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Ocean changes may have dire impact on people - 0 views

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ocean changes impact

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    "Scientists reveal the growing atmospheric concentrations of man-made greenhouse gases are driving irreversible and dramatic changes to the way the ocean functions, with potentially dire impacts for hundreds of millions of people across the planet. "
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Extinction of woolly mammoth, saber-toothed cat may have been caused by human predators - 0 views

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    ScienceDaily (July 1, 2010) - A new analysis of the extinction of woolly mammoths and other large mammals more than 10,000 years ago suggests that they may have fallen victim to the same type of "trophic cascade" of ecosystem disruption that scientists say is being caused today by the global decline of predators such as wolves, cougars, and sharks.
Sam M

The Rare and Beautiful Noctilucent Clouds - 0 views

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clouds noctilucent climate change rare clouds

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    These beautiful noctilucent clouds once rare are being seen more often and at lower latitudes. Scientists think noctilucent clouds could be a sign of global climate change. What are these clouds and why are they being seen more often.
Charles Daney

Bird sex gene found :The Scientist - 0 views

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    Researchers have cracked the long-time mystery of how sex is determined in birds: A dose-dependent effect of a single gene on one of the sex chromosomes does the trick, according to a study published this week in Nature.
Charles Daney

The cosmic comic: Riding early waves - 0 views

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cosmology big bang

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    Two fictitious high-spirited scientists of the institute, passionate surfers, take off to visit the early Universe. Not to do serious research there but to experience the ultimate ride on the plasma waves of the big bang. However, they quickly realize that they would be stuck without their knowledge of the physics of the early Universe.
Charles Daney

Radical New Theory: Black Holes Attack and Devour Stars from the Inside - Space.com - 0 views

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black holes gamma-ray bursts

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    As if they weren't considered beastly enough, black holes can dive into nearby stars and devour them from the inside out, scientists now suggest. Such invasions by such black holes could help explain the most powerful explosions in the universe, gamma-ray bursts, whose origins remain elusive.
Charles Daney

Mystery of Bird Maleness Partly Solved - 0 views

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    In a recent study, researchers show that a gene called DMRT1 found only on the Z chromosome partly explains bird "maleness". When a ZZ embryo gets less DMRT1, the embryos start to take on some female traits. These studies show us that bird gender can be partly explained by genetics. Not having enough of a single gene can keep a bird from becoming a bona fide male bird. But this doesn't rule out the possibility of a female gene being on the W chromosome. Scientists just haven't yet found one.
Max Peterson

World will 'cool for the next decade' - 09 September 2009 - New Scientist - 2 views

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    Predictions by Mojib Latif that there may be a slow down in global warming over the next decade that could bely the overall trend.
Walid Damouny

Researchers explore link between schizophrenia, cat parasite - 1 views

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  • There are unusually low rates of schizophrenia and toxoplasmosis in countries where cats are rare, and unusually high rates in places where eating uncooked meat is customary.
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    "Johns Hopkins University scientists trying to determine why people develop serious mental illness are focusing on an unlikely factor: a common parasite spread by cats."
thinkahol *

Long hot summer of fire and floods fit predictions - 1 views

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    (AP) -- Floods, fires, melting ice and feverish heat: From smoke-choked Moscow to water-soaked Pakistan and the High Arctic, the planet seems to be having a midsummer breakdown. It's not just a portent of things to come, scientists say, but a sign of troubling climate change already under way.
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Monkeys recognize themselves in the mirror, indicating self-awareness | KurzweilAI - 0 views

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Monkeys recognize themselves in the mirror indicating self-awareness | KurzweilAI

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    A study published Sept. 29 by Luis Populin, a professor of anatomy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, shows that under specific conditions, a rhesus macaque monkey that normally would fail the "mark test" can still recognize itself in the mirror and perform actions that scientists would expect from animals that are self-aware.
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Curious mathematical law is rife in nature - physics-math - 14 October 2010 - New Scien... - 0 views

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Curious mathematical law is rife in nature - physics-math 14 October 2010 New Scientist

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    WHAT do earthquakes, spinning stellar remnants, bright space objects and a host of other natural phenomena have in common? Some of their properties conform to a curious and little known mathematical law, which could now find new uses.
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Constant change: Are there no universal laws? - space - 25 October 2010 - New Scientist - 2 views

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Constant change: Are there no universal laws? - space 25 October 2010 New Scientist

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    It looks like physics works differently in different places. If so, everything we think we know about the cosmos may be wrong
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How ancient plants and soil fungi turned Earth green - 0 views

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How ancient plants and soil fungi turned Earth green

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    ScienceDaily (Nov. 2, 2010) - New research by scientists at the University of Sheffield has shed light on how Earth's first plants began to colonize the land over 470 million years ago by forming a partnership with soil fungi.
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How cannabis dampens the immune system - health - 03 December 2010 - New Scientist - 0 views

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How cannabis dampens the immune system - health 03 December 2010 New Scientist

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    By dampening the immune system, cannabis provides relief from inflammatory diseases, but it also increases the risk of infections. Now we know how
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Many coastal wetlands likely to disappear this century, scientists say - 0 views

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Many coastal wetlands likely to disappear this century scientists say

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    ScienceDaily (Dec. 1, 2010) - Many coastal wetlands worldwide -- including several on the U.S. Atlantic coast -- may be more sensitive than previously thought to climate change and sea-level rise projections for the 21st century.
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The gene-environment enigma - 0 views

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The gene-environment enigma

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    ScienceDaily (Dec. 3, 2010) - Personalized medicine centers on being able to predict the risk of disease or response to a drug based on a person's genetic makeup. But a study by scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggests that, for most common diseases, genes alone only tell part of the story.
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Breakthrough chip technology lights path to exascale computing: Optical signals connect... - 0 views

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Breakthrough chip technology lights path to exascale computing: Optical signals connect chips together faster and with lower power

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    ScienceDaily (Dec. 3, 2010) - IBM scientists have unveiled a new chip technology that integrates electrical and optical devices on the same piece of silicon, enabling computer chips to communicate using pulses of light (instead of electrical signals), resulting in smaller, faster and more power-efficient chips than is possible with conventional technologies.
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Do our bodies' bacteria play matchmaker? - 0 views

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Do our bodies' bacteria play matchmaker?

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    Based on a theory developed by Prof. Rosenberg and Dr. Ilana Zilber-Rosenberg, the scientists propose that the basic unit of natural selection is not the individual living organism, plant or animal, but rather a larger biological milieu called a holobiont. This milieu can include plant or animal life as well as their symbiotic partners. In the case of animals, these partners tend to be microorganisms like intestinal bacteria.
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