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Self-Fertilizing Plants Contribute to Their Own Demise
June 10, 2013 — Many plants are self-fertilizing, meaning they act as both mother and father to their own seeds. This strategy -- known as selfing -- guarantees reproduction but, over time, leads to reduced ... > full story -
Leakage of Carbon from Land to Rivers, Lakes, Estuaries and Coastal Regions Revealed
June 10, 2013 — When carbon is emitted by human activities into the atmosphere it is generally thought that about half remains in the atmosphere and the remainder is stored in the oceans and on land. New research ... > full story -
Catching Individual Molecules in a Million With Optical Antennas Inside Nano-Boxes
June 10, 2013 — Detecting one individual biomolecule amongst millions of other neighboring molecules has been technically impossible until now. Scientists have now devised the smallest optical device capable of ... > full story -
British Butterfly Desperate for Warm Weather This Summer
June 10, 2013 — Butterflies are extremely sensitive to changes in temperature, and new research has revealed that when summer weather turns bad the silver-spotted skipper battles for ... > full story -
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How Archaea Might Find Their Food: Sensor Protein Characterized
June 10, 2013 — Delicious dimethyl sulphide. The microorganism Methanosarcina acetivorans lives off everything it can metabolize into methane. How it finds its sources of energy, is not yet clear. Scientists have ... > full story -
Discovery May Lead to New Treatments for Jaundice
June 10, 2013 — Helping to protect newborns and older patients against more severe effects of jaundice is the hope of researchers who have shown how a liver enzyme protects cells from damage caused by the condition. ... > full story -
Potentially 'Catastrophic' Changes Underway in Canada's Northern Mackenzie River Basin
June 10, 2013 — Canada's Mackenzie River basin -- among the world's most important major ecosystems -- is poorly studied, inadequately monitored, and at serious risk due to climate change and resource exploitation, ... > full story -
New Theory Proposes Solution to Long-Running Debate as to How Stable the Earth System Is
June 10, 2013 — Researchers have proposed an answer to the long-running debate as to how stable the Earth system is. Earth, with its core-driven magnetic field, oceans of liquid water, dynamic climate and abundant ... > full story -
Do Antidepressants Impair the Ability to Extinguish Fear?
June 10, 2013 — Common antidepressant medications may impair a form of learning that is important clinically. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, commonly called SSRIs, are a class of antidepressant widely used ... > full story -
Nanotechnology and the Secret Life of Knots
June 10, 2013 — Nanotechnologies require a detailed knowledge of the molecular state. For instance, it is useful to know when and how a generic polymer, a long chain of polymers (chain of beads), knots. The ... > full story
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