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Apocalypse how? Revealing the next catastrophic threat to our world

dailymail.co.uk
4 hrs ago 3 related
        

Earth has been subjected to some apocalyptic events in its 4.5-billion-year history. Now, a new Channel 4 programme, Catastrophe, looks at the science behind the destruction and reveals the threat our planet could still be under.

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Patient, heal thyself: Grown your own new organ

independent.co.uk
5 hrs ago 15 related
        

Surgeons crossed another medical frontier this week with the transplant of a windpipe grown from stem cells – the "mother" cells of the body capable of developing into specialised tissue. The success of the operation in...

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News Review: Science battles to keep up with patients' hopes

scotsman.com
5 hrs ago 13 related
        

Published Date: 22 November 2008 IMAGINE a time when, rather than joining the waiting list for a heart, liver or kidney, patients simply hand over a few cells and their desired organ is grown for them in the lab. Whatever the...

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Scientists identify blood component that turns bacteria virulent

physorg.com
6 hrs ago 3 related
        

Scientists from the Scripps Research Institute have discovered the key chemical that signals Bacillus anthracis, the bacterium that causes anthrax, to become lethal. This finding opens up new avenues of exploration for the...

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Gallery: The First Decades of Seeing the Unseen

wired.com
3 hrs ago 3 related
        

Photo courtesy San Francisco Museum of Modern ArtWhat are the social consequences when science allows us to see things that had previously been invisible? Scientists have revealed microscopic life, nanoscale molecules and...

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Reversing Coral Reef Decline in Hawai`i -- A New Look at a Critical Problem

usgs.gov
11 hrs ago 1 related
        

New discoveries about how even small amounts of sediment can severely impact fragile ocean coral and suggestions about solutions are illustrated and described in a new book written by a team of U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)...

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New Bioinformatic Tools Accelerate Genome Assembly

bigblog.com
4 hrs ago 1 related
        

Iowa Ag Connection - 11/21/2008 Scientists have developed a new tool that will help them accelerate the assembly of the genome of any organism by identifying redundant and irrelevant segments of DNA. With funding from USDA's...

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New Book by RTI International Scientist Serves as Resource for ...

drugpolicycentral.com
8 hrs ago
        

New Book by RTI International Scientist Serves as Resource for Workplace Drug Testing : published at CarolinaNewswire.com - Stay on top of the day's business & technology news New Book by RTI International Scientist Serves as...

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Copernicus's remains identified

telegraph.co.uk
15 hrs ago 100 related
        

The remains of the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus have been identified by Polish scientists 465 years after his death. Researchers compared DNA samples taken from bones retrieved from Frombork Cathedral in northern Poland, long...

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NRL scientists study cracks in brittle materials

brightsurf.com
14 hrs ago 6 related
        

The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is part of an international team of scientists that is learning more about how cracks form in brittle materials. The team used both computer modeling and experimentation to investigate how...

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