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News | Archive (5 September 2010)

Archived news stories published on 5 September 2010 [chronologically, reverse order]
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Mobile Neanderthals
Mobile Neanderthals — A 40,000-year-old tooth has provided scientists with the first direct evidence that Neanderthals moved from place to place…
Hareless: Yellowstone's rabbits have vanished
Hareless: Yellowstone's rabbits have vanished — A new study by the Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society found that jack rabbits living in the Greater Yellowstone…
Two new planets discovered in a faraway solar system
Two new planets discovered in a faraway solar system — An international team of astronomers has discovered two planets that resemble smaller versions of Jupiter and Saturn in a…
Titan's surface organics surpass oil reserves on Earth
Titan's surface organics surpass oil reserves on Earth — Saturn's orange moon Titan has hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves…

DNA fingerprinting pioneer discovers role of key genetic catalyst for human diversity

— 17:38 GMT | Biology

One of the key drivers of human evolution and diversity, accounting for changes that occur between different generations of people, is explained by new research published today (Sept 5) by world-renowned scientist Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys, who discovered DNA fingerprinting at the University of Leicester…

'Slow light' on a chip holds promise for optical communications

— 17:38 GMT | Technology

A tiny optical device built into a silicon chip has achieved the slowest light propagation on a chip to date, reducing the speed of light by a factor of 1,200 in a study reported in Nature Photonics (published online September 5 and in the November print issue)…

Biologists find way to reduce stem cell loss during cancer treatment

— 17:38 GMT | Health

Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have discovered that a gene critical for programmed cell death is also important in the loss of adult stem cells, a finding that could help to improve the health and well-being of patients undergoing cancer treatment…

MIT researchers create new self-assembling photovoltaic technology that repairs itself

— 17:38 GMT | Technology

Plants are good at doing what scientists and engineers have been struggling to do for decades: converting sunlight into stored energy, and doing so reliably day after day, year after year. Now some MIT scientists have succeeded in mimicking a key aspect of that process…

Researchers identify protein that fights West Nile virus

— 17:38 GMT | Health

Yale and McGill University scientists have identified a protein that is critical in fighting mosquito-borne West Nile Virus in mice. This finding could have therapeutic implications for controlling the potentially deadly virus in humans. The study appears in the Advance Online Publication of Nature Immunology…

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