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Boiling point
— 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…
— How animals predict earthquakes — Animals may sense chemical changes in groundwater that occur…
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News | Archive (31 August 2007)

Archived news stories published on 31 August 2007 [chronologically, reverse order]
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Spring has sprung on Titan
Spring has sprung on Titan — NASA's Cassini spacecraft has sent back dreamy raw images of Saturn's moon Titan that show the appearance of clouds around…
Astronomers find weird, warm spot on an exoplanet
Astronomers find weird, warm spot on an exoplanet — Observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveal a distant planet with a warm spot in the wrong place. The gas-giant…
Hartley 2 visible in night sky
Hartley 2 visible in night sky — Backyard stargazers with a telescope or binoculars and a clear night's sky can now inspect the comet that in a little over…
Pinwheel of star birth
Pinwheel of star birth — Though the universe is chock full of spiral-shaped galaxies, no two look exactly the same. This face-on spiral galaxy, called…

Weird engine of the reef revealed

— 13:59 GMT | Environment

A team of coral researchers has taken a major stride towards revealing the workings of the mysterious 'engine' that drives Australia's Great Barrier Reef, and corals the world over. The science has critical importance in understanding why coral reefs bleach and die, how they respond to climate change - and how that might affect humanity, they say…

Disease resistance may be genetic

— 13:59 GMT | Biology

According to a study in Evolution, resistance to certain infectious diseases may be passed genetically from parent to child. The genetic resistance may be beneficial to families as those with the gene are both unlikely to suffer from disease and unlikely to carry the disease home. Paul Schliekelman, author of the study, says the research was inspired by personal experience after catching stomach flus from his daughter three times over a six-month period…

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