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Can We Spot Volcanoes on Alien Worlds? Astronomers Say Yes.
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09/09/2010 01:32 AM
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Volcanoes display the awesome power of Nature like few other events. Earlier this year, ash from an Icelandic volcano disrupted air travel throughout much of northern Europe. Yet this recent eruption pales next to the fury of Jupiter's moon Io, the most volcanic body in our solar system. (2010-09-08)
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Moonstruck primates: Owl monkeys need moonlight as much as a biological clock for nocturnal activity
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09/09/2010 01:32 AM
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An international collaboration led by a University of Pennsylvania anthropologist has shown that environmental factors, like temperature and light, play as much of a role in the activity of traditionally nocturnal monkeys as the circadian rhythm that regulates periods of sleep and wakefulness. (2010-09-07)
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MIT researchers create new self-assembling photovoltaic technology that repairs itself
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09/09/2010 01:32 AM
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Plants are good at doing what scientists and engineers have been struggling to do for decades: converting sunlight into stored energy, and doing so reliably day after day, year after year. (2010-09-07)
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Mimicking the moon's surface in the basement
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09/09/2010 01:32 AM
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A team of scientists used an ion beam in a basement room at Los Alamos National Laboratory to simulate solar winds on the surface of the Moon. (2010-08-09)
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Syracuse University physicists develop model that pushes limits of quantum theory, relativity
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09/09/2010 01:32 AM
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All of the matter in the universe-everything we see, feel and smell-has a certain predictable structure, thanks to the tiny electrons spinning around their atomic nuclei in a series of concentric shells or atomic levels. (2010-08-04)
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Caltech astronomer finds planets in unusually intimate dance around dying star
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09/09/2010 01:32 AM
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Hundreds of extrasolar planets have been found over the past decade and a half, most of them solitary worlds orbiting their parent star in seeming isolation. (2010-07-28)
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Small investment could save 11 million African lives
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09/09/2010 01:32 AM
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In the next five years, 11 million African women and children could be saved by creating near-universal availability of key life-saving interventions, according to The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health and the Countdown to 2015 Decade Report (2000-2010). (2010-07-27)
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Caltech team finds evidence of water in moon minerals
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09/09/2010 01:32 AM
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That dry, dusty moon overhead? Seems it isn't quite as dry as it's long been thought to be. Although you won't find oceans, lakes, or even a shallow puddle on its surface, a team of geologists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), working with colleagues at the University of Tennessee, has found structurally bound hydroxyl groups (i.e., water) in a mineral in a lunar rock returned to Earth by the Apollo program. (2010-07-22)
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UT researchers discover water on the moon is widespread, similar to Earth's
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09/09/2010 01:32 AM
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Researchers at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, are once again turning what scientists thought they knew about the moon on its head. (2010-07-22)
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Expedition to Mid-Cayman Rise identifies unusual variety of deep sea vents
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09/09/2010 01:32 AM
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The first expedition to search for deep-sea hydrothermal vents along the Mid-Cayman Rise has turned up three distinct types of hydrothermal venting, reports an interdisciplinary team led by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (2010-07-21)
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Several studies support the role of choline in fetal development and throughout the lifespan
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09/09/2010 01:32 AM
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A study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that a choline-deficient diet is associated with increased risk for heart defects during prenatal development. (2010-07-16)
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Caltech scientists measure changing lake depths on Titan
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09/09/2010 01:32 AM
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On Earth, lake levels rise and fall with the seasons and with longer-term climate changes, as precipitation, evaporation, and runoff add and remove liquid. Now, for the first time, scientists have found compelling evidence for similar lake-level changes on Saturn's largest moon, Titan-the only other place in the solar system seen to have a hydrological cycle with standing liquid on the surface. (2010-07-15)
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Stroke complications may subtract additional two years of healthy life
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09/09/2010 01:32 AM
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Complications shortly after a stroke deprive patients of about two years of healthy life - in addition to the toll of stroke, according to research reported in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association. (2010-07-02)
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UVA radiation damages DNA in human melanocyte skin cells and can lead to melanoma
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09/09/2010 01:32 AM
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A new study by researchers at NYU School of Medicine found that UVA radiation damages the DNA in human melanocyte cells, causing mutations that can lead to melanoma. (2010-07-02)
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