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Sex or death for trembling aspen
BBC News | Science & Environment 18/08/2010Certain trees can clone themselves suggesting they could live forever and avoid extinction, but a new study dashes that hope....
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'Terror bird' was prize fighter
BBC News | Science & Environment 18/08/2010Scientists show how the giant, flightless terror birds that roamed South America for millions of years would have taken down their prey....
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Hope for future fight against TB
BBC News | Science & Environment 18/08/2010International researchers say they have taken a "significant step" towards developing a predictive blood test for TB....
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Light shed on black hole mystery
BBC News | Science & Environment 18/08/2010Discovery of a rare magnetic star challenges theories about the origin of black holes, astronomers claim....
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Studying yeast to better understand male infertility
AlphaGalileo 17/08/2010Men and yeast have something in common: they use the same molecular process to ensure the integrity of their gene pool during reproduction. This is a recent finding by researchers from CNRS, Inserm and the Université Joseph Fourier in Greno...
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Satellite tracks Pakistan floods
BBC News | Science & Environment 17/08/2010Europe's Smos "water satellite" uses its innovative sensor to track the saturated soils of flood-stricken Pakistan....
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New insights could mean better fish feeds
AlphaGalileo 16/08/2010A better understanding of what happens in a fish?s body when it eats could lead to the production of better fish feeds. Researchers at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, are hoping to contribute to more energy-efficient aquaculture. In t...
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Neue Erkenntnisse ermöglichen effektiveres Fischfutter
AlphaGalileo 16/08/2010Durch neue Erkenntnisse darüber, was im Körper bei der Nahrungsaufnahme von Fischen geschieht, lässt sich besseres Fischfutter herstellen. Forscher der Universität Göteborg hoffen, damit einen Beitrag zu einer effektiveren Wasserwirtschaft ...
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Hydrogen causes metal to break
AlphaGalileo 16/08/2010Hydrogen is considered the fuel of the future. Yet this lightest of the chemical elements can embrittle the metals used in vehicle engineering. The result: components suddenly malfunction and break. A new special laboratory is aiding resear...
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Too Hot to handle: Impacts of Climate Change on Mussels
AlphaGalileo 16/08/2010Climate change is causing higher air and water temperatures along the east coast of the United States. These changes have shrunk the geographic region where blue mussels are able to survive, according to findings by University of South Caro...
