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Plumage no sacrifice for peacocks

September 25, 2014
News
Peacocks are known for their long iridescent feathers which they use to attract a mate, but their display of love was also thought to be a sacrifice as it affected...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Zoology
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Meteorite points to life on Mars

September 24, 2014
News
A tiny fragment of Martian meteorite has added to the growing body of evidence that the red plant might have hosted life. Upon this meteorite, researchers found a cell-like structure...
Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Biophysics, Physics
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AMS show modern humans and Neanderthals overlapped

September 23, 2014
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Strong evidence that Neanderthals overlapped with modern humans for up to 5,400 years has been revealed using an improved accelerator mass spectrometry technique. Researchers from the University of Oxford dated...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Zoology
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Underestimation of dust threatens BICEP results

September 22, 2014
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Spinning dust grains have put a dampener on the celebrations that cosmologists have found faint signals of cosmic background radiation released a fraction of a second after the Big Bang.In...
Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Astrophysics, Physics
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Cheetah-bot’s successful test run

September 22, 2014
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Cheetahs are the fasted land mammal on Earth, capable of going zero to 60 miles per hour in a matter of seconds, and researchers at MIT have developed an algorithm...
Physics & Engineering
Computer Science
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Extremophile key to nuclear waste disposal

September 19, 2014
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A subterranean bacterium could solve the problem of how to dispose of nuclear waste say researchers at the University of Manchester. This is the first time a microbe capable of...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental
Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environmental Chemistry
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Splitting water based on nuclear spin

September 19, 2014
News
Separation of water based on the nuclear spin of individual molecules has been made possible thanks to what scientists are dubbing an electric prism. Water exists in two nuclear spin...
Chemistry
Analytical Chemistry, Chemistry
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Freshwater springs likely played role in early human evolution

September 18, 2014
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The ability to move and seek out new sources of groundwater in dry periods may have been pivotal to survival and evolution of the human species. By combining geological evidence...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Developmental Biology
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New threat to ozone layer

September 17, 2014
News
The Antarctic ozone hole is beginning to show signs of recovery, but a new threat is lurking suggests a report from the United Nations: “new” CFCs discovered in the atmosphere....
Earth & Environmental
Atmospheric Sciences, Earth & Environmental Sciences
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Autism therapy could eliminate symptoms

September 16, 2014
News
A new therapy aimed at treating infants as young as 6-months-old who exhibit signs of autism has shown promising results.  The treatment – pioneered by the University of California Davis...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals
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Alice returns results

September 15, 2014
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Alice, the miniature ultra-violet imaging spectrograph aboard the Rosetta orbiter, has successfully relayed its first science data from Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko – it’s darker than expected. NASA’s Alice has been mapping...
Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Astrophysics, Physics
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Maglev to allow manufacture using soft materials

September 12, 2014
News
A system which allows objects to float in suspension could aid manufacturing with fragile materials say scientists – and it uses magnets similar to those found in the fridge. Harvard...
Materials
Materials Science
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