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Development of new techniques to understand marble... - 9 May 2008
Marbles from Macael at the Alhambra. Click here for more information. The international commerce of ornamental...
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Scientists endure Arctic for last campaign prior to... - 9 May 2008
An international group of scientists has swapped their comfortable offices for one of the most inhospitable environments on the planet to carry...
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Berkeley researchers identify photosynthetic dimmer... - 8 May 2008
Graham Fleming (center) shown here with Tae Ahn (left) and Yuan-Chung Cheng, post-doctoral researchers in his group, were among...
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CSHL scientists are part of consortium that... - 8 May 2008
CSHL team separately reports findings about mammalian evolution gleaned from comparative study of small-RNA function in platypus By any account,...
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What's bugging locusts? - 8 May 2008
It could be they're hungry -- for each other Since ancient times, locust plagues have been viewed as one of the most spectacular events in...
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New gas sensors for monitoring carbon dioxide sinks - 8 May 2008
A world first presented at IFAT 2008 Functional principle of the membranbasierten Gassensors. A potential application of the new...
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Keeping yields, profits and water quality high - 8 May 2008
Researchers investigate the potential of low-input farming systems to benefit both farmers and the environment One of the key questions facing...
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Chilean volcano captured blasting ash - 8 May 2008
Chile's Chaiten Volcano is shown spewing ash and smoke into the air for hundreds of km over Argentina's Patagonia Plateau in...
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Everything's coming up corals - 8 May 2008
University of Miami's Coral Laboratory wins an unprecedented number of NSF Fellowships; accolades VIRGINIA KEY, Fla. – Two University of...
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PNNL, WSU to advance biomass research in new facility - 8 May 2008
Washington State University and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory partner to address dependence on imported oil and advance higher...
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OCAST funds OSU projects with commercial viability - 8 May 2008
Stillwater, Okla.—Three OSU researchers received grants totaling more than $240,000 last week from the Oklahoma Center for the...
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Can business save the planet? - 8 May 2008
New book calls for 'positively responsible' businesses to lead sustainable change Oxford May 8, 2008 – In their new book, Positively...
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First-of-its-kind 14-country study ranks consumers... - 7 May 2008
Consumers in India, Brazil top index; US consumers rank last The Goods sub-index, a combination of everyday consumption and...
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Platypus genome sequence published - 7 May 2008
Platypus genetic blueprint reveals the early history of mammals UK-based researchers at the Medical Research Council Functional Genomics Unit in...
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Rainfall and river networks prove accurate... - 7 May 2008
Ignacio Rodríguez-Iturbe is the senior author of a new paper in the journal Nature showing that water dynamics play a...
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Cyclone Nargis and Myanmar floods seen from space - 7 May 2008
Envisat captures Cyclone Nargis making its way across the Bay of Bengal just south of Myanmar on May 1, 2008, with its Medium...
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Power from formic acid - 7 May 2008
Room temperature is warm enough: hydrogen for fuel cells from formic acid Hydrogen is generated from formic acid amine adducts...
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Ponds found to take up carbon like world's oceans - 7 May 2008
AMES, Iowa -- Research led by Iowa State University limnologist, or lake scientist, John Downing finds that ponds around the globe could absorb...
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High fuel prices could slash US emissions. - 7 May 2008
HIGH gasoline prices could lead to a dramatic saving in US greenhouse-gas emissions. That’s the conclusion of economists in the US, who...
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Global climate models both agree and disagree with... - 7 May 2008
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Scientists who compared recorded Antarctic temperatures and snowfall accumulation to predictions by major computer...
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Climate models overheat Antarctica, new study finds - 7 May 2008
BOULDER--Computer analyses of global climate have consistently overstated warming in Antarctica, concludes new research by scientists at the...
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Platypus genome decoded - 7 May 2008
Genome may yield clues about evolution and disease prevention The ancient, patchworked platypus is a relatively unchanged animal...
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University research contributes to global warming - 7 May 2008
Research labs producing too much CO2 Add university research to the long list of human activities contributing to global warming. Hervé...
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First analysis of platypus genome may impact disease... - 7 May 2008
Mark Batzer decodes 'jumping genes' to trace the evolution of mammals BATON ROUGE – There’s no doubt about it ... the platypus is...
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Platypus genome unravels mysteries of mammalian... - 7 May 2008
Genome Research is publishing several papers related to analyses of the duck-billed platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) genome sequence. The...
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Biodiversity -- it's in the water - 7 May 2008
Top: runoff distribtion; Middle: sub-basin locations; Bottom: fish species distribution Click here for more...
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Platypus genome explains animal's peculiar features;... - 7 May 2008
The duck-billed platypus: part bird, part reptile, part mammal -- and the genome to prove it. An international consortium of scientists, led...
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NJIT applauds students for studies on brain injury,... - 6 May 2008
A better understanding of brain injury, a way to rejuvenate dead nerve endings and a device allowing patients to monitor their glaucoma at...
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The most primitive confuciusornithid bird from China... - 6 May 2008
Professor Zhang FuCheng and his colleagues discovered and named a new confuciusornithid bird, Eoconfuciusornis zhengi, gen. et sp. nov. that...
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May 14 AAAS Lecture and videoteleconference on... - 6 May 2008
Watercolor on paper by Senya Koyakin, a middle school student in Zhigansk, Siberia. Credit: Image of Senya Koyakin's Click...
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