The humble earthworm provides a new sensitive and detailed picture of what is going on…
Month: June 2008
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Protein Found To Promote Antibiotic Resistance In A Common Food-borne Pathogen
Researchers have identified a novel factor that promotes the development of antibiotic resistance in a…
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Astronomers Weigh The Coldest Brown Dwarfs With Astronomy’s Sharpest Eyes
Astronomers have used ultrasharp images obtained with the Keck Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope to…
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Natural lab shows sea’s acid path
Natural CO2 vents on the sea floor show scientists how life will be affected as…
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Revisiting the Safari Vulnerability on Windows
A little over a week ago, I wrote about a security advisory from Microsoft warning…
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Revisiting the Safari Vulnerability on Windows
A little over a week ago, I wrote about a security advisory from Microsoft warning…
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Leaders of No. 2 union OK Hollywood labor contract (AP)
AP – Leaders of Hollywood’s second-largest actors union approved a new contract with studios that…
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Phoenix Mars Lander Checking Soil Properties
The arm of NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander released a handful of clumpy Martian soil onto…
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Genes May Determine Which Smoking Cessation Treatment Works Best
Kicking the habit may soon become easier for the nation’s 45 million smokers. For the…
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Nano-tech Process Produces Plastics That Are 10 Times More Stretchable
Move over, Rumplestiltskin. Researchers in China report the first successful “electrospinning” of a type of…