree resin. The resin turned to resilient ...
Archaeology
Sep 15, 2011
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Four hundred and thirty million years ago, long before the evolution of barracudas or sharks, a different kind of predator stalked the primordial seas. The original sea monsters were eurypterids—better known as sea scorpions.
Archaeology
Apr 18, 2017
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It's not just the size of your horns, but having the experience to know how to use them. Scientists have studied the effects of trophy hunting on bighorn sheep with alarming results: human selection is leading to artificial ...
Ecology
Jan 22, 2016
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About 600 seemingly disparate fungi that never quite found a fit along the fungal family tree have been shown to have a common ancestor, according to a University of Alberta-led research team that used genome sequencing to ...
Evolution
Nov 23, 2022
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