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News | Archive (12 August 2007)

Archived news stories published on 12 August 2007 [chronologically, reverse order]
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First super-Earth atmosphere analysed
First super-Earth atmosphere analysed — The planet GJ 1214b was discovered in 2009 using the HARPS instrument on ESO's 3.6-metre telescope in Chile. Initial findings…
Thin air - Cassini finds ethereal atmosphere at Rhea
Thin air - Cassini finds ethereal atmosphere at Rhea — NASA's Cassini spacecraft has detected a very tenuous atmosphere known as an exosphere, infused with oxygen and carbon dioxide…
Pulsating star mystery solved
Pulsating star mystery solved — The new results, from a team led by Grzegorz Pietrzynski (Universidad de Concepcion, Chile, Obserwatorium Astronomiczne Uniwersytetu…
Planet from another galaxy discovered
Planet from another galaxy discovered — Over the last 15 years, astronomers have detected nearly 500 planets orbiting stars in our cosmic neighbourhood, but none…

New fossils challenge established views on early evolution of our genus Homo

— 23:16 GMT | Geology and palaeontology

Two new fossils, described this week in the journal Nature, cast fresh light on a little understood and important period of human prehistory at the dawn of our own genus, Homo. The new fossils were discovered by the Koobi Fora Research Project, an international group of scientists directed by mother-daughter team Meave and Louise Leakey, and affiliated with the National Museums of Kenya (NMK). Human evolution over the last two million years is often portrayed as a linear succession of three species: Homo habilis to Homo erectus to ourselves, Homo sapiens. Of these, Homo erectus is commonly seen as the first human ancestor which is like us in many respects, but with a smaller brain…

MIT creates 3D images of living cell

— 18:13 GMT | Biology

A new imaging technique developed at MIT has allowed scientists to create the first 3D images of a living cell, using a method similar to the X-ray CT scans doctors use to see inside the body. The technique, described in a paper published in the current online edition of Nature Methods, could be used to produce the most detailed images yet of what goes on inside a living cell without the help of fluorescent markers or other externally added contrast agents, said Michael Feld, director of MIT's George R. Harrison Spectroscopy Laboratory and a professor of physics…

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