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A Telescope Farm on the Moon? Maybe

longooodays的BLOG -- A Telescope Farm on the Moon? Maybe Irene Klotz, Discovery NewsScoping Out the MoonAstronomers looking for a clear and quiet place from which to map the faintest echoes from the universe's infancy may have found a welcome mat on the far side of the moon. A farm of lunar radio telescopes is among 19 next-generation observatories that intrigued NASA enough to garner a combined $12 million for a year...     2008
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Hubble Finds First Organic Molecule On Extrasolar Planet

longooodays的BLOG -- Hubble Finds First Organic Molecule On Extrasolar PlanetThe tell-tale signature of the molecule methane in the atmosphere of the Jupiter-sized extrasolar planet HD 189733b has been found with the Hubble Space Telescope. Under the right circumstances methane can play a key role in prebiotic chemistry -- the chemical reactions considered necessary to form life as we know it. Although methane has bee...     2008
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Tiny Sensor Developed To Detect Homemade Bombs

longooodays的BLOG -- Tiny Sensor Developed To Detect Homemade BombsA team of chemists and physicists at the University of California, San Diego has developed a tiny, inexpensive sensor chip capable of detecting trace amounts of hydrogen peroxide, a chemical used in the most common form of homemade explosives.  Photo of penny and peroxide sensor The hydrogen peroxide sensor is the size of a penny. (Credit: UCSD)The inv...     2008
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Cutting-edge Computing Helps Discover Origin Of Life On Earth

longooodays的BLOG -- Cutting-edge Computing Helps Discover Origin Of Life On EarthThe UK’s national computing grid, along with their counterparts in the US (TeraGrid) and Europe have helped UCL (University College London) scientists shed light on how life on earth may have originated.Deep ocean hydrothermal vents have long been suggested as possible sources of biological molecules such as RNA and DNA but it was unclea...     2008
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Loopy Photons Clarify 'Spookiness' Of Quantum Physics

longooodays的BLOG -- Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Joint Quantum Institute (NIST/University of Maryland) have developed a new method for creating pairs of entangled photons, particles of light whose properties are interlinked in a very unusual way dictated by ...     2008
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Crop Scientists Discover Gene That Controls Fruit Shape

longooodays的BLOG -- Crop Scientists Discover Gene That Controls Fruit Shape Crop scientists have cloned a gene that controls the shape of tomatoes, a discovery that could help unravel the mystery behind the huge morphological differences among edible fruits and vegetables, as well as provide new insight into mechanisms of plant development. Tomatoes with SUN gene turned on and knocked out. (Credit: Photo courtesy Ohi...     2008
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Huge Iceberg Splits In Southern Atlantic Ocean

longooodays的BLOG -- Huge Iceberg Splits In Southern Atlantic Ocean Envisat captures the break up of the massive A53A iceberg located just east of the South Georgia Island (visible at image bottom) in the southern Atlantic Ocean. Splitting iceberg captured by Envisat. (Credit: ESA)A huge fissure was spotted running south to north through the berg on 1 March by C-CORE, the Canadian ice-tracking service, while studying ...     2008
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Puzzling 'Eye Of A Hurricane' On Venus

longooodays的BLOG -- Puzzling 'Eye Of A Hurricane' On Venus Venus Express has constantly been observing the south pole of Venus and has found it to be surprisingly fickle. An enormous structure with a central part that looks like the eye of a hurricane, morphs and changes shape within a matter of days, leaving scientists puzzled. This image, of the 'eye of the hurricane' on Venus was taken by the Visible and Infrared ...     2008
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Blood Discovery: New Hemoglobin Type Found

longooodays的BLOG -- Blood Discovery: New Hemoglobin Type FoundScientists at the University of Bonn have discovered a new rare type of haemoglobin. Haemoglobin transports oxygen in the red blood corpuscles. When bound to oxygen it changes colour. The new haemoglobin type appears optically to be transporting little oxygen. Measurements of the blood oxygen level therefore present a similar picture to patients suffering ...     2008
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How we judge the thoughts of others

longooodays的BLOG -- How we judge the thoughts of others Brain division could help explain stereotyping, religious conflict and racism. Michael HopkinWhat are you thinking? We use different bits of our brain to think of ourselves and people 'not like us'. How do we know what another person is thinking? New research suggests we use the same brain region that we do when thinking about ourselves — but only as long as we ...     2008
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Adverse drug reactions a big killer

