By reconstructing an ancient protein and tracing how it subtly changed over vast periods of time to produce scores of modern-day descendants, scientists have shown how evolution tinkers with early forms and leaves the impression ...
Evolution
Oct 5, 2010
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With the Major League Baseball Division Series set to begin, associate math professor Bruce Bukiet at NJIT is performing his analysis of the probability of each team advancing to the League Championship Series. "Going into ...
Mathematics
Oct 5, 2010
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The GOES-13 satellite passed over a low pressure area designated as "System 97L" earlier today and captured a visible image of the low in the eastern Caribbean Sea. System 97L appears in a good place for development into ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 5, 2010
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In research that one day may lead to the discovery of how to regenerate tissue damaged by heart disease, investigators at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles have identified PDGF as a key factor in the proliferation and transformation ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 5, 2010
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The northwestern Pacific Ocean is just as active as the Atlantic Ocean this hurricane season. The fourteenth tropical depression formed near Hainan Island, China this morning and its birth was captured by a NASA infrared ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 5, 2010
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Wind power is likely to play a large role in the future of sustainable, clean energy, but wide-scale adoption has remained elusive. Now, researchers have found wind farms' effects on local temperatures and proposed strategies ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 5, 2010
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(AP) -- Yahoo is trying to spruce up its online advertising service by buying a startup called Dapper.
Internet
Oct 5, 2010
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Some fisheries in the United States are poised to undergo major changes in the regulations used to protect fish stocks, and Iowa State University researchers have estimated that the new system will be an economic boon to ...
Ecology
Oct 5, 2010
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Looking at a hagfish – an eyeless, snot-covered, worm-like scavenger of the deep – the last thing that comes to mind is sex. Yet the reproductive functioning of these ancient vertebrates is such an enduring enigma ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 5, 2010
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Google has asked a California court to throw out a lawsuit filed by Oracle that accuses the Internet search giant of violating patents held by the US business software company.
Business
Oct 5, 2010
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