While our "body clock" regulates our 24 hour daily routine, a woman's menstrual cycle follows a 30 day rhythm. Many marine animals, such as the worm Platynereis, synchronize their reproduction rhythm with the lunar cycle. ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 4, 2013
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Infrared thermography is increasingly being applied to investigate the cause of lameness in horses. The equipment is easy to handle and the method is fast and safe, both for the animal and for the vet. But is it accurate? ...
Other
Mar 27, 2013
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Programmed cell death, or apoptosis, occurs tens of millions of times every day in every human body. Researchers in South Korea have devised an easy method to detect apoptotic cells by fluorescence, as they report in Chemistry—An ...
Biochemistry
Jan 25, 2013
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(Phys.org)—Twin NASA probes orbiting Earth's moon have generated the highest resolution gravity field map of any celestial body.
Space Exploration
Dec 5, 2012
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(Phys.org)—Craig Lusk's job takes on many shapes.
Engineering
Nov 22, 2012
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A new power-free microfluidic chip developed by researchers at the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute (ASI) enables detection of microRNA from extremely small sample volume in only 20 minutes. By drastically reducing the time ...
Analytical Chemistry
Nov 7, 2012
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Sunbathing may be healthy – at least for one group of North American insects that apparently uses the activity to fight off germs, Simon Fraser University scientists have found.
Plants & Animals
Aug 24, 2012
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Scientists are reporting development of a new form of buckypaper, which eliminates a major drawback of these sheets of carbon nanotubes -- 50,000 times thinner than a human hair, 10 times lighter than steel, but up to 250 ...
Nanomaterials
Feb 8, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Geometric skeletons are fundamental concepts in many areas of science and engineering.
Mathematics
Mar 9, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Using innovative thermal imaging techniques and CCTV recording, a St Andrews academic has shed new light on previously unseen aspects of the life of seals.
Plants & Animals
Sep 10, 2009
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