(PhysOrg.com) -- A Purdue University scientist was part of a global team that has demonstrated a specialized mapping technique that could speed work in genomic fields by quickly finding genetic associations that shape an ...
Biotechnology
Mar 25, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- For many years it's been known that the fever, achiness and other symptoms you feel during the flu are triggered by a viral molecule that travels through the body acting like a toxin.
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 25, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Before the Jan. 12 earthquake that leveled Port-au-Prince, the last great quake to strike Haiti was more than 150 years ago. Assessing historical seismic activity can be critical to understanding the future ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 25, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new population of rare giant mouse lemurs was discovered in southwestern Madagascar?s Ranobe forest, World Wildlife Fund said.
Ecology
Mar 25, 2010
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Electricity from sunlight could be possible using a robust, low-cost solar cell that uses dyes anchored on inexpensive titanium oxide, rather than highly pure and thus expensive bulk materials. Before commercial applications ...
Materials Science
Mar 25, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Your worst enemy can sometimes also be your best friend, according to entomologists from the University of Florida and Illinois State University.
Ecology
Mar 25, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Forty-five years ago, 27-year old Heinz Erzberger arrived at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. armed with a new doctorate in mathematics and engineering. In 1973 Erzberger began the work that ...
Other
Mar 25, 2010
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A rare Type Ia supernova whose progenitor star had a mass some two and a half times that of our sun - much more mass than a Type Ia progenitor should be able to accumulate before it explodes - has led members of the Nearby ...
Astronomy
Mar 25, 2010
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The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) is part of an international sea search operation formed to locate the deep-sea wreck site of Air France Flight 447 and to retrieve the flight recorders from the Airbus A 330.
Earth Sciences
Mar 25, 2010
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Identifying the causes of heat stress in cattle and finding ways to manage it are the goals of Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and cooperators who are helping producers deal with this significant production ...
Other
Mar 25, 2010
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