Researchers Discover ‘Supergiant’ Amphipods in the Kermadec Trench

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Researchers Develop Method for Making High-Temperature Photonic Crystals

Previously Unknown Hominin Discovered In Denisova Cave in Siberia

“Mediocre to Awful” State Science Standards Could Jeopardize U.S. Competitiveness

Researchers Use Computer Simulations to Better Understand Spider Silk

The Bolshoi Simulation: Boxing the Universe

Scientists Use Ultra-Short Pulses of Terahertz Laser Light to Manipulate Magnetism

Neuroscientists Decode Correlation Between Sound and Brain Activity

Little Ice Age Sparked by Volcanoes, Sustained by Sea-Ice Feedback

DNA Monomer Assembly and Target Recognition

Researchers Developing Handheld Pathogen Detector

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February 4, 2012

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Altered Microbes that Cause Obesity & Chronic Liver Disease May be Infectious

Research from scientists at the Yale School of Medicine suggests that obesity and chronic liver disease from altered populations of microbes in the stomach may be infectious. While studying healthy mice, they found that the mice developed susceptibility for development of liver disease and obesity when co-housed with mice containing the altered gut microbes. The [...]

February 4, 2012

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Researchers Discover Chloroplast Genomes Transfer from Plant to Plant

transfer chloroplasts can occur in contact zones between plants

While studying DNA from plants’ green chloroplasts, researchers at Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in Potsdamare discovered that a transfer of chloroplasts genomes can occur in contact zones between plants. Researchers believe these findings will help scientists further understand of evolution and breeding of new plant varieties since the new chloroplast genome can [...]

February 3, 2012

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Controversial Proposal Wants Sugar to be Regulated as a Toxic Substance

A new, controversial proposal would try to regulate sugar as a toxic substance, since it’s calorie-rich and naturally enables obesity. Researchers consider it close to alcohol and tobacco, with unique properties that set off a hormonal response, resulting in higher risks of heart disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes. A growing body of research is [...]

February 3, 2012

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Radioactive Isotopes Hint At North Korean Nuclear Tests

While it’s far from conclusive, an analysis of radioisotope data indicates that North Korea may have conducted two nuclear weapons tests in 2010. The claim has drawn some skepticism from nuclear weapons experts, but if this is confirmed, it would double the number of tests the country has conducted and infer that North Korea is [...]

February 3, 2012

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Ecuador Rainforest Fungus Survives on Polyurethane without Oxygen

Polyurethane is one of the most commonly used plastics in different types of products, but it’s also one that takes an extremely long period of time before it can be broken down. A team of students from Yale discovered a fungus that has a healthy appetite for all things made out of polyurethane, which includes [...]

February 3, 2012

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Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory Search for “Supersolids”

ORNL Scientists using world-class Spallation Neutron Source will hunt for supersolids

Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are searching for the quantum state of matter called supersolidity. Now conducting research at ORNL’s Spallation Neutron Source, Hans Lauter has observed a superfluid transition in solid helium and believes that may lead to supersolid helium as a new quantum state. A series of neutron scattering experiments at Oak [...]

February 3, 2012

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SOLITAIRE Flow Restoration Device Improves the Removal of Stroke-Causing Blood Clots

New device removes stroke-causing blood clots

Research presented at the American Stroke Association’s 2012 international conference shows that the SOLITAIRE Flow Restoration Device removes stroke-causing blood clots far better than the FDA approved MERCI Retrieve device. SOLITAIRE opened blocked vessels without causing symptomatic bleeding in or around the brain in 61 percent of patients and use of the device led to [...]

February 3, 2012

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DARPA’s HACMS Program Seeks to Create New Technology

DARPA Seeks to Improve Embedded Computer Systems Security

DARPA’s The High-Assurance Cyber Military Systems program seeks to improve the security of embedded computer systems. To do this, researchers are looking to create new technology for the construction of systems by adopting a method-based approach to enable semi-automated code synthesis from executable, formal specifications. Embedded computer systems play a part in every aspect of [...]

February 3, 2012

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Scientists Use Tasar Silkworm to Help Grow Artificial Cardiac Tissue

scientists use silk from the tasar silkworm as a scaffold for heart tissue

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research are trying to repair damaged cardiac tissue by growing replacement tissue in a laboratory. By using the silk produced by a tropical silkworm, researchers created a three-dimensional scaffold that they were able load cardiac muscle cells into. They hope this research will lead to [...]

February 3, 2012

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Juno Spacecraft Completes First Trajectory Correction Maneuver

The solar-powered Juno spacecraft that was launched in 2011 to improve our understanding of Jupiter’s formation and evolution just completed the mission’s first trajectory correction maneuver. NASA scientists confirmed that the burn went very smoothly and is the first of several planned rocket firings that will keep Juno on course to rendezvous with Jupiter in [...]

February 3, 2012

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Researchers Discover ‘Supergiant’ Amphipods in the Kermadec Trench

Researchers from University of Aberdeen and National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) discovered ‘supergiant’ amphipods while exploring the Kermadec Trench, north of New Zealand. These explorers were searching for deep sea snailfish , but at depths of approximately 7000 meters, they discovered these amphipods that are nearly ten times that of ‘normal’ amphipods. [...]

February 3, 2012

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NASA Releases Companion Image to ‘Blue Marble’

companion image to the wildly popular Blue Marble

Due to public demand, NASA released a new companion image to “Blue Marble” released just a short time ago. Compiled by a NASA Goddard scientist, the new image is a composite of six separate orbits that were taken by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) aboard Suomi NPP. The Suomi NPP satellite is in [...]

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