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Yerkes Researchers Discover Unique Language Feature in Humans

The center's extensive imaging capabilities were critical to this evolutionary language finding.Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center,…

Environmental Conservation

Black Carbon Pollution: A Key Factor in Global Warming

Black carbon, a form of particulate air pollution most often produced from biomass burning, cooking with solid fuels and diesel exhaust, has a warming effect…

Life & Chemistry

Therapeutic cloning treats Parkinson's disease in mice

For the first time, researchers showed that therapeutic cloning or SCNT has been successfully used to treat disease in the same subjects from whom the initial…

Environmental Conservation

Innovative Solutions to Combat the Global Water Crisis

As growing demand for clean water stretches even the resources of the world's largest industrialized nations, scientists and engineers are turning to new…

Life & Chemistry

Insights from Unique Human Genes: New Study Revealed

Despite the distinctive contributions these genes likely make to our species, little is known about the roles they play. Now scientists at Washington…

Physics & Astronomy

New Insights from Supernova Research Using Advanced Telescopes

Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Gemini Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton Observatory, two teams of international researchers, including…

Life & Chemistry

Scripps Florida Develops Process to Disrupt Hepatitis C Production

HCV is a significant human pathogen, infecting more than three percent of the world’s population. The incidence of infection in the United States has been…

Physics & Astronomy

Physicists Explore Quantum State Breakdown in New Study

Researchers at the U. S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Microsoft Station Q have made significant…

Life & Chemistry

Preventing Genetic Disease in Zebrafish With Innovative Genetic Patch

By injecting a customized “genetic patch” into early stage fish embryos, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis were able to…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

New Soybean Varieties Resist Root-Knot Nematodes in Indiana

The researchers verified that resistance in soybeans to one nematode parasite doesn't predict how well the plant will fight off another nematode species, said…

Earth Sciences

“Nanominerals” Influence Earth Systems from Ocean to Atmosphere to Biosphere

So states a team of researchers from seven universities in a paper published in this week's issue of the journal Science: “Nanominerals, Mineral Nanoparticles,…

Life & Chemistry

Tuatara: Exploring the Fastest Evolving Species Today

In a study of New Zealand’s “living dinosaur” the tuatara, evolutionary biologist, and ancient DNA expert, Professor David Lambert and his team from the Allan…

Life & Chemistry

New Enzyme Created by Scientists at UW and Weizmann Institute

A team of scientists from the University of Washington, Seattle, and the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, has succeeded in creating a new type of enzyme…

Physics & Astronomy

Rare Cosmic Rays Found to Originating From Distant Sources

Final results from the University of Utah’s High-Resolution Fly’s Eye cosmic ray observatory show that the most energetic particles in the universe rarely…

Environmental Conservation

Ground Penetrating Radar Reveals Hidden Water Processes

SON, WI, March 17, 2008 — To meet the needs of a growing population and to provide it with a higher quality of life, increasing pressures are being placed on…

Physics & Astronomy

Stellar Explosion Insights: Supernova Study Unveils Secrets

Using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, ESA's XMM-Newton Observatory, and the Gemini Observatory, two teams of researchers studied the supernova…

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