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Baby Dino Fossil: So Intact It's Lifelike
An extremely well preserved fossil of a baby dinosaur appears to hop out of the rock in which it was fossilized.
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Oldest Known Early Human DNA Recovered
As far as mountains go, the Atapuerca Mountains in Spain aren't much to look at. In many places, they amount simply to scrub-covered, limestone hills rather than towering, craggy heights. If the mighty Rockies of North America could speak, they might very well be scoffing.
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German scientists develop warm LED
A German team has developed a way to give LEDs, which shed bluish or cold light, a warm tone. It could revolutionize highly efficient LEDs - and it's gained them a science prize nomination.
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Our Universe Could be One Of Billions, Paper Explains
Scientists believe they have found the first evidence that other universes exist after analyzing the data gathered by the European Space Agency's Planck spacecraft. Theories that our universe could...
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HIV returns in two patients after bone marrow transplant
HIV has returned in two patients whom doctors hoped had been cured of the virus following bone marrow transplants, the Boston researcher who treated them said.
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Vast Freshwater Reserves Discovered Under Ocean Floor, Scientists Say
Massive reserves of “freshwater” are buried beneath the seabed on continental shelves around the world, including off Australia, China, North America and South Africa. This is the conclusion of a new study by a team of Australian scientists that appears in this week’s issue of the journal, Nature.
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Newly discovered greenhouse gas '7,000 times more powerful than CO2'
A new greenhouse gas that is 7,000 times more powerful than carbon dioxide at warming the Earth has been discovered by researchers in Toronto. The newly discovered gas, perfluorotributylamine (PFTBA), has been in use by the electrical industry since the mid-20th century.
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Scientists Discover a Jewel at the Heart of Quantum Physics
Physicists have discovered a jewel-shaped geometric object that challenges the notion that space, time and particles are fundamental constituents of nature.
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Scientists discover double meaning in genetic code
Scientists have discovered a second code hiding within DNA. This second code contains information that changes how scientists read the instructions contained in DNA and interpret mutations to make sense of health and disease.
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200-Kilometer-High Jets of Water Discovered Shooting From Europa
Jupiter’s icy moon Europa may be showing us its insides. Data from the Hubble space telescope suggests that enormous jets of water more than 200 kilometers tall (roughly twice as high as Earth’s atmosphere) may be spurting intermittently from the moon’s surface.
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Chemical Surprise Found in Crab Nebula
Astronomers have discovered a rare chemical pairing in the remains of an exploded star, called the Crab nebula. A gas thought to be a loner has made a "friend," linking up with a chemical partner to form a molecule. The discovery, made with the Herschel space observatory, a European Space Agency mission with important NASA contributions, will help scientists better understand supernovas, the violent deaths of massive stars.
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Don't Be Duped By 'Duon' DNA Hype
With today’s headlines hyping “Second Code Uncovered Inside the DNA,” you might think that scientists are running around in circles in their labs, tearing out their hair, and screaming, “Crick, you loser!” But the real reaction of scientists to these headlines is more along the lines of this Twitter conversation among several scientific experts and science writers. They have good reason to be snarky.
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Most complete Neanderthal genome shows inbreeding
The most complete sequence to date of the Neanderthal genome suggests they inbred with their family members while occasionally interbreeding with modern humans, a new study has found. The study, that used DNA extracted from a woman's toe bone that...
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Toe Fossil Provides Complete Neanderthal Genome
Scientists say the accuracy of the new genome is of similar quality to sequencing the DNA of a living person.
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Theorists predict new state of quantum matter may have big impact on electronics
Constantly losing energy is something we deal with in everything we do. If you stop pedaling a bike, it gradually slows; if you let off the gas, your car also slows. As these vehicles move, they also generate heat from friction. Electronics encounter a similar effect as groups of electrons carry information ...
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Life on other planets could be far more widespread, study finds
(Phys.org) —Earth-sized planets can support life at least ten times further away from stars than previously thought, according to academics at the University of Aberdeen.
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Deepest galaxy cluster ever pictured
The "deepest ever" image of a group of galaxies - "Pandora's Cluster" - has been captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Ancient 'fig wasp' lived tens of millions of years before figs
A 115-million-year-old fossilized wasp from northeast Brazil presents a baffling puzzle to researchers. The wasp's ovipositor, the organ through which it lays its eggs, looks a lot like those of present-day wasps that lay their eggs in figs. The problem, researchers say, is that figs arose about 65 million years after this wasp was alive
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Scientists solve 40-year mystery of how sodium controls opioid brain signaling
Scientists have discovered how the element sodium influences the signaling of a major class of brain cell receptors, known as opioid receptors. The discovery, from The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) and the University of North Carolina (UNC), suggests new therapeutic approaches to a host of brain-related medical conditions.
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How the discovery of a 460-year-old English shilling in B.C. could help rewrite the early history of Canada
The discovery of a 16th-century coin buried in clay on a Vancouver Island shoreline is rekindling interest in a controversial theory that English explorer Sir Francis Drake made a secret voyage to Canada’s Pacific Coast in 1579 — two centuries before Spanish sailors and the legendary British navigator Capt. James Cook made their famous “first” European visits to the future British Columbia in the 1770s.
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