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McDonald's recalls Shrek glasses due to potential cadmium risk — The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) just announced…
Hogchoker - the new Internet star — A small flatfish living along the coast of North America is the…
Cancer deaths are projected to double by 2030 — Cancer deaths are projected to double in the next two decades.…

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Wasps clock faces like humans — Face recognition in golden paper wasps may be an adaptation to…
Entangled diamonds vibrate together — Objects big enough for the eye to see have been placed in a weirdly…
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News | Archive (30 January 2011)

Archived news stories published on 30 January 2011 [chronologically, reverse order]
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A mid-level solar flare seen by NASA
A mid-level solar flare seen by NASA — A mid-level solar flare, peaking on 3 May, was seen by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. This flare was classified as an…
Strange new 'species' of ultra-red galaxy discovered
Strange new 'species' of ultra-red galaxy discovered — In the distant reaches of the universe, almost 13 billion light-years from Earth, a strange species of galaxy lay hidden.…
Cassini chronicles life of Saturn's giant storm
Cassini chronicles life of Saturn's giant storm — New images and animated movies from NASA's Cassini spacecraft chronicle the birth and evolution of the colossal storm that…
Scientists create light from vacuum
Scientists create light from vacuum — Scientists at Chalmers University of Technology have succeeded in creating light from vacuum - observing an effect first…

New transistors: An alternative to silicon and better than graphene

— 19:04 GMT | Technology

Smaller and more energy-efficient electronic chips could be made using molybdenite. In an article appearing online January 30 in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, EPFL's Laboratory of Nanoscale Electronics and Structures (LANES) publishes a study showing that this material has distinct advantages over traditional silicon or graphene for use in electronics applications…

Salk researchers discover that stem cell marker regulates synapse formation

— 19:04 GMT | Biology

Among stem cell biologists there are few better-known proteins than nestin, whose very presence in an immature cell identifies it as a 'stem cell,' such as a neural stem cell. As helpful as this is to researchers, until now no one knew which purpose nestin serves in a cell…

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