Domestic animals will choose to steer clear of dirt – but their wild cousins can't be so picky and may be at increased risk of disease as a result.
Plants & Animals
Oct 20, 2013
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Microsoft has pulled a Windows update from its website after it caused problems on some customers' devices.
Software
Oct 20, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Bioengineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have shown that physical cues can replace certain chemicals when nudging mature cells back to a pluripotent stage, capable of becoming any cell type in ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 20, 2013
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Trucks loaded with tomatoes, milk and almonds clog the two main highways that bisect California's farm heartland, carrying goods to millions along the Pacific Coast and beyond. This dusty stretch of land is the starting point ...
Engineering
Oct 20, 2013
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In a collaborative study published online today in Nature Genetics, researchers from the Genome Centre of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), BGI, and other institutes present a cucumber genomic variation map ...
Biotechnology
Oct 20, 2013
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Johns Hopkins researchers used suction to learn that individual "molecular muscles" within cells respond to different types of force, a finding that may explain how cells "feel" the environment and appropriately adapt their ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 20, 2013
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Cell biologists at The Johns Hopkins University have teased apart two integral components of the machinery that causes cells to move. Their discovery shows that cellular projections, which act as hands to help a cell "crawl," ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 20, 2013
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Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a general approach for combining different types of nanoparticles to produce large-scale composite materials. The technique, described ...
Nanomaterials
Oct 20, 2013
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A quick glance at a world precipitation map shows that most tropical rain falls in the Northern Hemisphere. The Palmyra Atoll, at 6 degrees north, gets 175 inches of rain a year, while an equal distance on the opposite side ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 20, 2013
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Time is a huge impediment when it comes to working together to halt the effects of climate change, new research suggests.
Environment
Oct 20, 2013
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