Researchers from France and Australia have been able to develop a new way to hunt for stars and planets in the heavens. Using optical fibers, by feeding light through single-mode optical fibers from the telecomm industry. Getting rid of more light allows researches to look deeper and clearer into space. Will this new development be [...]
Entries from February 8th, 2009
Emperor Penguins March Toward Extinction?
February 8th, 2009 · No Comments · Biology
Scientists predict that emperor penguins could be extinct by the end of the century. Research shows that climate change and climate fluctuations are causing the loss of sea ice. They used mathematical models to predict this. They predict that a colony will decrease from 3,000 to 400 by the end of the century, which shows [...]
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Lasers Reveal Photosynthesis
February 8th, 2009 · No Comments · Physics
The Physics Department at Imperial College have come up with a way to see the sun’s energy moving through plants. They used powerful pulses of light at high intensities to get instant pictures of how the sun’s energy works in a plant to make food. Read more here. This is a very important discovery for [...]
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Gummy Bears That Fight Plaque
February 8th, 2009 · No Comments · Biology
Smart people have incorporated a tooth-protecting sugar substitute called xylitol into gummy bears. Xylitol reduces the harmful bacteria that builds up on your teeth. In studies, children that ate just twelve gummy bears a day for several weeks significantly lowered the amount of harmful bacteria on their teeth. To read the full article click here. This [...]
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Research in Rice Genes Can Help Stop World Hunger
February 8th, 2009 · No Comments · Biology
A researcher at Purdue University has put an effort to improve rice varieties by researching the rice gene that decides how many shoots of rice will be on a rice plant he is working to create a domesticated rice species that produces more rice while taking up the same amount of space and water. Long [...]
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Nail-biting habits, genetic..?
February 8th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Biology
The purpose of this study was to clarify the genetic contribution to finger-sucking and nail-biting in childhood using the largest databases available on Japanese twins. The subjects were 1131 pairs of 12-year-old twin children, consisting of 1057 males and 1205 females. All data were gathered by maternal questionnaire, and responses to the questionnaire were checked [...]
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Dinos of a Feather
February 8th, 2009 · No Comments · Biology
Back in the years of 1970 and 1980, people thought that all dinosaurs had regular skin like the rest of today’s reptiles, like the alligator. Recent fossil finding in 1990 and early 2000 have said a different story. Over a dozen fossils have been found with DNA or fossilization of feathers. The feather fossils were [...]
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Spitting Cobras Hit Their Mark
February 8th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Biology
Spitting cobras have the ability to spray venom into the eyes of potential attackers. They don’t actually spit the venom, but muscle contractions squeeze the cobra’s venom gland, forcing venom to stream out of the snake’s fangs. The muscles can produce enough pressure to spray venom up to six feet. In order for the venom to [...]
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Superb Polymer Accident
February 8th, 2009 · No Comments · Chemistry
While trying to discover a better polymer to block the transport of bad gases, Scientists mistakenly Discovered a different polymer that can be used effectively to help keep food and medicine safely packaged. It may slightly reduce costs of packaging and storing of medication and other food products that require this polymer for packaging Read [...]
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What happens when a stone impacts on water
February 8th, 2009 · No Comments · Physics
Researchers at the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM), the University of Twente in the Netherlands and the University of Seville in Spain have explained the formation and behaviour of the very fast water jet that is formed when an object impacts on a water surface. They have observed precisely what happens using a [...]
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