Oil, gas, propane? Penn State site compares home heating options October 09, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(PhysOrg.com) -- That nip in the air means fall is here, and many homeowners are facing a drastically more expensive home-heating season. An energy specialist in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences says it's not ... | |
 arXiv online scientific repository hits milestone October 09, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Reinforcing its place in the scientific community, the arXiv repository at Cornell University Library reached a new milestone in October 2008: Half a million e-print postings -- research articles published ... | |
Some countries sidestep Kyoto rules with land 'donations' October 09, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(PhysOrg.com) -- When is a park a meaningful piece of protected land and when is it merely a political gesture? | |
 Digital zebrafish embryo provides the first complete developmental blueprint of a vertebrate October 09, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Researchers at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) have generated a digital zebrafish embryo - the first complete developmental blueprint of a vertebrate. With a newly developed microscope scientists ... | |
 At 2.8 km down, a 1-of-a-kind microorganism lives all alone October 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 51 vote(s)
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The first ecosystem ever found having only a single biological species has been discovered 2.8 kilometers (1.74 miles) beneath the surface of the earth in the Mponeng gold mine near Johannesburg, South Africa. ... | |
Moose killing riles Michigan town October 09, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Some residents of the town of Ishpeming, Mich., are furious at police officers and a state biologist who killed a female moose that wandered into town, leaving its twin calves to fend for themselves during the winter. | |
Nobel prizewinner describes his chemistry research as ‘a 1970s disco light' October 09, 2008 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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Columbia University professor Martin Chalfie called the subject of his Nobel Prize-winning research "a 1970s disco light" that traces the growth of diseases such as cancer and Alzheimer's. | |
Turning freshwater farm ponds into crab farms October 09, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Work by researchers at North Carolina State University is leading to a new kind of crab harvest – blue crabs grown and harvested from freshwater ponds, instead of from the sea. | |
Expert: Flawed corporate watchdog methods helped fuel economic crisis October 09, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Archaic corporate governing systems that failed to ferret out risky business deals helped stoke the nation's deepest financial meltdown since the Great Depression, a University of Illinois business law expert says. | |
Evolution of virulence regulation in Staphylococcus aureus October 09, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Scientists have gained insight into the complex mechanisms that control bacterial pathogenesis and, as a result, have developed new theories about how independent mechanisms may have become intertwined during evolution. The ... | |
Promising new material that could improve gas mileage October 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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With gasoline at high prices, it's disheartening to know that up to three-quarters of the potential energy you are paying for is wasted. A good deal of it goes right out the tailpipe instead of powering your car. | |
 Brainy genes, not brawn, key to success on mussel beach October 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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It's hard being a mussel: you have to worry about hungry starfish and even hungrier humans, not to mention an environment that can change your body temperature 50 degrees Fahrenheit in just a few hours. | |
Research finds drug candidate slows age-related macular degeneration October 09, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Research results from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine show that the progression of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is markedly slowed in new laboratory-engineered mice when they received treatments ... | |
Economic crisis could stop citizens from voting: research October 09, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
During election season, Americans are reminded of their freedoms and rights that allow them to vote for their leaders. As countless political polls try to predict how voters are being swayed, those polled may not be allowed ... | |
 Researchers discover how infectious bacteria can switch species October 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Scientists from the Universities of Bath and Exeter have developed a rapid new way of checking for toxic genes in disease-causing bacteria which infect insects and humans. Their findings could in the future ... | |
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