Biological Sciences
There is evidence that some microbial life had migrated from the Earth’s oceans to land by 2.75 billion years ago, though many scientists believe such land-based life was limited...
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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new computational method for identifying candidate refrigerant fluids with low "global warming potential."
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Single-celled algae and nitrogen-fixing bacteria help fertilize the oceans.
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An electronic tag designed at the University of Washington can for the first time see when birds meet in the wild.
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Camptothecin analog FL118 shown to inhibit production of key cancer survival genes.
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Global climate change means that recently discovered ancient forests in Canada's extreme north could one day return, according to Alexandre Guertin-Pasquier of the University of Montreal's Department of Geography.
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Shoppers—particularly women—who take the time to read food labels are thinner than those who don’t, a new study has found.
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Lithium chloride enables neutron studies of protein/solvent interactions at supercold temperatures.
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Pattern may be used in forensics to help determine where a particular bacterial strain originates.
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Chemists led by Vincent Rotello at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have developed a rapid, sensitive way to detect microscopic levels of many different metastatic cell types in living tissue.
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Scientists at the UCSF-affiliated Gladstone Institutes have revealed the precise order and timing of hundreds of genetic “switches” required to construct a fully functional heart from embryonic heart cells.
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Federica Brandizzi, Michigan State University plant biologist, is using a grant from the National Institutes of Health to study how plants overcome stress as they grow.
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