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Scientists Announce Top 10 New Species

Saturday, May 23rd, 2009 - 10:16:07 - Anuradha Menon

A pea-sized seahorse, the world's longest insect, a "ghost slug" and the world's smallest snake were among the top 10 species discovered in 2008, a...

Nature Inspired Robots
Friday, May 15th, 2009 - Sarah Gingichashvili
Robotics researchers are increasingly turning to nature for inspiration. Watch a robotic salamander that moves from water to...

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'Velcro' Flowers Helps Bees Collect Nectar

Friday, May 15th, 2009 - 12:11:34 - Anuradha Menon

When bees collect nectar, how do they hold onto the flower? Cambridge University scientists have shown that it is down to small cone-shaped cells on...

Molecule of Life Emerges from Slime

Thursday, May 14th, 2009 - 14:17:32 - Anuradha Menon

Creating life in the primordial soup may have been easier than we thought. Two essential elements of RNA have finally been made from scratch, under...

Fish that Triggers Hallucinations Found

Thursday, May 14th, 2009 - 10:10:18 - Anuradha Menon

The species of bream is normally found in the balmier waters of the Mediterranean and South Africa, was found by fisherman Andy Giles in his nets in...

Stem Cells
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 - Sarah Gingichashvili
Stem cells are cells found in most, if not all, multi-cellular organisms. They are characterized by the ability to renew...

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The Complexity of a Cell
Monday, May 11th, 2009 - Sarah Gingichashvili
Completed in 2003, the Human Genome Project (HGP) was an international scientific research project with a primary goal to...

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Flight of the Bumble Bee Inefficient

Sunday, May 10th, 2009 - 17:56:03 - Ehud Rattner

Brute force rather than aerodynamic efficiency is the key to bumblebee flight, Oxford University scientists have discovered. Scientists found that...

DNA Twisted into Boxes

Friday, May 8th, 2009 - 16:25:54 - Sarah Gingichashvili

A multidisciplinary team of researchers has created tiny DNA strongboxes measuring just 30 nanometres on each side. The boxes, which can be unlocked...

A Peek into DNA Structure
Thursday, April 30th, 2009 - Sarah Gingichashvili
Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning...

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