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Reanalyses of existing data have pushed the overall Higgs signal up to 4.3 Image: CMS Today the two main experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most ...
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Custom-designed proteins made with the aid of computers could fight chemical weapons such as nerve gas and help decontaminate toxic-waste sites, scientists say. In recent ...
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Public opinion on climate change is likely to remain divided as long as politicians send mixed messages on the issue
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Several Russian news outlets are reporting that Russian scientists have successfully drilled to Antarctica's Lake Vostok, a massive liquid lake cut off from daylight for 14 ...
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People who live farther from the equator have larger eye sockets than their tropical counterparts, a new study finds. And as people inhabited higher and higher latitudes, eye ...
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A PET scan's bright areas reveal the concentration of amyloid beta, a protein that forms a plaque in Alzheimer's patients. The scan compares the brains of a healthy patient ...
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MOONRISE: An artist's conception of an exoplanet hosting smaller moons. Image: David A. Aguilar (CfA) To answer it, a team of astronomers is now digging through publicly ...
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EcoBot-III was able to both eat and crap inside its lab environment. Image: Bristol Robotics Laboratory, UK Today's robots that fly, jump or roll around must refuel or ...
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Russia's Vostok Station, in a photograph taken during the 2000 to 2001 field season. Image: Josh Landis, National Science Foundation At a tiny outpost in the middle of ...
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Contact lenses that help enhance normal vision with megapixel 3D panoramic images are being designed by scientists using military funding. ...
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Recent media reports and ongoing protests over the reportedly abhorrent working conditions at factories where Apple's iPhones are produced have left socially conscious ...
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An artist's conception of the alien planet GJ 667Cc, which is located in the habitable zone of its parent star. Image: Carnegie Institution for Science A potentially habitable ...
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A warming ocean is encouraging the growth of coral in the far Southern Hemisphere, overriding any effects of
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Noosa River: Millions of years ago, plants created muds and channeled rivers, which ultimately led to forests and farmland. Image: Photo courtesy of brewbooks on Flickr ...
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The medical marijuana drug Sativex, which could be approved in the United States in the coming years as a treatment for pain relief, has little potential for abuse, experts ...
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A mysterious, centuries-long cool spell, dubbed the Little Ice Age, appears to have been caused by a series of volcanic eruptions and sustained by sea ice, a new study ...
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Oh, to be a fly on the auditory cortex! That, in a manner of speaking, is exactly what a group of researchers working in Berkeley and San Francisco have done. Measurements of ...
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Leonardo da Vinci's drawing of a male figure perfectly inscribed in a circle and square, known as the "Vitruvian Man," illustrates what he believed to be a divine connection ...
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The array could be the most complex and versatile radio telescope ever attempted, with the capacity to sweep the entire northern sky in 45 days for low-frequency radio waves
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A few weeks ago a clinic in Mumbai claimed to have identified a dozen patients with a strain of tuberculosis (TB) resistant to all known treatments. TB is a highly contagious ...
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Children living near DuPont"s plant in West Virginia are exposed to much higher concentrations of an industrial chemical than their mothers, according to a newly published ...
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A lunar sample collected by Apollo astronauts suggests that other-Earthly geophysics drove the moon's churning interior CHIP OFF THE OLD ROCK: A piece of lunar sample 10020, a ...
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The color of a candidate’s skin failed to sway voters to depress the lever for either Obama or McCain in the 2008 election, immediate analyses of that contest seemed to ...
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PEAK OIL?: A new analysis published in Nature suggests that the era of easy oil may be over. Image: © iStockphoto.com / Stephen Strathdee To support our modern ...
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