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Research & Innovations";"Understand how advancements in environmental research and innovation are changing the world.

  • Antimatter mystery: Does it fall up or down?

    Wed, May 01, 2013 9:44 AM by Clara Moskowitz, LiveScience

    Scientists are about 5 years away from setting up an experiment that slows down antiparticles enough to track their movements.

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  • How flower petals get their shape

    Wed, May 01, 2013 8:40 AM by Denise Chow, LiveScience

    A study found that concealed maps within flower buds are made up of patterns of arrows that act as instructions for how each cell in the bud should grow.

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  • Alien-looking skeleton poses medical mystery

    Tue, Apr 30, 2013 4:40 PM by Jeanna Bryner, LiveScience

    The 6-inch-long skeleton has several anomalies, including its alien-like skull, teensy body and the fact that it has just 10 ribs rather than 12.

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  • Alexander Graham Bell speaks again

    Thu, Apr 25, 2013 6:00 PM by Jillian Scharr, TechNewsDaily

    A voice recording of Alexander Graham Bell’s father was recovered on this wax-coated drum, which was shipped to Berkeley Lab earlier this year for analysis.

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  • Where the new bird flu virus may have started

    Thu, Apr 25, 2013 10:46 AM by Rachael Rettner, MyHealthNewsDaily

    Poultry markets in China provide a conducive environment for strains of the virus to mingle and mutate.

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  • Sea turtles inspire flippered robot

    Thu, Apr 25, 2013 9:57 AM by Charles Q. Choi, TechNewsDaily

    The robots could also help conserve endangered sea turtles by giving insight into environmental factors.

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  • Why antimatter loses out to matter

    Wed, Apr 24, 2013 3:44 PM by Clara Moskowitz, LiveScience

    Rare mesons may be influencing particles, but scientists will have to wait until 2015 to fully test their hypotheses.

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  • Man with hole in stomach revolutionized medicine

    Wed, Apr 24, 2013 1:31 PM by Tia Ghose, LiveScience

    A gunshot wound in 1822 has informed science about digestion and fevers for decades.

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  • DNA mystery: Why Europeans vanished 4,500 years ago

    Wed, Apr 24, 2013 10:12 AM by Tia Ghose, LiveScience

    The earliest farmers in Germany were closely related to Near Eastern and Anatolian people, suggesting migrations of people into Europe.

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  • White House Science Fair astonishes Obama

    Tue, Apr 23, 2013 10:18 AM by Jenn Savedge

    Young scientists from across the nation amaze President Obama with their inventions at this year's White House Science Fair.

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  • What does the average American know about science?

    Mon, Apr 22, 2013 8:00 PM by Megan Gannon, LiveScience

    The U.S. public's knowledge of basic science and technology varies widely, according to the results of a survey by the Pew Research Center.

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  • Ancient snail shells hint at future global warming

    Mon, Apr 22, 2013 3:30 PM by Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience

    Researchers examined how carbon and oxygen isotopes were bound together in fossils, which told them how chilly or warm the water was when the snails lived.

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  • 7 ways to trick your brain

    Mon, Apr 22, 2013 3:30 PM by Douglas Main, LiveScience

    Mental shortcuts and shortcomings, which allow us to be tricked, also show us how the brain works.

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  • How terrorists can repress empathy

    Wed, Apr 17, 2013 8:00 AM by Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience

    Some people respond to feelings of powerlessness by turning to humanitarian aims, but would-be terrorists draw on violent ideologies.

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  • The real 'hobbit' had larger brain than thought

    Tue, Apr 16, 2013 7:20 PM by Charles Choi, LiveScience

    The findings add to evidence that the hobbit was a unique species of humans after all, not a deformed modern human.

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