Scientists discover new reefs teeming with marine life in Brazil July 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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Scientists announced today the discovery of reef structures they believe doubles the size of the Southern Atlantic Ocean's largest and richest reef system, the Abrolhos Bank, off the southern coast of Brazil's Bahia state. ... | |
Verbally aggressive mothers direct their children's behavior July 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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A new study in Human Communication Research reveals that verbally aggressive mothers tend to control their children's choice of activities as well as use physical negative touch, along with directives, when trying to alter ... | |
 Forest birds evolved early, DNA shows July 10, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Evolution seems to have happened in fits and starts -- at least that's what the fossil record shows. From trilobites to pterodactyls, ammonites to Archaeopteryx, scientists find the same pattern: ... | |
Fraud with cultured pearls can be detected July 15, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | User comments: 2
Scientists at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Germany) advise buyers of cultured pearls to be more vigilant. "In Germany too, we are increasingly seeing Chinese sweet-water cultured pearls being marketed as Japanese, ... | |
Training reassessed after plutonium spill July 15, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | User comments: 2
(AP) -- Use of radioactive materials has been suspended and worker training is being reassessed following a plutonium spill at the Boulder, Colo., laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the agency's ... | |
From humming fish to Puccini: Vocal communication evolved with ancient species July 17, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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It's a long way from the dull hums of the amorous midshipman fish to the strains of a Puccini aria – or, alas, even to the simplest Celine Dion melody. But the neural circuitry that led to the human love song – not to mention ... | |
 Researchers use salmonella to administer vaccines July 18, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | User comments: 2
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University have made a major step forward in their work to develop a biologically engineered organism that can effectively deliver an ... | |
 Stem Cell Chicken and Egg Debate Moves to Unlikely Arena: The Testes July 20, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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Logic says it has to be the niche. As air and water preceded life, so the niche, that hospitable environment that shelters adult stem cells in many tissues and provides factors necessary to keep them young ... | |
The genetics of the white horse unraveled July 20, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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The white horse is an icon for dignity which has had a huge impact on human culture across the world. An international team led by researchers at Uppsala University has now identified the mutation causing this spectacular ... | |
 90 billion tons of microbial organisms live in the deep biosphere July 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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Biogeoscientists show evidence of 90 billion tons of microbial organisms—expressed in terms of carbon mass—living in the deep biosphere, in a research article published online by Nature, July 20, 2008. ... | |
Microbes beneath sea floor genetically distinct July 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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Tiny microbes beneath the sea floor, distinct from life on the Earth's surface, may account for one-tenth of the Earth's living biomass, according to an interdisciplinary team of researchers, but many of these minute creatures ... | |
Scientists recover complete dinosaur skeleton July 24, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Japanese and Mongolian scientists have successfully recovered the complete skeleton of a 70-million-year-old young dinosaur, a nature museum announced Thursday. | |
Media bias can net mistakes at the ballot box June 25, 2008 | User rating: 3.4 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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The media slant political news to the left or right to increase ratings and profits, spinning up an information vacuum that can lead to mistakes at the ballot box, a new study by three University of Illinois economists says. | |
Are you a different person when you speak a different language? June 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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People who are bicultural and speak two languages may actually shift their personalities when they switch from one language to another, according to new research in the Journal of Consumer Research. | |
Negotiating through the glass ceiling June 25, 2008 | User rating: 3.5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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There are fewer women than men involved in high-profile international business deals. But that may change with the results of a new Tel Aviv University study on the role of gender in management, which found that women may ... | |
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