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Studies conducted over the past few years are beginning to suggest that living cells may be able to communicate with one another through light, by emitting and absorbing photons. Scientists call these special wave-particles biophotons. According to some experts, energy-carrying excitons are responsible for transport... |
22 May 2012
11:36 GMT |
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Scripps Research Institute (SRI) scientist Gerald Joyce, a prominent molecular biologist, says that scientists needs to slow down in making unfounded claims about alien life. He says that both experts and laypeople will eventually lose interest in conducting the type of science that is actually needed for identifying... |
10 May 2012
08:58 GMT |
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The latest scientific investigations on the benefits of multilingualism indicate that being able to speak multiple languages does more for us than simply to enable communications with a larger number of people. Multilingualism also contributes to keeping the brain fit, and making us smarter. According to scientists... |
19 March 2012
05:30 GMT |
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In February 2040, a near-Earth object may pose a danger to our planet. The space rock carries the designation 2011 AG5, and is believed to be about 140 meters (450 feet) wide. While it's not on a direct collision course with Earth, experts are beginning to ponder methods of altering its course.
As the image to ... |
27 February 2012
10:58 GMT |
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Officials at the European Space Agency (ESA) announce that a new rocket test took place this morning, February 13, in northern Sweden. A Maser rocket carried five scientific experiments to the edge of space, providing scientists with 5 to 6 minutes of weightlessness.
The Maser-12 climbed to an altitude of about 250 ... |
13 February 2012
16:01 GMT |
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The fact that chocolate has a lot of positive effects on the human body is incontestable. While chemicals such as flavonoids (a class of polyphenol compounds) have a wide array of benefits for humans, they also have drawbacks. Researchers now list some of those caveats.
Investigators with the University of Californ... |
9 February 2012
08:51 GMT |
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Officials at NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) are ecstatic to note that the Hubble Space Telescope has just been used in a 10,000th refereed science paper, making the now-legal observatory the most widely-used astronomy mission ever.
While Hubble is a joint endeavor between NASA and ESA, study hours can be ... |
7 December 2011
10:57 GMT |
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Officials with the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) say that they have recently designated a portion of the existing, 22-square mile Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary off the Georgia coast a research area.
This implies that the southern half of the 57-square-kilometer area is no... |
14 October 2011
16:01 GMT |
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A new series of studies conducted by investigators at the Brown University finally manages to shed more light on a naturally-occurring phenomenon called flash heating, which only occurs during intense earthquakes. Experts have been trying to understand the process in detail for years.
Brown geophysicists set up a ... |
14 October 2011
03:56 GMT |
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A series of new studies appear to demonstrate that behavior interventions can be especially useful for people suffering from diabetes. Many patients leave their blood sugar and insulin levels spiral out of control, which puts them at risk of developing various complications.
Even without these complications, diabe... |
13 October 2011
05:03 GMT |
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Funds provided by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) supported the research carried out by five of all 2011 Nobel Prize laureates. This is great moment for the Foundation, which has a long-standing tradition with supporting research that is both relevant and applicable at a large scale.
Three of the five NSF... |
12 October 2011
05:09 GMT |
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A group of astronomers argues that their field of study appears to be largely oblivious to the fact that 3D technologies are available for scientific instruments. Astronomy could be made more appealing to both scientists and the general public if 3D tools were to be introduced in its use. The necessary equipment is t... |
27 July 2011
09:21 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of two new scientific studies, it would appear that the material which makes up Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars did not originate in the protoplanetary disk around the Sun. When the star formed, not all of the gas clouds that collapsed to ignite it made it into the star. The leftover mater... |
24 June 2011
03:00 GMT |
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Though the Sun should theoretically enter a period of increased activity called a solar maximum, experts say that the star may in fact be getting ready to become less active over the next few years. Peak solar maximum was supposed to be achieved between 2012 and 2013. The new conclusions are based on an thorough anal... |
15 June 2011
03:30 GMT |
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Two research teams have simultaneously and independently arrived at the conclusion that airborne microorganisms can influence Earth's weather, and (to some extent) even its climate.
