November 2010 Archives
30 November 2010 |
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Prelude to a Plague
Worst cholera outbreaks may come with warnings
30 November 2010 |
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ScienceShot: Pollutant Changes Sexual Preference
Male ibises that consume mercury pair up with other males instead of females
30 November 2010 |
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ScienceShot: Odor Exposure in the Womb Primes the Palate
Mother's diet affects offspring's sense of smell and taste
30 November 2010 |
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Why Diets Fail
Short-term dieting makes mice more sensitive to stress, which increases their craving for sweets
29 November 2010 |
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Earth Oceans Were Homegrown
New model suggests that our seas didn't come from comets and asteroids
29 November 2010 |
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ScienceShot: Shaving a Diamond
Computer simulation reveals why it's possible to cut the world's hardest material
29 November 2010 |
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Podcast: Tricky Tumors, the Sun's Siblings, and Clues to Your Birthday in Your Blood
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29 November 2010 |
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The Curious Case of the Backwardly Aging Mouse
Restoring chromosome caps reverses signs of aging in rodents
25 November 2010 |
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ScienceShot: Yasuni Reveals Its Hidden Creatures
Camera traps capture jaguars, spiny rats, and other animals deep in the western Amazon
25 November 2010 |
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A Greener Way to Make Plastic
Researchers develop more efficient and sustainable way to create building blocks of consumer goods
24 November 2010 |
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Black Hole May Offer Clues to Extra Dimensions
Controversial idea relies on string theory and warping of spacetime
24 November 2010 |
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Giant Eruption Cut Down to Size
New model reduces the climate-cooling impacts of Toba, a massive "supervolcano"
23 November 2010 |
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ScienceShot: Meet the Squidworm
Newly discovered deep-sea creature looks like a worm but has a bevy of tentacles
23 November 2010 |
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Anti-HIV Pill Protects Against AIDS
Drug cuts transmission rates nearly in half
22 November 2010 |
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ScienceShot: Daylight Savings Hurts Test Scores
Changing the clock lowers SAT performance
22 November 2010 |
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Your Blood Holds Clues to Your Birthday
New forensic technique could help narrow down crime-scene suspects
21 November 2010 |
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Brain Tumors Grow Their Own Blood Supply
Discovery may explain failure of certain anticancer drugs
19 November 2010 |
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ScienceShot: Snakes Lie to Save Their Skin
Kingsnakes fool predators when they imitate a venomous cousin, even if the mimicry is imperfect
19 November 2010 |
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Podcast: Flying Pterosaurs, Gut Bacteria, and Using Google to Predict the Stock Market
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19 November 2010 |
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Can the Sun's Siblings Be Found?
Stars born with the sun may be dispersed far and wide in the Milky Way
19 November 2010 |
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ScienceShot: Worm Goo's Sticky Secret
Self-organizing proteins create a cage around prey
19 November 2010 |
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ScienceShot: A Complex Brain Inside a Very Big Skull
First close-up look at elephant brains reveals surprisingly diverse neurons
18 November 2010 |
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ScienceShot: Comet Hartley 2 Spewing 'Cosmic Snowstorm'
Best look at an active comet reveals its own space weather
18 November 2010 |
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Alien Planet May Have Come From Another Galaxy
World also orbits star that shouldn't have been able to form planets
17 November 2010 |
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Antiatoms Bottled for First Time
Physicists take key step in efforts to compare matter and antimatter in a new way
16 November 2010 |
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ScienceShot: Fish Sleep Soundly in Mucous Cocoons
Protective layer shields fish from blood-sucking crustaceans
16 November 2010 |
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Listening for Oil Spills
Sonar allows researchers to track oil, gas leaking into Gulf of Mexico
16 November 2010 |
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Evolutionary Relationships Hold, Even in Our Guts
Primate species that are closely related share similar intestinal bacteria
16 November 2010 |
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Spacecraft Successfully Returns Asteroid Dust
Mission is the first to land on and return samples from a celestial body other than the moon
15 November 2010 |
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Large Size Didn't Keep Pterosaurs Grounded
Group argues that ancient reptiles flew just fine, despite their massive weight
15 November 2010 |
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ScienceShot: Stinkbug Phone Lines
Insects communicate by vibrating their bodies against plant stalks
15 November 2010 |
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ScienceShot: Astronomers Spot Baby Black Hole in Our Galactic Neighborhood
Black hole is youngest ever seen this close
15 November 2010 |
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Neandertal Children Developed on the Fast Track
Tooth analysis suggests our close cousins matured faster than we did
14 November 2010 |
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Can Google Predict the Stock Market?
New analysis shows connection between search terms and stock market activity
12 November 2010 |
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A Devilish Grass Invades the West
Invasive medusahead outgrows native grasses, study finds
12 November 2010 |
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Physicists Create Black Hole 'Light' in Lab
Team produces something much like long-predicted Hawking radiation
12 November 2010 |
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Podcast: Sunburned Whales, Dark Matter, and Insect Brains
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12 November 2010 |
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ScienceShot: Calorie Counters, Stand Tall
Height predicts how much energy a person burns while walking
11 November 2010 |
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How Reading Rewires the Brain
Literacy enhances brain responses to reading words but may sap brainpower from other tasks
11 November 2010 |
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Cats' Tongues Employ Tricky Physics
Felines may lap water differently than any other animal
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