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Thursday, January 8, 2009

Half-baked Asteroids Have Earth-like Crust

Asteroids are hunks of rock that orbit in the outer reaches of space, and scientists have generally assumed that their small size limited the types of rock that could form in their crusts. But two newly discovered ...  > full story
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Ancient Odor-detecting Mechanism In Insects Discovered

A newly discovered family of receptors in the fly nose fills in a missing piece of the insect olfactory system -- and also suggests a new role for a class of receptors long believed to be ...  > full story
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Evolution In Action: Our Antibodies Take 'Evolutionary Leaps' To Fight Microbes

With cold and flu season in full swing, the fact that viruses and bacteria rapidly evolve is apparent with every sneeze, sniffle and cough. A new report ...  > full story
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NASA Space Balloon Mission Tunes In To Cosmic Radio Mystery

Listening to the early universe just got harder. Astronomers have discovered cosmic radio noise that booms six times louder than expected. ...  > full story
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Spookfish Uses Mirrors For Eyes

A remarkable new discovery shows the four-eyed spookfish to be the first vertebrate ever found to use mirrors, rather than lenses, to focus light in its eyes. ...  > full story
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Hubble Finds Stars That Go 'Ballistic'

Even some stars go ballistic, racing through interstellar space like bullets and tearing through clouds of gas. ...  > full story
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Lunar Rock-Like Material May Someday House Moon Colonies

Dwellings in colonies on the moon one day may be built with new, highly durable bricks developed by students from the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech. ...  > full story
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Testes Stem Cells Can Change Into Other Body Tissues

Scientists have succeeded in isolating stem cells from human testes. The cells bear a striking resemblance to embryonic stem cells -- they can differentiate into each of the three main types of tissues of the body -- but the ...  > full story
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Black Holes Lead Galaxy Growth

Peering deep into the early universe, astronomers may have solved a longstanding cosmic chicken-and-egg problem -- which forms first -- galaxies or the black holes at their cores? ...  > full story
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Levitation At Microscopic Scale Could Lead To Nanomechanical Devices Based On Quantum Levitation

Magicians have long created the illusion of levitating objects in the air. Now researchers have actually levitated an object, suspending it without the need for ...  > full story
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