Titan is in the spotlight again. The Cassini probe has provided once more valuable data that scientist are analysing and that confirms the fact that there are heavy negative ions in the upper regions of Titan’s atmosphere. These could be the organic building blocks for molecules and this discovery is unexpected because of the chemical [...]
Thursday, November 29, 2007
The growing economic strength of the European Union is something most europeans are proud of but what most are not aware of is that this growth has doubled the ecological pressure on the planet in the past 30 years, according to a WWF report; they stand for World Wildlife Fund and they provided the materials. [...]
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
So Charles Darwin called it the “abominable mystery” of early plant evolution. But the University of Florida and University of Texas at Austin scientists have shed light on what was and is a very intriguing thing. The scientists are reporting that the two largest groups of flowering plants are more closely related to each other than [...]
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
The scientists from the University of Delaware and the University of California at Riverside have thawed ice estimated to be at least a million years old from above Lake Vostok. This lake is hidden more than two miles beneath the frozen surface of Antarctica and it is very ancient which determined de scientists to choose [...]
Thursday, November 22, 2007
We have another piece of evidence which goes to show that we fail to understand numerous things about our universe. Astronomers have discovered white dwarf stars with pure carbon atmospheres. It is something that probably nobody would have believed. These stars could have evolved in ways that astronomers did not know. They believe that this kind [...]
Thursday, November 22, 2007
The foods which are good to you are not just limited to spinach and broccoli; numerous people would want to eat healthy foods but they find that these foods are just not tasty. For them there is a new generation of superfoods that promise to do double or triple-duty in what concerns health. Here are [...]
Monday, November 19, 2007
Nature has a way of defending itself and even things which we fail to understand play their part. The reef helps protect the shore from devastating waves and tsunamis. The recent tragic events were in a way just a reflection of what we are doing to the planet. Massive man made constructions were no way [...]
Monday, November 19, 2007
It may not rank among the top 10 causes of death, but decompression sickness could be deadly. Using a $400,000 grant from the U.S. Navy to develop the first optical non-invasive tool to test those most likely to suffer from decompression sickness, such as scuba divers a University of Houston professor is developing a laser-based [...]
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Heather Hallen is a Michigan State University plant biology research associate who has been looking for the poison in the wrong place for years. Alpha-amanitin is the poison of the death cap mushroom, Amanita phalloides. She was searching for a big gene that makes a big enzyme that produces alpha-amanitin. But she found out that this [...]
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Nanotech could be applied in just about everything. With time scientists find out ways to apply it to various fields; building small, efficient electronics could be very useful in further use of nanotechnology. A University of Arkansas physicist and her colleagues have examined the response of the nanostructures polarization to electric fields which is known as [...]
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