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Astronomers Detect Distant, Ancient Star Explosion
Paris :: France | 26 days ago
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Astronomers say they've detected the most distant object anyone has yet seen from Earth. Two teams of scientists actually made the discovery, which they report in the current issue of Nature . Nial Tanvir from the University of Leicester in England was...
Tags: universe, explosion, space, distant object, exploded star, Earth, ray burst, journal nature, star explosion, dark ages
Genetic 'typos' open new doors in breast cancer research
Toronto :: Canada | about 1 month ago
Credibility The 32 genetic "typos" are tiny, but they tell an intriguing story of one women's breast cancer. Five gene mutations played lead rolls when her cancer first showed up, with another six mutations in supporting rolls. When tumours recurred nine years later,...
Tags: breast cancer, cancer tumour, cancer research, Dr. Samuel Aparicio, journal nature
Indian population is 'genetic hotchpotch' of two different ancestral groups
Hyderabad :: India | 2 months ago
Credibility Now, according to a report by Nature News, a team led by David Reich of the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Lalji Singh of the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology in Hyderabad, India, has probed more than 560,000 SNPs (single nucleotide...
Tags: Indian, Nature News, indians populations, tribal groups, south indians, diverse groups, journal nature
Woman found host to guerilla-emanated HIV
Paris :: France | 3 months ago
Credibility Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:46:54 GMT A Cameroonian woman is found to carry an unforeseen strain of HIV-1 emanated from guerillas unlike the known species of the virus. The tests were carried out in Paris were the woman had travelled to from her homeland, read...
Tags: Nature Medicine, Cameroonian, immunodeficiency virus, hiv infected, human immunodeficiency, journal nature
Chimps die of Aids
Dar es Salaam :: Tanzania | 4 months ago
Credibility The only non-human primate known to be susceptible is a monkey, the Asian rhesus macaque, which is often used as a surrogate for humans in lab tests involving SIV. But a paper published in the British journal Nature by primatologists working in Gombe...
Tags: journal nature
Prehistoric flute in Germany is oldest known
Berlin :: Germany | 5 months ago
Credibility A bird-bone flute unearthed in a German cave was carved some 35,000 years ago and is the oldest handcrafted musical instrument yet discovered, archaeologists say, offering the latest evidence that early modern humans in Europe had established a complex...
Tags: Germany, Europe, music instrument, bone flutes, modern human, southwestern germany, journal nature, oldest music
Researchers create DVDs with massive storage
London :: United Kingdom | 6 months ago
Credibility A team from Swinburne University of Technology in Australia said that by harnessing nanoparticles and a "polarisation" dimension to existing technology, storage can be massively boosted without changing the size of a current disc. The researchers, who...
Oldest depiction of the female form
Berlin :: Germany | 6 months ago
Credibility British archeologist Paul Mellars, who wrote an article accompanying Dr. Conard's paper in Nature, said that by 21st-century standards the figurine “could be seen as bordering on pornographic.” Other sites in Germany and France from the same period have...
Tags: Germany, Venus, oldest known, journal nature, venus figurine, figurative art, Hohle Fels Cave, voluptuous woman, known example, Nicholas Conard
Long-term carbon emissions the real threat
Brussels :: Belgium | 6 months ago
Credibility Less than a quarter of the world’s proven reserves of fossil fuels can be burnt if the world wants to avoid a high risk of dangerous levels of global warming, research suggests. The risk of severe climate change is mainly determined by the total amount...
Tags: fossil fuels, global warming, carbon dioxide, climate change, journal nature, trillion tonnes, proven reserves, global temperature
Scientists see asteroid hurtle to Earth
Umm Durmān :: Sudan | 8 months ago
Credibility Stunned astronomers watched a car-sized asteroid explode into a brilliant meteor shower as it crashed into Earth's atmosphere , and then wandered into a Sudan desert to pick up the pieces, a study released Wednesday reported. It was the first time ever...
Tags: Earth, Sudan, journal nature, Nature
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