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Volcanic Blast Likely Killed And Preserved Juvenile Fossil Plesiosaur
Amid 70-mile-an-hour winds and freezing Antarctic conditions, an American-Argentine research team has recovered the well-preserved fossil skeleton of a juvenile plesiosaur -- a marine reptile that swam the waters of the Southern ocean roughly 70 million years ago. Dream Home: Malaria Parasite Renovates To Suit Its Tastes
The malaria parasite survives in its host by remodelling the red blood cells in which it dwells. Once ensconced in its newly refurbished home, the parasite evades detection by the host's immune system. Alan F. Cowman, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) international research scholar at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, Australia, and colleagues report on studies that reveal this clever survival strategy, in the December 10, 2004 issue of the journal Science. Apple Nabs Beatles for ITunes
Soon you'll be able to purchase Fab Four tunes and listen to 'em on your iPhone. In Listening Post. Tiny Capers Pack Big Disease-fighting Punch
Capers, used in such culinary delights as chicken piccata and smoked salmon, may be small. But they are an unexpectedly big source of natural antioxidants that show promise for fighting cancer and heart disease when added to meals, particularly meats, researchers in Italy are reporting. Researchers Know What You Were About To Say; fMRI Used To Detect Memor
Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University have provided evidence that the act of recalling a memory is a bit like mental time travel. Their study, presented in the Dec. 23 edition of the journal Science, demonstrates that the same areas of the brain that are active during an event are activated when a person attempts to recall that event -- seconds before the memory surfaces. Silicon Can Work For New-Age Spintronics Applications
In a rapid follow-up to their achievement as the first to demonstrate how an electron's spin can be electrically injected, controlled and detected in silicon, electrical engineers from the University of Delaware and Cambridge NanoTech now show that this quantum property can be transported a marathon distance in the world of microelectronics -- through an entire silicon wafer. The finding confirms that silicon -- the workhorse material of present-day electronics -- now can be harnessed up for new-age spintronics applications. Flu mechanics
With the holiday season almost upon us, that means only one thing, flu is also on its way and if the scaremongers are to be believed the long-forewarned bird flu epidemic might follow in its wake any time soon.Now, US researchers have put to work the 15-ton 900 MHz NMR machine at Florida State U [...] Finding Gold in Found Video
The Found Footage Festival celebrates snippets of home movies and bad instructional films. Strung together into a movie screening-cum-comedy show, the event may be heading to the West Coast. By Harmon Leon. 200-year Experiment Changes Face Of Forest Management
A 200-year study of rotting logs in the Oregon Cascade Range is only 10 percent complete, but findings from this research have already helped save hundreds of millions of dollars, improved forest health and shattered conventional wisdom about the decay of woody debris. [Ironic] Professional beggars prowling about the streets of Moroccan c
The government plans to crack down on the scam used by faux beggars in growing numbers for a kind of "emotional blackmail", a cabinet minister was quoted as saying...
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