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What if you saw something that rocked your world ... and you didn't notice? [Cognitive Daily] - 2 hours ago
If you're a regular read of Cognitive Daily, you're, relatively accustomed to seeing surprising...
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Humans are naughty & nice by nature [Gene Expression] - 5 hours ago
We May Be Born With an Urge to Help: What is the essence of human nature? Flawed, say many...
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"Supply Side Lite" and the Psychology of the New Normal [Mike the Mad Biologist] - 8 hours ago
Over at Underbelly, Buce, in commenting on Bruce Bartlett's new book, makes a point about what he...
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ScienceOnline2010 - introducing the participants [A Blog Around The Clock] - 8 hours ago
As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6...
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How to lose friends and alienate people by disrupting the brain [Not Exactly Rocket Science] - 9 hours ago
Oscar Wilde once said, "One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything,...
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Creating God in one's own image [Not Exactly Rocket Science] - yesterday
For many religious people, the popular question "What would Jesus do?" is essentially the same as...
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Super Earths May Be Superior at Fostering Life - 3 hours ago
Super Earths are named for their size, but these planets - which range from about 2 to 10 Earth...
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Hubble Photographs Billowing Clouds of Cosmic Dust - 3 hours ago
A new Hubble image reveals mounds of dust in a star-forming nebula.
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Space Station Crew Lands In Kazakhstan - 3 hours ago
A Canadian, a Russian and a Belgian astronaut have left the International Space Station to land...
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Russian Satellite Debris Zooms by Space Station - 3 hours ago
A tiny piece of a defunct Russian satellite zipped by the International Space Station Tuesday, but...
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Another Mars Orbiter Goes Into Safe Mode - 3 hours ago
NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter has memory glitch, goes into safe mode.
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Clue Found to Origin of Cosmic Misfits - 3 hours ago
Spitzer Space Telescope spots youngest possible brown dwarf pair yet found.
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Monster Waves on the Sun are Real
Data from NASA's STEREO spacecraft have confirmed the stunning reality of monster waves on the sun...
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SOFIA Seeks Secrets of Planetary Birth
Imagine cutting retractable doors in the side of a 747 airliner, installing a 17-ton telescope, and...
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LCROSS Finds Water on the Moon
The argument that the Moon is a dry, desolate place no longer holds water. At a press conference...
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Can Spirit be Freed?
On Monday, NASA will begin transmitting commands to its Mars exploration rover Spirit as part of an...
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The 2009 Leonid Meteor Shower
The 2009 Leonid meteor shower peaks on Nov. 17th with a sprinkling of meteors over North America and...
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Isolation and Purification of <em>Drosophila</em> Peripheral Neurons by Magnetic Bead Sorting - 4 hours ago
In this video-article we present a method for the isolation and purification of Drosophila...
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Chick <em>ex ovo</em> Culture and <em>ex ovo</em> CAM Assay: How it Really Works - yesterday
The chick chorioallantoic membrane (CAM) is a unique, naturally immunodeficient supportive culture...
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Assembly, Tuning and Use of an Apertureless Near Field Infrared Microscope for Protein Imaging - 6 days ago
The assembly of a nearfield infrared microscope for imaging protein aggregates is described.
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Aortic Ring Assay - 1 week ago
Angiogenesis, the sprouting of blood vessels from pre-existing vasculature, is associated with both...
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Methods for the Study of the Zebrafish Maxillary Barbel - 1 week ago
The zebrafish maxillary barbel is an integumentary sense organ containing ectodermal, mesodermal and...
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Combining Peripheral Nerve Grafting and Matrix Modulation to Repair the Injured Rat Spinal Cord - 1 week ago
Traumatic injury to the spinal cord disrupts communication with the brain. To restore lost...
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Updated -- World of Change: Antarctic Ozone Hole
We have added the image for the 2009 ozone hole maximum to this series of satellite images showing...
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Dust over Southeast Australia
A tan plume of dust swept over southeastern Australia on November 29, 2009.
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Springtime Heatwave in Southeastern Australia
Land surface temperatures were far above average in southeastern Australia during a springtime...
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Dust over Southeast Australia
A tan plume of dust swept over southeastern Australia on November 29, 2009.
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Soufriere Hills Volcano Resumes Activity
Activity at Montserrat’s Soufriére Hills Volcano continues to ebb and flow.
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Tropical Storm Nida
Acquired November 30, 2009, this true-color image shows Typhoon Nida spanning hundreds of kilometers...
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Reopening the case of the female orgasm - 45 minutes ago
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WHO's New Guidelines on HIV Care Call for Earlier Treatment - 2 hours ago
The World Health Organization is now advising health care professionals to start patients with HIV...
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Will Electronic Medical Records Improve Health Care? - 3 hours ago
Electronic health records (EHRs) have received a lot of attention since the Obama administration...
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Poisoned Water Haunts Bhopal 25 Years After Chemical Accident - 3 hours ago
Twenty-five years after a toxic gas cloud from a pesticide factory killed thousands of people in...
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Fear of Fear Itself - 4 hours ago
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Chinese kids battle AIDS - 6 hours ago
Kids with AIDS in China's rural areas struggle with stigma and treatment costs.
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Too much physical activity may lead to arthritis, study suggests
Middle-aged men and women who engage in high levels of physical activity may be unknowingly causing...
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Sugary cola drinks linked to higher risk of gestational diabetes
Researchers have found for the first time that drinking more than 5 servings of sugar- sweetened...
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Clinical trials launched for treating most aggressive brain tumor with personalized cell vaccines
Researchers have launched a series of clinical trials in order to assess the efficacy of an...
