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One stop research shopping :The Scientist [3rd November 2009]Central online repository for info and resources for biomedical research
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The New Science of Temptation: Scientific AmericanThe New Science of Temptation What happens when Harvard scientists use a brain scanner to look for the devil inside? The power to resist temptation has been extolled by philosophers, psychologists, teachers, coaches, and mothers. Anyone with advice on how you should live your life has ...
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Before Flowers, Odd Bugs Pollinated Plants - Yahoo! NewsThese results come from an examination of fossils from 11 extinct species of scorpionflies (from three different families) that lived during the Mesozoic, which lasted from 251 million to 65.5 million years ago. Such insects have elongated heads that resemble snouts and are tipped with ...
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Caught in the act: Scientists find butterflies splitting into two speciesPolymorphic mimicry in Heliconius cydno alithea in western Ecuador, where the white form mimics the white species Heliconius sapho and the yellow form mimics the yellow species Heliconius eleuchia. Credit: Marcus Kronforst and Krushnamegh Kunte Breaking up may actually not be hard to do, say ...
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Map of Human Bacterial Diversity Shows Wide Interpersonal DifferencesA University of Colorado at Boulder team has developed the first atlas of bacterial diversity across the human body, charting wide variations in microbe populations that live in different regions of the human body and which aid us in physiological functions that contribute to our health. The ...
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3Researchers unlock the 'sound of learning' by linking sensory and motor systemsDUH. Nice that what we already pretty much intuitively knew is not proven though ...JDP added 4 days ago
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44Nanoantennas Could Enable Future Terabit Wireless Optical Quantum CommunicationThis would make backing up my data so much faster (though by the time this comes out I'll probably have a lot more data).macbraughton added 3 weeks ago
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Scientists discover bacterium that transmutes gold, were the alchemists right?Solid gold is formed by bacterium excrement. Were the ancient alchemists on to something?Tima Vlasto added 3 weeks ago
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13Online Extras: Ardipithecus ramidusThis is a free issue of Science with several articles on the 4.4 million year old Ardipithecus ramidus.Al Wood added 4 weeks ago
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3Hyenas Surprisingly Good at Cooperative Tasks | LiveScienceIntelligence, including cooperation, continues to "spread" - actually be shown to be more WIDE spread than previously supposed.JDP added 5 weeks ago
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