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• Measuring The Speed of Evolution

  
  Scienceray — Authority: 507
      While the workings of evolution and its long term effects are well known, the time frame over which they occur is largely uncharted territory. The Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen, Germany, went out to find some figures by testing the genetic set-up of Arabidopsis thaliana ...
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• Human cultures influence the way we dance (EARTHtimes.org)

  
  Adam Dicker | Domain Expert — Authority: 160
  Hamburg – If your dancing instructor asked you to step left, you would swiftly comply. But how would you react if he asked you to step south?In a new study, a cross-disciplinary team of the Max Planck Institutes for Psycholinguistics (Nijmegen, Nethe… Read the original here: Human cultures influence the way we ...
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• Mere nods or raised eyebrows convey many meanings

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 734
  London, Jan 1 (IANS) Facial expressions can convey a world of meaning with just a mere nod or raised eyebrows, according to a new study.A nod implies understanding, while a frown may indicate disapproval. Scientists from Max Planck’s Institute for Biological Cybernetics discovered that we are able to classify an ...
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• Foolproof way to read ancient DNA samples developed

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 734
  London, Jan 1 (IANS) Researchers have developed a foolproof way to analyse DNA samples from human remains 30,000 years ago, allowing a direct look into the history of evolution.DNA - the hereditary material contained in the nuclei and mitochondria of all body cells - is a hardy molecule and can persist, conditions ...
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• Scientists catch evolution in the act

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 734
  Berlin, January 1 (ANI): An international team of scientists has directly measured for the first time the speed with which new mutations occur in plants, thus capturing evolution in the act.The team comprised of scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tubingen, Germany, and Indiana ...
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• Analyzing DNA directly from 30,000-year-old modern humans now made possible

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 734
  Washington, January 1 (ANI): A team of scientists has shown how it is possible to directly analyze DNA from ancient modern humans who lived around 30,000 years ago.DNA that is left in the remains of long-dead plants, animals, or humans allows a direct look into the history of evolution. So far, studies of this kind ...
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• Einstein’s Generation by Richard Staley, Pt. 2

  
  Ether Wave Propaganda — Authority: 111
  Forgetting is integral to scientific advance, but neither our understanding of the process of science nor our appreciation of its historical development can accept the limitations imposed by such forgetfulness. (Einstein’s Generation, p. 420) David Edgerton has introduced the term “anti-history” to ...
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• Your Incredible Shrinking Brain

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  As a student, I was naturally interested in brain science - how did that mass between our ears work? Certainly some strides had been made in understand the different functions of all those little gray cells but it was still an area that was much in need of addition research. The techniques then available for tapping ...
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• Science, media, and Loch Ness “monsters”

  
  HIV/AIDS Skepticism — Authority: 118
  In memoriam, Robert H. Rines Long ago — in the 1930s— “The Loch Ness Monster” became an icon of foolishness,  hoax, tourist-trapping by canny Scots Highlanders, and the like. And so it has remained for some 7 decades for everyone whose knowledge comes only from media sound-bites and shibboleths. The ...
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• Computers can only figure out a painting’s intricacies

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 734
  London, Dec 24 (IANS) Computers can pretty well figure out the colour composition or aesthetics of paintings, but still lag behind humans in interpreting art.How does one place an artwork in a particular artistic period? This is the question raised by scientists from the Laboratory of Graphics and Image in the ...
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• Do computers understand art?

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 154
  (FECYT - Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology) A team of researchers from the University of Girona and the Max Planck Institute in Germany has shown that some mathematical algorithms provide clues about the artistic style of a painting. The composition of colors or certain aesthetic measurements can already ...
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• Dallastown grad part of major astronomy discovery – York Daily Record

  
  Paranominal — Authority: 163
  Dallastown grad part of major astronomy discoveryYork Daily RecordThere, he got involved in a cooperative effort involving Princeton, the University of Hawaii, the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg and the …read the full article
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• Mechanism behind brain metastases of cancer identified

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 734
  London, Dec 21 (ANI): Scientists from LMU Munich have identified a mechanism behind brain metastases of cancer patients.Led by neurologist Dr. Frank Winkler, the research team followed, in real time, the steps that lead some tumour cells to establish metastases, while others fail to form new tumours. They discovered ...
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• Your culture influences the way you dance

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 734
  London, Dec 21 (IANS) One’s cultural affiliations have a bearing on the way one dances, according to a new study.The way people remember dance moves depends on the culture they come from, the study says.Whereas a German or other Westerners might think in terms of ’step to the right, step to the left,’ a nomadic ...
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• The Urge to Help

  
  Through Your Body: — Authority: 120
  The Urge to Help We May Be Born With an Urge to Help By NICHOLAS WADE What is the essence of human nature? Flawed, say many theologians. Vicious and addicted to warfare, wrote Hobbes. Selfish and in need of considerable improvement, think many parents. But biologists are beginning to form a generally sunnier ...
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• Proposed Spacetime Structure Could Provide Hints for Quantum Gravity Theory

  
  Newsvine - JCAtom's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 132
  As Kempf explains, the underlying mathematical structure of information theory in this framework is sampling theory - that is, samples taken at a generic discrete set of points can be used to reconstruct the shape of the information (or spacetime) everywhere down to a specific cu …
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• Black Holes in Star Clusters Stir up Time and Space (w/ Video)

  
  Newsvine - JCAtom's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 132
  Within a decade scientists could be able to detect the merger of tens of pairs of black holes every year, according to a team of astronomers at the University of Bonns Argelander-Institut fuer Astronomie...More Articles
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• I think step to the left, you think step to the east

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 595
  Even the way people remember dance moves depends on the culture they come from, according to a report in the December 14th issue of Current Biology , a Cell Press publication. Whereas a German or other Westerner might think in terms of "step to the right, step to the left," a nomadic hunter-gatherer from Namibia ...
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• December 14 in history

  
  Homepaddock — Authority: 544
  On December 14: 1287 St. Lucia’s flood : The Zuider Zee sea wall in the Netherlands collapsed, killing more than 50,000 people. 1503 Nostradamus , French astrologer, was born.   1542 Princess Mary Stuart beccame Queen Mary I of Scotland .  1751 The Theresian Military Academy was ...
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• Podcast: Heat

  
  Slacker Astronomy — Authority: 106
  Our last episode of the 2009 version of the 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast aired today, December 12th, 2009 . We put the extended version of this episode on the Slacker Astronomy feed, or you can listen right now using the player below. Our topic is heat and we discuss heat, temperature, thermodynamics, black bodies ...
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