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Thursday, November 26, 2009

Bioengineers Succeed in Producing Plastics Without the Use of Fossil Fuels

Scientists have succeeded in producing the polymers used for everyday plastics through bioengineering, rather than through the use of fossil fuel based chemicals, heralding the ...  > full story
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NASA Satellites Detect Unexpected Ice Loss in East Antarctica

Using gravity measurement data from the NASA/German Aerospace Center's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) mission, a team of scientists from the University of Texas at Austin ...  > full story
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When You Eat May Be Just as Vital to Your Health as What You Eat

When you eat may be just as vital to your health as what you eat, found researchers. New experiments in mice revealed that the daily waxing and waning of thousands of genes in the liver -- the body's ...  > full story
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Evolution of Highly Toxic Box Jellyfish Unraveled

With thousands of stinging cells that can emit deadly venom from tentacles that can reach ten feet in length, the 50 or so species of box jellyfish have long been of interest to scientists and to the public. Yet little has been known ...  > full story
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'Safety Valve' Protects Photosynthesis from Too Much Light

Photosynthetic organisms need to cope with a wide range of light intensities, which can change over timescales of seconds to minutes. Too much light can damage the photosynthetic machinery and cause ...  > full story
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Cosmic 'Dig' Reveals Vestiges of the Milky Way's Building Blocks

Peering through the thick dust clouds of our galaxy's "bulge" (the myriads of stars surrounding its center), astronomers have unveiled an unusual mix of stars in the stellar grouping known as ...  > full story
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Opposites Attract: Monkeys Choose Mating Partners With Different Genes

The world's largest species of monkey "chooses" mates with genes that are different from their own to guarantee healthy and strong offspring, according to a new research study. ...  > full story
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First Black Holes May Have Incubated in Giant, Starlike Cocoons

The first large black holes in the universe likely formed and grew deep inside gigantic, starlike cocoons that smothered their powerful X-ray radiation and prevented surrounding gases from ...  > full story
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Hydrogen-Economy on the Way? New Hydrogen-Storage Method Discovered

Scientists have found for the first time that high pressure can be used to make a unique hydrogen-storage material. The discovery paves the way for a new approach to the hydrogen-storage ...  > full story
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Violent World of Raptors Explored

A journey that started with a box of bird feet carried three graduate students into the gruesome world of raptors. Normally focused on dinosaurs, the students compared the claws and killing methods of four types of ...  > full story
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Cause Behind the Characteristic Shape of a Long Leaf Revealed

Applied mathematicians dissected the morphology of the plantain lily, a characteristic long leaf with a saddle-like arc midsection and closely packed ripples along the edges. The simple cause of the ...  > full story

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