In presentations made on Monday, May 24, at the American Society for Microbiology meeting in New Orleans, representatives from th... |
25 May 2011
02:54 GMT |
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Researchers carrying out their studies on the open ocean now have a new aid at their disposal. Nicknamed ESP, the new instrument is a so-called Lab in a Can, a mobile, barrel-sized laboratory that is fully autonomous, and can conduct a wide array of studies.On the outside, the instrument looks pretty much like a garb... |
23 May 2011
08:58 GMT |
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Vitamin C and echinacea are two of the substances most widely referred to when people talk about drugs against the common cold. The two are not effective in any way, as demonstrated in studies, and now experts turned their attention to the third chemical on the list, namely zinc.Over the past few decades, a large num... |
17 May 2011
08:26 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific study, it would appear that icebergs melting in the world's oceans are actually helping make the waters more fertile. This is accomplished by adding more of the chemical iron into the water mixture, which in turn leads to more phytoplankton blooms.These blooms are... |
16 May 2011
11:00 GMT |
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Experts have recently begun assessing the extent to which life may be capable of surviving on other worlds by analyzing the limits within which it does so here on Earth. Researchers are now focusing their attention of ancient microbes living under the Earth's crust.
While the role that these animals play in u... |
4 May 2011
07:35 GMT |
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The newest field of research to catch on roots in the international scientific community deals with examining research and knowledge themselves. In other words, its goal is to obtain more knowledge about knowledge. This concept is called metaknowledge.It is very similar to metacognition, the process through which we ... |
11 February 2011
05:53 GMT |
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In a new scientific study, researchers argue that the influence computer-mediated social networking has on our daily lives should be analyzed in more detail. They say that this could help us gain a better understanding of how the virtual world is changing the way we live our lives.There is no question among scientist... |
31 January 2011
08:56 GMT |
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Albert Einstein's theory on how the Universe operates, and on how its components interact, is put to the test in a new scientific study. Experts want to apply the famed physicist's principle to one of the most brutal and mysterious events in the Cosmos, the collision of two black holes. The Theory on Genera... |
26 January 2011
06:47 GMT |
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In a new scientific study, experts were able to determine that the brains of patients trying to renounce cigarettes exhibited entirely different activity patterns when the people were using two anti-smoking drugs, called bupropion and vareniclin.Apparently, these two substances are capable of triggering modifications... |
3 January 2011
17:01 GMT |
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Officials with the European Space Agency (ESA) say that the suborbital flight is the new frontier in space, providing a low-cost, shorter-duration alternative to fully-fledged orbital sorties. As such, the agency is currently accepting proposals about how suborbital flights could be best exploited.
When a spacecr... |
8 December 2010
05:42 GMT |
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Back in the 1970s, the general conception was that stress was a killer, and that people needed to avoid it at all costs. But an expert managed to change that idea, showing the it can be beneficial to us, if only we treat it as a challenge. Salvatore R. Maddi, a professor of psychology and social behavior at the Unive... |
10 November 2010
05:41 GMT |
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The Australian Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) is providing its researchers with a massively improved set of tools to study the world's oceans, which includes a new array of state-of-the-art equipment installed in the waters around the continent. The $22 million array will allow scientists in the count... |
22 October 2010
09:02 GMT |
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Who knew that prisoners could demonstrate so much care for nature? A team of researchers is working with inmates to study prairie plants, which are grown inside a correctional facility. The offenders are asked to plant the seeds, observe the way the plants grow, and then write all the data down in tables, for process... |
18 October 2010
06:51 GMT |
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Experimentation forms the basis of modern science, and researchers at the University of Southampton may have just developed a way to innovate the way this process takes place. Experts from the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at the university recently won an award for developing a type of artificial ... |
11 October 2010
07:02 GMT |
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One of the most important things that we need to make sure of today is that our planet remains capable of supporting human life for the foreseeable future. Ensuring water supplies is the most important factor. Surviving without the precious liquid is impossible for more than a few days, and yet we seem to be intent o... |
7 October 2010
02:52 GMT |
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For many years, atmospheric scientists have been trying to determine how and why clouds catch on the variety of shapes and forms that they do, and two new studies finally provide a clear view of that.According to investigators, it would appear that the origins of the aerosols – small particles in the atmosphere... |
17 September 2010
08:50 GMT |
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Numerous research flights took off over the past couple of days, all of them aimed at the recently-formed Hurricane Karl, which developed almost overnight from a tropical storm.As such, a record number of scientific flights were conducted into the intense storm, some of which were carried out using an unmanned aerial... |
17 September 2010
05:02 GMT |
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Biological sciences could soon take a new leap forward, as the US National Institutes of Health just announced new grants to support three major studies on the International Space Station.The investigations could lead to impressive breakthroughs in a number of research fields, and the new grants therefore come at a v... |
17 September 2010
04:13 GMT |
