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SCIENCE / NEWS Wed Apr 25, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

SF Gate -- A rocky planet not much larger than Earth has been detected orbiting a star close to our own neighborhood in the Milky Way, and the European astronomers who found it say it lies within the star's "habitable zone," where life could exist -- possibly in oce.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Fri Apr 13, 2007 @ 2:24pm neoform

Independent -- Women might soon be able to produce sperm in a development that could allow lesbian couples to have their own biological daughters, according to a pioneering study published today. Scientists are seeking ethical permission to produce synthetic sperm ce.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Mon Apr 7, 2008 @ 8:22am neoform

BBC News -- Astronomers have discovered a planetary system orbiting a distant star which looks much like our own. They found two planets that were close matches for Jupiter and Saturn orbiting a star about half the size of our Sun. Martin Dominik, from St Andre.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Mon Jan 7, 2008 @ 8:23am neoform

BBC News -- The chemical con trick used by Alcon blue butterfly larvae to get ants to take care of them has been detailed by scientists working in Denmark. The Alcon blue grubs are well known for deceiving the ants into feeding them while letting their own brood s.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Thu Nov 15, 2007 @ 8:23am neoform

BBC News -- One of Western Europe's earliest known urban societies may have sown the seeds of its own downfall, a study suggests. Mystery surrounded the fall of the Bronze Age Argaric people in south-east Spain - Europe's driest area. Data suggests the early ci.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Wed Nov 7, 2007 @ 8:21am neoform

BBC News -- China intends to launch its own space station in 2020, according to one of the country's leading space experts. Rocket designer Long Lehao told state media scientists were on track to send "a small-scale 20-ton space workshop" into the Earth's orbit... Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Wed Sep 26, 2007 @ 8:29am neoform

Physorg -- Recent research from Vidi researcher Josef Stuefer at the Radboud University Nijmegen reveals that plants have their own chat systems that they can use to warn each other. Therefore plants are not boring and passive organisms that just stand there waiting.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Wed May 23, 2007 @ 10:43am neoform

BBC News -- An artist has offered to donate his own head to an Oxford museum - if a collection of shrunken heads has to be returned to South America. Ted Dewan has written to Oxford University's Pitt Rivers Museum to offer his own head for shrinking. Museums ha.. Read More