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Give Us This Day the Bread Wheat Genome
17 Jul 2014
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A preliminary map of the bread wheat genome includes the locations of more than 75,000 genes. Cynthia Graber reports Learn more about your ad ch...
Supercooled Organs Could Stretch Time to Transplant
09 Jul 2014
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Liver transplant time from human donor to patient is limited to 12 hours, but rats that got livers specially stored for three days were going strong t...
Space-Based Data Collection Better Predicts Floods
08 Jul 2014
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Satellite data can help geologists predict major floods up to 11 months in advance in areas where snow melt or groundwater is a significant contributo...
Mobile Phones Carry Owners' Microbiomes
02 Jul 2014
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The bacteria found on someone's mobile phone is a good match for the most common kinds of bacteria that live on their hands. Christopher Intagliata re...
Malarial Mice Smell Better to Mosquitoes
01 Jul 2014
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Mice infected with the parasites that cause their type of malaria produce odorous compounds that attract mosquitoes, increasing the odds that the para...
Neandertal Diners Had Side of Veggies
27 Jun 2014
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By analyzing what came out of Neandertals, researchers have verified that at least some of them mixed vegetation into their meaty diet. Cynthia Graber...
21-Second Rule Governs Mammal Micturition
25 Jun 2014
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All mammals that weigh more than about six-and-a-half pounds take about the same time to urinate, thanks to the structure of the urethra. Karen Hopkin...
Dwarf Galaxies Really Cooking with Gas
25 Jun 2014
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The smallest galaxies in the universe gave rise to an unexpectedly large proportion of stars. Karen Hopkin reports Learn more about your ad choi...
Cool Kids Get Schooled with Age
23 Jun 2014
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Kids deemed cool in early adolescence have a poor chance to keep that status by their early 20s, because their behavior gets old. Erika Beras reports ...
White Bread May Actually Build Strong Bodies 1 Way
20 Jun 2014
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The guts of white bread eaters appear to contain more lactobacillus, a type of bacteria that wards off digestive disorders. Karen Hopkin reports ...
Plant Spores Hitch Long-Distance Feather Rides
18 Jun 2014
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Tiny spores from mosses, algae and lichens can stick in bird feathers, travel from the Arctic to the bottom of South America and grow into whole new s...
Jellyfish Galaxies Get Guts Ripped Out
17 Jun 2014
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Recently discovered galaxies shaped like jellyfish leave a long trail of hot gas and dust, victims of even hotter gas from their surrounding cluster o...
2-Face Moon Tells How It Got That Way
13 Jun 2014
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A new analysis says that the asymmetry between the two faces of the moon is due to crust thickness differences that resulted from variable cooling rat...
Classroom Decorations Can Distract Young Students
11 Jun 2014
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Five-year-olds in highly decorated classrooms were less able to hold their focus, spent more time off-task and had smaller learning gains than kids in...
Kid Scientist Finds Sweet Pest Control
10 Jun 2014
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Eleven-year-old Simon Kaschock-Marenda's science fair project led to a publication about the insecticidal effects of the sweetener Truvia. Karen Hopki...
Light Colors Become Fashion Rage for Northern Europe's Insects
09 Jun 2014
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As northern Europe warms, the light-colored butterflies and dragonflies typically found in the Mediterranean are moving north, and outcompeting their ...
London Fish Chip Away at Historical Unknowns
06 Jun 2014
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Isotope composition within fish tails found in London archaeological digs shows that the city began importing cod from northern Scandinavia some 800 y...
Meteor Storm Went from Sizzle to Fizzle
04 Jun 2014
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The May Camelopardalids meteor outburst turned out to be a dud, because meteor storm prediction is not a sure thing, unlike, for example, calculating ...