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Thursday, March 18, 2010

What Makes You Unique? Not Genes So Much as Surrounding Sequences, Study Finds

The key to human individuality may lie not in our genes, but in the sequences that surround and control them, according to new research. ...  > full story
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Cassini Shows Saturnian Roller Derby, Strange Weather

From our vantage point on Earth, Saturn may look like a peaceful orb with rings worthy of a carefully raked Zen garden, but NASA's Cassini spacecraft has been shadowing the gas giant long ...  > full story
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Dogs Likely Originated in the Middle East, New Genetic Data Indicate

Dogs likely originated in the Middle East, a new genetic analysis by an international team of scientists indicates. Previous genetic research suggested an East Asian origin for dogs. ...  > full story
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Astronomers Discover Most Primitive Supermassive Black Holes Known

Astronomers have come across what appear to be two of the earliest and most primitive supermassive black holes known. The discovery, based largely on observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, ...  > full story
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Fossil of Rare Armor-Plated Worm-Like Creature Discovered in Canada's Capital

Scientists have unearthed the remains of one of the world's rarest fossils -- in downtown Ottawa, Canada. The 450-million-year-old fossil ...  > full story
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Brain Naturally Follows Scientific Method? Less Effort to Register 'Predictable' Images

It turns out that there is a striking similarity between how the human brain determines what is going on in the outside world and the job of scientists. Good ...  > full story
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Phylogenetic Analysis of Mexican Cave Scorpions Suggests Adaptation to Caves Is Reversible

A new study of the scorpion family Typhlochactidae, a group of nine dark-adapted species endemic to Mexico, shows that specialized traits are not necessarily an ...  > full story
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Water Oxidation Advance Boosts Potential for Solar Fuel

Chemists have developed the most potent homogeneous catalyst known for water oxidation, considered a crucial component for generating clean hydrogen fuel using only water and sunlight. ...  > full story
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Marine Mr. Mom: Male Pipefish Gives Birth, but Some Are Deadbeat Dads, Study Shows

Male pipefishes and their seahorse cousins are the only males that actually become pregnant and give birth, but pipefishes likely will never win any "Father of The Year" ...  > full story
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Jaws -- 4 Million BC: How an Extinct Shark Attacked Its Prey

Palaeontologists have discovered evidence of how an extinct shark attacked its prey, reconstructing a killing that took place 4 million years ago. ...  > full story
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