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  • Should We Eat Meat? Evolution and Consequences of Modern Carnivory

    • Posted by Figen Eker
    • Fri at 7:43 PM
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    Meat eating is often a contentious subject, whether considering the technical, ethical, environmental, political, or health-related aspects of production and consumption.
    Wiley is pleased to announce the publication of Should We Eat Meat? -- a wide-ra...

  • ESO's Very Large Telescope Celebrates 15 Years of Success

    • Posted by Figen Eker
    • Fri at 12:18 AM
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    With this new view of a spectacular stellar nursery ESO is celebrating 15 years of the Very Large Telescope — the world's most advanced optical instrument. This picture reveals thick clumps of dust silhouetted against the pink glowing gas cloud k...

  • How Gold Nanoparticles Can Help Fight Ovarian Cancer

    • Posted by Figen Eker
    • Wed at 6:40 PM
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    Positively charged gold nanoparticles are usually toxic to cells, but cancer cells somehow manage to avoid nanoparticle toxicity. Mayo Clinic researchers found out why and determined how to make the nanoparticles effective against ovarian cancer cells....

  • Jack and the Beanstalk helps to provide new insights into workings of the Law

    • Posted by Figen Eker
    • Tue at 12:48 AM
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    The tale of Jack and the Beanstalk is being used in the classroom to introduce primary school children to the intricacies of the law.
    A novel project by the University of Leicester has seen 13 students from the School of Law work with children as part...

  • New discovery of ancient diet shatters conventional ideas of how agriculture emerged

    • Posted by Figen Eker
    • May 17
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    Archaeologists have made a discovery in southern subtropical China which could revolutionise thinking about how ancient humans lived in the region.
    They have uncovered evidence for the first time that people living in Xincun 5,000 years ago may have p...

  • Beautiful 'flowers' self-assemble in a beaker

    • Posted by Anne Korn
    • May 17
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    "Spring is like a perhaps hand," wrote the poet E. E. Cummings: "carefully / moving a perhaps / fraction of flower here placing / an inch of air there... / without breaking anything." 
    With the hand of nature trained on a beaker of chemical fluid...

  • Actor Johnny Depp immortalised in ancient fossil find

    • Posted by Anne Korn
    • May 16
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    A scientist has discovered an ancient extinct creature with ‘scissor hand-like’ claws in fossil records and has named it in honour of his favourite movie star.
    The 505 million year old fossil called Kooteninchela deppi (pronounced Koo-ten-...

  • The drones of oil

    • Posted by Figen Eker
    • May 15
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    Geologists in Norway are using flying drones with cameras to hunt for oil.
    Geologists have long used seismology on the bottom of the ocean or have been throwing dynamite from snowmobiles when they look for oil. But now researchers at Centre for integr...

  • Fossil saved from mule track revolutionises understanding of ancient dolphin-like marine reptile

    • Posted by Anne Korn
    • May 15
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    An international team of scientists have revealed a new species of ichthyosaur (a dolphin-like marine reptile from the age of dinosaurs) from Iraq, which revolutionises our understanding of the evolution and extinction of these ancient marine reptiles....

  • Boise State Research Shows Kestrels, Other Urban Birds Are Stressed By Human Activity

    • Posted by Anne Korn
    • May 13
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    American kestrels, small colorful falcons often seen perched along roadways, are abundant in urban and agricultural areas. Shorter grass makes insects, snakes, mice and other prey more visible, and signposts, fences and telephone poles provide excellen...
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