longooodays的BLOG -- Adverse drug reactions a big killer Bad reactions to pharmaceuticals account for 3% of deaths in Sweden. Daniel CresseyPill popping can be bad for your health.Alamy More than 3% of all deaths seem to be caused by adverse reactions to medical drugs, according to new research. If substantiated by further work, this would make 'fatal adverse drug reactions' (FADRs) the seventh most common cause of de...     2008
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The Most Famous Ghost Town in America

longooodays的BLOG -- The Most Famous Ghost Town in America Like a zombie, Bodie is in a permanent state of “arrested decay.” by Josie Glausiusz and Jane BosveldAbandoned for half a century, the mining town of Bodie, California, is now preserved in a state of "arrested decay" by the park system.Gaze into one of the ramshackle buildings in Bodie, California, and you might see dust-covered furniture, an old muffin pan, r...     2008
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The Neanderthal-Human Split: (Very) Ancient History

longooodays的BLOG -- The Neanderthal-Human Split: (Very) Ancient History Jennifer Viegas, Discovery NewsDistant Relative Neanderthals and humans once shared a common ancestor, but we split from the stocky, hairy hominid group as long as 400,000 to 350,000 years ago, concludes a new study. That estimate matches prior DNA studies, putting a date to the time when human beings first emerged on the planet. But would these ...     2008
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Space Robot Flexes Its Arms

longooodays的BLOG -- Space Robot Flexes Its Arms Liz Austin Peterson, Associated PressInstalling a Robot Astronauts flexed the giant arms of the International Space Station's new robot for the first time, testing the brakes and maneuvering the appendages into position for a Monday night spacewalk. All the brakes on the Canadian-built robot named Dextrepassed the test but one in the wrist joint of its left arm. That br...     2008
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Cup Of Black Tea Could Defend Against Athrax Threat, Research Suggests

longooodays的BLOG -- Cup Of Black Tea Could Defend Against Athrax Threat, Research Suggests A cup of black tea could be the next line of defence in the threat of bio-terrorism according to new international research. (Credit: iStockphoto/Daniel Chau) A cup of black tea could be the next line of defence in the threat of bio-terrorism according to new international research.A new study by an international team of resear...     2008
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Exploring A 'Lost' City Of The Mycenaeans

longooodays的BLOG -- Exploring A 'Lost' City Of The Mycenaeans Along an isolated, rocky stretch of Greek shoreline, a Florida State University researcher and his students are unlocking the secrets of a partially submerged, "lost" harbor town believed to have been built by the ancient Mycenaeans nearly 3,500 years ago. A Google Earth image, modified by Saronic Harbors Archaeological Research Project (SHARP) co-director...     2008
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Short-term Stress Can Affect Learning And Memory

longooodays的BLOG -- Short-term Stress Can Affect Learning And Memory Short-term stress lasting as little as a few hours can impair brain-cell communication in areas associated with learning and memory, University of California, Irvine researchers have found.                Spine stress. (Credit: Image courtesy of               Universityof California - Irvine) It has been known that severe stress lasting weeks or mon...     2008
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Climate change may spark conflict with Russia, EU told

longooodays的BLOG -- European governments have been told to plan for an era of conflict over energy resources, with global warming likely to trigger a dangerous contest between Russia and the west for the vast mineral riches of the Arctic.     2008
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Creature clones itself to avoid becoming fish food

longooodays的BLOG -- Creature clones itself to avoid becoming fish food Bottom-dwelling sand dollars are related to sea urchins and sea stars (Image: GNU licence) It's a novel escape route that makes a mockery of the status of the individual: if you run the risk of being eaten, just clone yourself.     2008
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Native Americans Traced to 6 'Founding Mothers'

longooodays的BLOG -- Native Americans Traced to 6 'Founding Mothers' Malcolm Ritter, Associated PressThe First Americans Nearly all of today's Native Americans in North, Central and South America can trace part of their ancestry to six women whose descendants immigrated around 20,000 years ago, a DNA study suggests. Those women left a particular DNA legacy that persists to today in about 95 percent of Native Americans...     2008
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