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Scientists with the IODP initiative this year conducted a new expedition off the coasts of Canada, in a bid to install a sensor network deep under the ocean floor. The array will be used for running innovative, cutting-edge marine experiments. The team spent about two months aboard the scientific research vessel ... |
8 September 2010
05:23 GMT |
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Astronomers have recently observed a series of large galaxies as they were consuming smaller versions of themselves, in order to increase their bulk and mass. The fact that galaxies tend to collide and merge with each other is nothing new, and experts have been observing some of these cosmic events for many years.One... |
8 September 2010
02:43 GMT |
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A team of investigators from the United Kingdom says that its current research effort, of peering at the geophysical and hydrological conditions below the surface of the Greenland ice sheets, are critically important for the future. They believe that this line of study could help us better understand the ensemble of ... |
7 September 2010
08:52 GMT |
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In spite of recent advancements in developing treatments for schizophrenia and related disorders, the conditions still remain debilitating, disabling, and without permanent cure. Even in the developed world, where people have access to the best treatments available, there is little doctors can do to improve schizophr... |
30 August 2010
04:42 GMT |
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A team of investigators from the United Kingdom is currently working on setting up the first ever visual biometrics database of Great White Sharks in the world.The tool is bound to help researchers in several fields conduct their investigations on the largest predators to roam our planet's oceans. Great White S... |
14 August 2010
04:44 GMT |
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Over the past few years, various research groups have shown that a large number of species exhibited personality traits, and also the ability to express and perceive emotions. This was evident for example when scientists determined that fish can feel pain. As the new knowledge accumulated, investigators started wonde... |
4 August 2010
02:21 GMT |
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Officials at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) announce that they have been recently awarded more than $7.5 million for starting renovations on infrastructure. The goal is to produce so-called “collaboratories,” which are in effect collaborative labs focused on sustainability research. Th... |
31 July 2010
03:49 GMT |
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Astronomy is a relatively new field of research. Galileo first looked at the stars using a telescope some 400 years ago, and the earliest skywatchers followed suit soon. However, until the mid-20th century, not much was known about our solar system or the planets it contained, not to mention what lies beyond it. Sinc... |
29 July 2010
05:43 GMT |
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Ever since the time of Benjamin Franklin, kites have been used as scientific equipments in a variety of simple and complex tasks. This has been owed to the fact that they are inexpensive to operate, and also capable of carrying a fair amount of sensing equipment given sufficient wind to lift it up. Sensors are even t... |
28 July 2010
09:55 GMT |
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A group of investigators from the University of Michigan, in the United States, has recently published the conclusions of a new report, which depicts shifts in empathy among American students. According to the work, it would appear that young adults today are less likely to elicit such feelings in others with the sam... |
29 May 2010
03:50 GMT |
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Though researchers don't have unlimited amounts of knowledge on black holes, they are not completely in the dark either. As such, they were able to figure out that two nearby black holes, of the variety that exists at the center of massive galaxies, were not behaving as they were supposed to. The group behind th... |
26 May 2010
02:39 GMT |
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The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announces that last month was the warmest on record. The agency also shows that the period of time spanning from January to April was also the warmest ever recorded. The new report is based on numerous datasets, which combine global land and ocean surface ... |
18 May 2010
02:35 GMT |
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The American space agency is about to begin a new chapter in its Earth exploration science program, as it prepares to fly an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for the first time. The Global Hawk flight system was originally developed for reconnaissance and combat purposes, but engineers at NASA managed to convert one int... |
1 April 2010
01:43 GMT |
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The Great Red Spot on the gas giant Jupiter is undoubtedly the largest storm in the solar system, battering the surface of the planet continuously for many centuries. This weather system is very difficult for researchers to see through, but new investigations from a number of ground-based telescopes have recently rev... |
17 March 2010
03:40 GMT |
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Scientists have been trying to find viable alternatives to fossil fuels for many years. They want to create biofuels from renewable resources that would eliminate our dependency on polluting gasoline and diesel. However, the main issue today is that producing these renewable substances is extremely expensive, because... |
9 March 2010
04:48 GMT |
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Alaskan glaciers and their surrounding land arguably produce some of the most beautiful sights in the world, with limbs of ice spiraling downwards from mountaintops. Researchers swarm to various locations every single year, taking measurements, collecting core samples, looking for fossils, or establishing the impact ... |
6 March 2010
03:58 GMT |
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A new review on how lab mice and rats are being treated and experimented upon shows that the unhealthy conditions in which the animals live may be keeping scientists from progressing, and even skewing their results. The report highlights the fact that most research groups keep their animals in extremely unhealthy con... |
3 March 2010
03:46 GMT |
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The climate “tipping point” is a concept used by scientists to denote a certain moment in time when the extent of the damage we are inflicting on the environment will become so severe that no mitigation actions will ever manage to revert the harm. According to a new investigation, conducted by researchers... |
14 February 2010
07:20 GMT |
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