 Whale playground offers glimpse into Russia's melting Arctic 22 hours ago | User rating: 3.2 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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A young whale pokes its melon-shaped head into the cool morning air near this remote island, a sign its herd is thriving despite mounting threats in Russia's melting Arctic. | |
Researchers unravel key mechanism of cellular damage in aging and disease 19 hours ago | User rating: 5 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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Researchers have taken a first snapshot of how a class of highly reactive molecules inflicts cellular damage as part of aging, heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes, kidney disease and Alzheimer's disease to name a few. ... | |
Material may help autos turn heat into electricity 17 hours ago | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 22 vote(s)
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Researchers have invented a new material that will make cars even more efficient, by converting heat wasted through engine exhaust into electricity. In the current issue of the journal Science, they describe a material ... | |
Study: No gender differences in math performance 17 hours ago | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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We've all heard it. Many of us in fact believe it. Girls just aren't as good at math as boys. But is it true? After sifting through mountains of data - including SAT results and math scores from 7 million students who were ... | |
Why play a losing game? Study uncovers why low-income people buy lottery tickets 19 hours ago | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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Although state lotteries, on average, return just 53 cents for every dollar spent on a ticket, people continue to pour money into them — especially low-income people, who spend a larger percentage of their incomes on lottery ... | |
 Hackers get hold of critical Internet flaw (Update) 13 hours ago | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Internet security researchers on Thursday warned that hackers have caught on to a "critical" flaw that lets them control traffic on the Internet. | |
 Scientists solve 30-year-old aurora borealis mystery 17 hours ago | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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UCLA space scientists and colleagues have identified the mechanism that triggers substorms in space; wreaks havoc on satellites, power grids and communications systems; and leads to the explosive release of ... | |
 Unknown insects found in 110-million-year-old amber in Spain 15 hours ago | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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The remains of several unknown insect species which became extinct long before dinosaurs stopped roaming the earth have been discovered in pieces of 110-million-year-old amber found in Spain, researchers said ... | |
Nanoparticles Detect Telomerase Activity 15 hours ago | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Telomerase, an enzyme that prevents chromosomes from shortening when they divide, is widely suspected of playing a key role in making cancer cells immortal. Though researchers have developed a variety of methods for measuring ... | |
The Quiet Explosion: Object intermediate between normal supernovae and gamma-ray bursts found 17 hours ago | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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A European-led team of astronomers are providing hints that a recent supernova may not be as normal as initially thought. Instead, the star that exploded is now understood to have collapsed into a black hole, producing a ... | |
 Lenses galore -- Hubble finds large sample of very distant galaxies 19 hours ago | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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By using the gravitational magnification from six massive lensing galaxy clusters, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has provided scientists with the largest sample of very distant galaxies seen to date. ... | |
Creators of Scrabble knockoff on Facebook sued 16 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
(AP) -- T-R-O-U-B-L-E could loom for a Scrabble knockoff that has become one of the most popular activities on Facebook. | |
Plant steroids offer new paradigm for how hormones work 17 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
Steroids bulk up plants just as they do human athletes, but the playbook of molecular signals that tell the genes to boost growth and development in plant cells is far more complicated than in human and animal cells. A new ... | |
NASA Satellites Discover What Powers Northern Lights 17 hours ago | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers using a fleet of five NASA satellites have discovered that explosions of magnetic energy a third of the way to the moon power substorms that cause sudden brightenings and rapid movements of the ... | |
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