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Science 2013-11-23

'Wise chisels': Art, craftsmanship, and power tools

'Wise chisels': Art, craftsmanship, and power tools CAMBRIDGE, MA -- It's often easy to tell at a glance the difference between a mass-produced object and one that has been handcrafted: The handmade item is likely to have distinctive imperfections and ...
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Science 2013-11-23

Stuck on flu

Stuck on flu How a sugar-rich mucus barrier traps the virus -- and it gets free to infect Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have shown for the first time how influenza A viruses snip through a protective mucus net ...
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Medicine 2013-11-22

Found: 1 of civilization's oldest wine cellars?

Found: 1 of civilization's oldest wine cellars? Cellar held equivalent of nearly 3,000 bottles of reds and whites; findings to be released Friday WASHINGTON—A team of American and Israeli researchers has unearthed what could be the largest and oldest wine cellar ...
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Science 2013-11-22

Colossal new predatory dino terrorized early tyrannosaurs

Colossal new predatory dino terrorized early tyrannosaurs A new species of carnivorous dinosaur – one of the three largest ever discovered in North America – lived alongside and competed with small-bodied tyrannosaurs 98 million years ago. This newly discovered ...
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Science 2013-11-22

Smaller islands host shorter food chains

Smaller islands host shorter food chains That smaller islands will typically sustain fewer species than large ones is a widespread pattern in nature. Now a team of researchers shows that smaller area will mean not only fewer species, but also shorter food chains. This ...
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Earth Science 2013-11-22

New dinosaur discovered in Utah

New dinosaur discovered in Utah Top predator is first of its kind to be found in North America Researchers at The Field Museum, the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences (NCMNS), and North Carolina State University (NCSU) have discovered a new, giant predatory dinosaur ...
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Science 2013-11-22

Research funding has become prone to bubble formation

Research funding has become prone to bubble formation "In finance, the first condition for a bubble occurs when too much liquidity is concentrated on too few assets. The second is the presence of speculators. In science, similarly, if too much research ...
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Medicine 2013-11-22

Research team discovers 'immune gene' in Neanderthals

Research team discovers 'immune gene' in Neanderthals Early humans had a selection advantage, as scientists working under the direction of the University of Bonn have learned A research group at Bonn University and international collaborators discovered ...
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