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CDC Confirms Four New Cases of Oseltamivir (Tamiflu)-Resistant H1N1
Tests performed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at the request of infectious...
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Data from outer space open new frontiers for researchers
The latest data delivered back to Earth by the Herschel Space Observatory -- launched in May by the...
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Facebook profiles capture true personality, according to new psychology research
Online social networks such as Facebook are being used to express and communicate real personality,...
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Is Loneliness Contagious? - 4 hours ago
Feelings of loneliness can spread through social networks like a common cold.
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Avalanche Beacon in a Cell Phone - 6 hours ago
For those of us living in the Northern Hemisphere, winter is closing in. And for fans of extreme...
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World AIDS Day Warning on HIV Transmission - 6 hours ago
Heterosexual contact has become the chief transmission route for HIV infection.
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Bacteria Pick Prime Human Body Parts - 7 hours ago
Learning how our personal microbial communities live could help solve skin disorders.
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Space Station Crew Returns to Earth - 8 hours ago
Only one astronaut and one cosmonaut are left aboard the International Space Station.
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Protecting Our Smarter Grid From Bullies - 10 hours ago
Contrary to what you might have heard, our power grid isn't dumber than a bag of hammers. Smart grid...
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The Lips Don't Lie - 19 hours ago
Clues to detecting deception.
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How to Seduce a Lover - 19 hours ago
A practical guide to body language and seduction. ...
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Human Lie Detector - 19 hours ago
Ferreting out the liars.
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It's Not What You Say - 19 hours ago
How you say it matters more.
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When Does a Woman Become “Older”? - yesterday
What real people say about older woman/younger man romance ...
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Sugar Mamas and Boy Toys - yesterday
The new cougar dating
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[Editorial] Disability: beyond the medical model - 5 days ago
6 months ago, 13-year-old Yeng Wally fell out of a tree while gathering mangoes. She fractured her...
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[Editorial] Can malaria be eliminated? - 5 days ago
At the UK Academy of Medical Sciences' annual international health lecture last week, Nicholas White...
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[Editorial] Baying for a flexible drug price - 5 days ago
If you are a patient with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma who is not suitable for surgery, the...
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[Comment] Key concepts in disability - 5 days ago
Debates have raged within the fields of philosophy, health, and the social sciences about what...
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[Comment] Health care and the UN Disability Rights Convention - 5 days ago
People with disabilities can be healthy. Yet too often they are excluded from general health care by...
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[Comment] Intellectual disability: between disability and clinical nosology - 5 days ago
Intellectual disability (identified as mental retardation in the International Classification of...
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The Ecologist - The Open Ground (20/06/2009)
Conservation event organised by Conservation Today - a news & opinions website run by postgraduate...
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The Ecologist - The Open Ground (20/06/2009)
The Open Ground is a conservation event organised by Conservation Today, a news and opinions website...
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The Ecologist - New Ecologist website launches at 12 noon on 19th June (18/06/2009)
A fantastic and vastly improved website replaces the magazine from 19 June at 12 noon.
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The Ecologist - New Ecologist website launches at 12 noon (BST) on Friday 19 June (18/06/2009)
We are in the process of transferring to the new website. Please note that it can take 24 - 48 hours...
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The Ecologist - Two Degrees Festival: art, activisim and the global climate emergency (16/06/2009)
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This Week in Science
Revealing the RNA World? | “Haploid Human” | Simply Mycoplasma | Crystal Growing Kit | Moving Cold...
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Editors' Choice
Astronomy: Unproductive Mergers | Chemistry: Fluorine Diverted | Ecology: Intrinsic Rhythms | Cell...
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Random Samples
How's Your Gaydar? | In Search of Darkness | Sclerotic Egyptians | Mustiness Marker
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[Editorial] On Incentives for Innovation
Author: Bruce Alberts
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[News of the Week] Biotechnology: Bankruptcy Won't Stop deCODE, Says Its Founder, Stefánsson
deCODE genetics Inc. filed for bankruptcy last week, but the company will continue operations with a...
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[News of the Week] Fusion: Schedule Concerns Delay ITER's Go-Ahead
The scientific and engineering team building the ITER fusion reactor failed to win an expected...
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Kant's Philosophy on Aesthetics Explained Through Comic Book Art [Philosophy In Comics] - 33 minutes ago
Want to understand the works of German philosopher Immanuel Kant but don't have the time to slog...
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Spooky Buttons, Balloons, and Santa Dominate Animation Nominations [Annie Awards] - 1 hour ago
Stop-motion animation edged out computer-generated effects in this year's Annie Award nominations,...
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You're Rich! In Reputation, Anyway. The Whuffie Bank Is Here At Last. [Whuffie Bank] - 1 hour ago
If you wished you could live off your sterling reputation, like the people in Cory Doctorow's Down...
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The Art of the Space Race [Defense] - 1 hour ago
Over at Berg London, Megan Prelinger has an amazing essay about the design of advertisements for...
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Four New Iron Man Images Show The Softer Side Of Whiplash [Iron Man 2] - 2 hours ago
Check out the bespectacled Mickey Rourke, getting all pensive over his super power suit. We're used...
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On Heroes, Carnies and Cockteasing Combine into Cheese [Heroes Recap] - 2 hours ago
Just when you thought Heroes might have a chance of getting good again, it comes back with an...
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Acidic Oceans May Be a Boon for Some Marine Dwellers
Falling ocean pH might help some marine animals build stronger skeletons and shells [Read more]
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