In a new scientific study, it was revealed that analyzing the isotopic signature of various chemicals found in the bone, and especially the teeth, of ancient animals could give researchers more clues as to how warm the creatures' bodies were. The new investigations method relies on looking at the way in which ve... |
25 May 2010
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There are numerous issues to consider when dealing with space exploration, not the least of which is the fact that discovering signs of life on a distant planet or moon is extremely difficult. Discovering fossils is hard enough even on Earth, let alone on space rocks such as Mars. Nevertheless, future rovers will nee... |
24 May 2010
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More than two years ago, a team of researchers dropped a bomb-news on the international scientific community – they had found intact proteins from a Tyrannosaurus Rex, one of the largest carnivorous dinosaurs that ever lived. Critics naturally started jumping up and down, arguing that it was essentially impossi... |
1 August 2009
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California Institute of Technology (Caltech) scientists managed to create the first mass spectrometer at the nanoscale in the world. The device is able to measure the mass of single molecules in real-time, combining the action of components several billionths of a millimeter in size. The new method is a significant b... |
23 July 2009
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Thanks to a new mass spectrometric method devised by scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, in Jena, Germany, working together with colleagues from the Czech Academy of Sciences, in Prague, the Czech Republic, doctors could soon require only a single drop of blood – less than a micro liter... |
19 June 2009
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