The news sounds grim: Mounting scientific evidence indicates climate change will lead to more frequent…
Month: February 2013
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Evolution helped turn hairless skin into a canvas for self-expression
Hairless skin first evolved in humans as a way to keep cool — and then…
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Brain prostheses create a sense of touch: Infrared signaling could create sense of touch in artificial limbs
Infrared sensing might be built into a whole-body prosthesis for paraplegics so patients wearing the…
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Copper can protect against Alzheimer’s disease
Researchers have provided unequivocal evidence that under conditions which are approximately similar to those found…
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Promising new approach to preventing progression of breast cancer
Doctors currently struggle to determine whether a breast tumor is likely to shift into an…
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New genus of crustacean and five new species
On recent expeditions to Madagascar and the French Polynesia, two researchers have discovered five new…
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Tiny CREPT instrument to study the radiation belts
A smaller version of an instrument now flying on NASA’s Van Allen Probes has won…
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Hubble sees cosmic ‘flying v’ of merging galaxies
The Hubble Space Telescope has taken an image of a large “flying V” that is…
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Russian asteroid strike: Numerous injuries, significant damage
A space rock a few metres across exploded in Earth’s atmosphere above the city of…
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Russia meteor not linked to asteroid flyby, preliminary data indicate
Preliminary information indicates that a meteor in Chelyabinsk, Russia, is not related to asteroid 2012…