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  Remembering the Race for the Secret of Life

  April 24, 2013 — On 25 April 1953, three seminal papers describing the structure of DNA were published in Nature. Sixty years later, Genome Biology is publishing an in depth interview with one of the two surviving ... > full story
• Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
  Astronomy
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  Hubble Captures Comet ISON

  April 23, 2013 — When the Hubble picture of ISON was taken on April 10, the comet was slightly closer than Jupiter's orbit at a distance of 386 million miles from the Sun. Hubble photographed a jet blasting dust ... > full story
• New Species
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  Nature
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  A Beautiful Species of Tree Iguana Redescribed 179 Years After Its Discovery

  April 23, 2013 — The tree iguana, Liolaemus nigromaculatus, was the second species of the genus Liolaemus to be described and the nominal species of the group nigromaculatus. However, since its description, no ... > full story
• NASA
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  NASA Successfully Launches Three Smartphone Satellites

  April 22, 2013 — Three smartphones destined to become low-cost satellites rode to space April 21, 2013 aboard the maiden flight of Orbital Science Corp.'s Antares rocket from NASA's Wallops Island Flight Facility in ... > full story
• Forensic Research
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  Hypertension
  Blood Clots
   
  

  Engineer Working to Put More Science Behind Bloodstain Pattern Analysis

  April 18, 2013 — Scientists are working to put more fluid dynamics behind the bloodstain pattern analysis used at crime scenes. They are developing instruments and methods to produce, study and analyze ... > full story
• Artificial Intelligence
  Robotics
  Perception
  Robotics Research
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  Hacking
   

  Helpful for Robotics: Brain Uses Old Information for New Movements

  April 18, 2013 — Information from the senses has an important influence on how we move. For instance, you can see and feel when a mug is filled with hot coffee, and you lift it in a different way than if the mug were ... > full story
• Stars
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  SOFIA Observations Reveal a Surprise in Massive Star Formation

  April 17, 2013 — Researchers using the airborne Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) have captured the most detailed mid-infrared images yet of a massive star condensing within a dense cocoon of ... > full story
• Lung Disease
  Lymphoma
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  Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
  Today's Healthcare
   

  Radiation Dose Level Affects Size of Lesions Seen on Chest CT Images

  April 17, 2013 — The estimated size of chest lymph nodes and lung nodules seen on CT images varies significantly when the same nodes or nodules are examined using lower versus higher doses of radiation, a new study ... > full story
• Intelligence
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  Brain Injury
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  Memory, the Adolescent Brain and Lying: The Limits of Neuroscientific Evidence in the Law

  April 16, 2013 — Brain scans are increasingly able to reveal whether you believe you remember some person or event in your life. In a new study, researchers used fMRI brain scans to detect whether a person recognized ... > full story
• Geography
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  Global Warming
  Climate
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  New Generation Soil Property Maps for Africa

  April 16, 2013 — A new type of soil property maps for Africa has been launched by ISRIC − World Soil Information in Wageningen, Netherlands. The maps are freely ... > full story

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