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Alternative Way to Explain Life's Complexity Proposed
April 12, 2013 Evolution skeptics argue that some biological structures, like the eye, are too complex for natural selection to explain. Biologists have proposed various ways that so-called "irreducibly complex" ... > full story -
Carbon Dioxide Removal Can Lower Costs of Climate Protection
April 12, 2013 Directly removing carbon dioxide from the air has the potential to alter the costs of climate change mitigation. It could allow prolonging greenhouse-gas emissions from sectors like transport that ... > full story -
New Technique Measures Evaporation Globally
April 11, 2013 Researchers have developed the first method to map evaporation globally using weather stations, which will help scientists evaluate water resource management, assess recent trends of evaporation ... > full story -
Mathematical Method for Simulating the Evolution of the Solar System Improved
April 11, 2013 In order to improve a simulation designed to study the evolution of the solar system through time, numerical mathematical methods have been developed. Specifically, the methods proposed enable the ... > full story -
Subconscious Mental Categories Help Brain Sort Through Everyday Experiences
April 10, 2013 Researchers found that the brain breaks experiences into the "events," or related groups that help us mentally organize the day's many situations, using subconscious mental categories it creates. ... > full story -
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Young Children Have Grammar and Chimpanzees Don't
April 10, 2013 A new study has shown that children as young as two understand basic grammar rules when they first learn to speak and are not simply imitating adults. The study also applied the same statistical ... > full story -
Plasmonics: A Flexible Bridge Between Two Worlds
April 10, 2013 A novel material shows its credentials to facilitate the integration of photonic and electronic components in practical ... > full story -
Dark Lightning: Are Airplane Passengers Exposed to Radiation from Intense Bursts of Gamma-Rays from Thunderclouds?
April 10, 2013 Scientists have known for almost a decade that thunderstorms are capable of generating brief but powerful bursts of gamma-rays called terrestrial gamma-ray flashes, or TGFs. Because they can ... > full story -
Snowflakes Falling on Cameras: What Snow Looks Like in Midair
April 10, 2013 University of Utah researchers developed a high-speed camera system that spent the past two winters photographing snowflakes in 3-D as they fell – and they don’t look much like those ... > full story -
New Chart Shows the Entire Topography of the Antarctic Seafloor in Detail for the First Time
April 9, 2013 Reliable information on the depth and floor structure of the Southern Ocean has so far been available for only few coastal regions of the Antarctic. Scientists have for the first time succeeded in ... > full story
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