Experts with the Stowers Institute for Medical Research announce the creation of a new, all-female lizard species. The animals were produced in a scientific laboratory, and their “genesis” is not entirely unique – a similar speciation process is known to have taken place in nature as well. Though ex... |
4 May 2011
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All species are genetically programmed to ensure their and their offspring survival, so most genetic mistakes, that will produce catastrophic hybrids are avoided.For animals or for insects, reinforcement – deterrence of hybrid mating, is quite easy to do, and a small difference in scent, plumage or mating ritua... |
10 January 2011
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By combining the atom-thick carbon compound graphene with very small sheets of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN), researchers at the Rice University managed to obtain a new type of structure that is bound to advance materials science considerably. The investigators produced a two-dimensional quilt, which essentially ove... |
2 March 2010
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Scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, in La Jolla, California, have recently managed to achieve an impressing goal – the transplantation of a liver from a human to a mouse. They were successful in their quest, which means that human liver cells, which are subjected to the same type of infecti... |
23 February 2010
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At this point, one of the main obstacles preventing the full-scale development and implementation of electric or hybrid vehicles is the prohibitive cost of batteries, as well as their reduced mileage. Potential buyers weigh all these factors in when deciding what type and brand of car to purchase, but experts believe... |
20 August 2009
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Rather than trying to devise complicated and very expensive graphene production processes, or novel ways of producing large amounts of carbon nanotubes, researchers at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) have created a new compound, which is a lot faster and easier to produce, and also takes the best o... |
14 May 2009
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Several police departments across the US have changed or enriched their fleet of police cars with hybrids, in an attempt to reduce the amount of money they have to spend each year on buying gasoline at high prices. Police chiefs say that the new vehicles do not feature the massive V8 or V10 engines of their predecess... |
21 January 2009
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Fossil fuel reserves, petrol in special, are becoming increasingly scarce around the world with rapid economical development of poor countries, which greatly influences petrol prices in areas all over the world. Not only that, but burning fossil fuel increases the pollution of the planet, thus accelerating the climat... |
29 May 2008
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