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Discovery of new cave millipedes casts light on Arizona cave ecology
03-02-2007 · EurekAlert!Discovery of new cave millipedes casts light on Arizona cave ecology.
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- The world's oldest bacteria
08-27-2007 · EurekAlert!
A research team has for the first time ever discovered DNA from living bacteria that are more than half a million years old. Never before has traces of still living organisms that old been found. The exceptional discovery can lead to a better understanding of the ageing of cells and might even cast light on the question of life on Mars.
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- Arizona State University scientist finds Martian ice is patchy and variable
05-02-2007 · EurekAlert!
For the first time, scientists have found that water ice lies at variable depths over small-scale patches on the Red Planet. The discovery draws a much more detailed picture of underground ice on Mars than was previously available. The new results, by a researcher in Arizona State University's School of Earth and Space Exploration, will appear in Nature. The findings come from data sent back to Earth by THEMIS on NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter.
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- HYMS researchers focus on human evolution
12-21-2006 · EurekAlert!
A Hull York Medical School researcher has played a key role in a study which has cast important new light on Neanderthals.
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- 'Holy Grail' of hearing: True identity of pivotal hearing structure is revealed
09-05-2007 · EurekAlert!
Researchers have shed new light on the hearing process by identifying two proteins that compose a key hearing structure where sound vibrations are converted into electrical signals. The discovery is described by some scientists as one of the holy grails of the field.
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- CU-Boulder worm study sheds light on human aging, inherited diseases
10-01-2007 · EurekAlert!
Microscopic worms used for scientific research are living longer despite cellular defects, a discovery that is shedding light on how the human body ages and how doctors could one day limit or reverse genetic mutations that cause inherited diseases, according to a new University of Colorado at Boulder study.
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- New light trap captures larval stage of new species; DNA barcode technology used
10-23-2007 · EurekAlert!
Researcher's new light trap captures larval stage of new species of goby fish; this discovery marks the first vertebrate to have its genetic barcode included in its original species description.
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- Old developmental pathways spawn revolutionary evolutionary changes
09-06-2007 · EurekAlert!
When the larvae of the primitive social insect Polistes metricus, a paper wasp, slips into the quiet pupal stage, she doesn't know if she'll arise a worker or gyne (future queen) -- unless she consults with Arizona State University's social insect researcher Gro Amdam. Amdam's group is shedding new light on the development of colonial insects from solitary ancestors through study of a primitive social order of wasps.
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- Geisinger rheumatologists redesign osteoporosis, rheumatoid arthritis care
11-16-2007 · EurekAlert!
Geisinger Health System recently improved the ordering process for DXA scans, more than quadrupling the number of patients who received a bone density test for osteoporosis. Testing for the painful disease is the first step in getting care to patients. Details of the new program were presented at the recent American College of Rheumatology conference, along with results of three other studies that cast new light osteoporosis and rheumatoid arthritis treatment.
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- ASU discovery may aid counter-terrorism efforts
10-12-2006 · EurekAlert!
The thwarted 2006 London airline bomb plot not only heightened summer travel fears and created new passenger screening inconveniences, but also greatly underscored the urgent need for improved national security measures. Now, professor Joe Wang, director of the Center for Biosensors and Bioelectronics at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University, has developed a highly sensitive technology to rapidly detect liquid peroxide explosives in as little as 15 seconds.
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- Why is the Hercules Dwarf Galaxy so flat?
09-14-2007 · EurekAlert!
Through some of the very first scientific observations with the brand-new Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona, an international team of astronomers has found that a recently discovered tiny companion galaxy to our Milky Way, named the Hercules Dwarf Galaxy, has truly exceptional properties: while basically all of its known peers in the realm of these tiny dwarf galaxies are rather round, this galaxy at a distance of 430,000 light years appears highly flattened, either the shape of a disk or of a cigar.
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