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Baby Owls Spotted Sleeping Like Baby Humans
Baby birds have sleep
patterns similar to baby
mammals, and their sleep
changes in the same way when
growing up. This is what a
biologists found out working
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Astronomers Discovery a Graveyard for Comets
Astronomers have discovered
a graveyard of comets. The
researchers describe how
some of these objects,
inactive for millions of
years, have returned to life
leading them to name the
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Genetics: More Than Merely a Mutated Gene
If two women have the same
genetic mutation that puts
them at higher-than-average
risk for a disease such as
breast cancer, why does only
one develop the disease?
Genetic scientists have
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Monster Galaxies Lose Their Appetite With Age
Our universe is filled with
gobs of galaxies, bound
together by gravity into
larger families called
clusters. Lying at the heart
of most clusters is a
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Stimulating Brain Cells Can Make False Memories
August 1, 2013 — By activating a subset of brain cells in mice, researchers changed the way the animals remembered a particular setting. To determine if they could alter the way a mouse remembered a setting by ... > full story -
Cool Heads Likely Won't Prevail in a Hotter, Wetter World: Climate Change Will Likely Exacerbate Violence
August 1, 2013 — Researchers report that even slight spikes in temperature and precipitation greatly increase the risk of personal and civil violence, and suggest that more human conflict is a likely outcome of ... > full story -
Climate Change Occurring Ten Times Faster Than at Any Time in Past 65 Million Years
August 1, 2013 — Not only is the planet undergoing one of the largest climate changes in the past 65 million years, scientists report that it's occurring at a rate 10 times faster than any change in that period. ... > full story -
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New Water Splitting Technique Efficiently Produces Hydrogen Fuel
August 1, 2013 — Radically new technique uses the power of sunlight to efficiently split water into its components of hydrogen and oxygen, paving the way for the broad use of hydrogen as a clean, green ... > full story -
As Climate, Disease Links Become Clearer, Study Highlights Need to Forecast Future Shifts
August 1, 2013 — Climate change is affecting the spread of infectious diseases worldwide, according to an international team of leading disease ecologists, with serious impacts to human health and biodiversity ... > full story -
Temperature Alters Population Dynamics of Common Plant Pests
August 1, 2013 — Temperature-driven changes alter outbreak patterns of tea tortrix -- an insect pest -- and may shed light on how temperature influences whether insects emerge as cohesive cohorts or continuously, ... > full story -
'Soft' Approach Leads to Revolutionary Energy Storage: Graphene-Based Supercapacitors
August 1, 2013 — Researchers have brought next generation energy storage closer with an engineering first -- a graphene-based device that is compact, yet lasts as long as a conventional ... > full story -
Arctic Sea-Ice Loss Has Widespread Effects on Wildlife
August 1, 2013 — How the Arctic wildlife and humans will be affected by the continued melting of Arctic sea ice is explored in a review article in the journal Science, by an international team of scientists. The ... > full story -
Long-Sought Method to Efficiently Make Complex Anticancer Compound Developed
August 1, 2013 — Scientists have achieved the first efficient chemical synthesis of ingenol, a highly complex, plant-derived compound that has long been of interest to drug developers for its anticancer potential. ... > full story -
The When and Where of the Y: Research on Y Chromosomes Uncovers New Clues About Human Ancestry
August 1, 2013 — Using advanced analysis of DNA from Y chromosomes from men all over the world, scientists have shed new light on the mystery of when and how a few early human ancestors started to give rise to the ... > full storyMore:
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