 CoRoT discovery challenges the definition of extra-solar planets 2 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
(PhysOrg.com) -- The CoRoT satellite has discovered a planet-sized object so exotic that astronomers are unsure whether to call it a planet. The object, named CoRoT-Exo-3b, is approximately the same size as ... | |
 Deepest living fishes caught on camera for the first time 3 hours ago | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists filming in one of the world's deepest ocean trenches have found groups of highly sociable snailfish swarming over their bait, nearly five miles (7700 metres) beneath the surface ... | |
 COROT discovery stirs exoplanet classification rethink 3 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
(PhysOrg.com) -- COROT has discovered a massive planet-sized object orbiting its parent star closely, unlike anything ever spotted before. It is so exotic, that scientists are unsure as to whether this oddity ... | |
 New vaccines may not reduce TB incidence 3 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(PhysOrg.com) -- Despite the potential of new vaccines to prevent TB, new research shows that the removal of one strain of TB can allow a previously suppressed strain to succeed. Consequently, a vaccination ... | |
Narcissistic people most likely to emerge as leaders 3 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
When a group is without a leader, you can often count on a narcissist to take charge, a new study suggests. Researchers found that people who score high in narcissism tend to take control of leaderless groups. Narcissism ... | |
Psychologists create fake proof personality test 3 hours ago | User rating: 3.2 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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Psychologists from the University of Toronto have developed a personality inventory that can predict who will excel in academic and creative domains, even when respondents are trying hard to fake their answers. | |
Scientists probe mechanism of asymmetry in meiotic cell division 3 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
The Stowers Institute's Rong Li Lab has characterized a mechanism that allows for asymmetrical cell division during meiosis in oocytes. By tracking chromosome movement in live mouse oocytes, the team discovered that chromosomes ... | |
Post-term pregnancies risk infant's life and health, studies show 3 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Infants born more than one week past their due dates have a higher risk of both impaired health and death, according to two new studies by authors from the University of California's San Francisco and Berkeley campuses. | |
 Broken symmetry: Answering the solace of quantum 3 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | User comments: 2
Humans like the comfort of symmetry -- the identical image in the mirror, the matching wings of the baroque mansion, the equal numbers in opposing football teams. | |
'Mail Goggles' might prevent e-mail regrets 3 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- Here's the scenario: It's Friday night, and what began as an innocent happy-hour margarita morphed into a few pitchers. After all, those tacos were salty. | |
Ads to the rescue as distraction from root canals 3 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
(AP) -- Talk about your captive audience. Advertising is coming to the dentist's chair in the form of personal video goggles that patients wear while getting their cleaning or root canal. | |
 Atomic-resolution views suggest function of enzyme that regulates light-detecting signals in eye 4 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
An atomic-resolution view of an enzyme found only in the eye has given researchers at the University of Washington (UW) clues about how this enzyme, essential to vision, is activated. The enzyme, phosphodiesterase ... | |
Study shows how fatty foods curb hunger 6 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Fatty foods may not be the healthiest diet choice, but those rich in unsaturated fats – such as avocados, nuts and olive oil – have been found to play a pivotal role in sending this important message to your brain: stop eating, ... | |
Study provides insight on a common heart rhythm disorder 6 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
University of Iowa researchers and colleagues in France have identified a gene variant that causes a potentially fatal human heart rhythm disorder called sinus node disease. Also known as "sick sinus syndrome," the disease ... | |
Researchers turn cancer friend into cancer foe 6 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Burnham Institute for Medical Research today announced that scientists have created a peptide that binds to Bcl-2, a protein that protects cancer cells from programmed cell death, and converts it into a cancer cell killer. ... | |
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