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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Active Hearing Process in Mosquitoes

A mathematical model has explained some of the remarkable features of mosquito hearing. In particular, the male can hear the faintest beats of the female's wings and yet is not deafened by loud noises. ...  > full story
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Large Hadron Collider: Beams Are Back on at World's Most Powerful Particle Accelerator

Particle beams are once again zooming around the world's most powerful particle accelerator -- the Large Hadron Collider -- located at the CERN laboratory ...  > full story
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Frog Legs Trade May Facilitate Spread of Pathogens

Most countries throughout the world participate in the $40-million-per-year culinary trade of frog legs in some way, with 75 percent of frog legs consumed in France, Belgium and ...  > full story
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Spinal Cord Injuries: Experimental Drug May Restore Function of Nerves

Researchers have shown how an experimental drug might restore the function of nerves damaged in spinal cord injuries by preventing short circuits caused when tiny "potassium channels" in the fibers ...  > full story
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After Mastodons and Mammoths, a Transformed Landscape

Roughly 15,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, North America's vast assemblage of large animals -- including such iconic creatures as mammoths, mastodons, camels, horses, ground sloths and ...  > full story
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Engineers Use Aerospace Approach to Design Wave Energy System

The ocean is a potentially vast source of electric power, yet as engineers test new technologies for capturing it, the devices are plagued by battering storms, limited efficiency and the need to ...  > full story
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Rich Ore Deposits Linked to Ancient Atmosphere

Much of our planet's mineral wealth was deposited billions of years ago when Earth's chemical cycles were different from today's. Using geochemical clues from rocks nearly 3 billion years old, a group of scientists have ...  > full story
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Cigarettes Harbor Many Pathogenic Bacteria

Cigarettes are widely contaminated with bacteria, including some known to cause disease in people, concludes a new study conducted by an environmental health researcher and microbial ecologists. The research team describes the study ...  > full story
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Paleontologists Find Extinction Rates Higher in Open-Ocean Settings During Mass Extinctions

Researchers have uncovered a strikingly pattern for ancient mass extinctions: extinctions rates during mass extinctions were significantly higher in ...  > full story
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Scientists Crack Corn Code: Reference Genome of Maize, Most Important US Crop

A four-year, multi-institutional effort co-led by three Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory scientists culminated today in publication of a landmark series of papers in the journal Science revealing in ...  > full story
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Optical Properties of the Antarctic System and New Radiation Information

In a new study, measurements were made during three Austral summers to study the optical properties of the Antarctic system and to produce radiation information for additional modeling studies. The ...  > full story

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