Tuatara evolving faster than any other species
New DNA research has questioned previous notions about the evolution of the tuatara.
Feb 29, 2008
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Standardized battery wants to appeal to all gadgets
All plug-in electronics use the same power cord, and all battery-operated devices use one of a few standard sizes. Even computer accessories mostly all have USB capabilities. So why not standardize rechargeable batteries ...
Plant growth experiment starts in Columbus
ESA astronaut Léopold Eyharts has activated the first experiment inside the European Columbus laboratory. The WAICO experiment, which investigates the effect of gravity on plant root growth, has started inside the module's ...
Space Exploration
Feb 29, 2008
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Biomagnetics developed for use in new breast cancer tests
A team from UCL has developed a new medical device which will make the early detection of breast cancer more cost effective and easier to administer. The team - which won a prestigious Brian Mercer Feasibility Award from ...
Bio & Medicine
Feb 29, 2008
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Steps towards warship invisibility
Naval warships might look like all-powerful vessels but they are also highly vulnerable to being spotted by the enemy. That fear of being detected has led the military to develop new stealth technologies that allow ships ...
General Physics
Feb 29, 2008
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Dutch University Tests Windmill for Seawater Desalination
A traditional windmill which drives a pump: that is the simple concept behind the combination of windmill/reverse osmosis developed by the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in The Netherlands. In this case, it involves ...
Engineering
Feb 29, 2008
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Brown mathematicians prove new way to build a better estimate
How do you sift through hundreds of billions of bits of information and make accurate inferences from such gargantuan sets of data? Brown University mathematician Charles “Chip” Lawrence and graduate student Luis Carvalho ...
Mathematics
Feb 29, 2008
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Large source of nitrate, a potential water contaminant, found in near-surface desert soils
A UC Riverside-led study in the Mojave Desert, Calif., has found that soils under “desert pavement” have an unusually high concentration of nitrate, a type of salt, close to the surface. Vulnerable to erosion by rain ...
Environment
Feb 29, 2008
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Darwin was wrong about the wild origin of the chicken
Charles Darwin maintained that the domesticated chicken derives from the red jungle fowl, but new research from Uppsala University now shows that the wild origins of the chicken are more complicated than that.
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AMANDA's First Six Years
The most recent results from the Antarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector Array, or AMANDA, located a mile under the ice at the South Pole, have yielded the most stringent prediction yet for the highest possible rate that neutrinos ...
