No Sex Please, We’re Rotifers: Study Documents Use of Hormone Progesterone in Microscopic Aquatic Animals

MIT leads the first team to study a Kuiper Belt object during a stellar occultation Occultation provided enough data to determine the KBO’s size and a

This artist's concept of a Kuiper Belt object found by the Hubble telescope is only 3,200 feet across and a whopping 4.2 billion miles away.
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Flower power makes tropics cooler, wetter

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Researchers Develop Ultra-Simple Method for Creating Nanoscale Gold Coatings

Researchers at Rensselaer have developed a new, ultra-simple method for making layers of gold that measure only billionths of a meter thick. As seen in the research image, drops of gold-infused toluene applied to a surface evaporate within a few minutes and leave behind a uniform layer of nanoscale gold. The process requires no sophisticated equipment, works on nearly any surface, takes only 10 minutes, and could have important implications for nanoelectronics and semiconductor manufacturing.

Mars : Encore plus humide qu'on le pensait

Jason Karp Wins Research Expo 2010 Rudee Outstanding Poster

Congratulations to Jason Karp, the electrical engineering PhD student who won the top prize -- the Rudee Outstanding Poster Award -- at Research Expo 2010 for his new solar concentrator design. Read the abstract at Poster #98 at http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/re/ Related Link »

Short Communication Local atmospheric decoupling in complex topography alters climate change impacts

Bizarre matter could find use in quantum computers Rice physicists: Odd electron mix has fault-tolerant quantum registry

From left, Rice physicist Rui-Rui Du, graduate students Chi Zhang and Yanhua Dai, and (not pictured) former postdoctoral researcher Tauno Knuuttila have found that odd groupings of ultracold electrons could be useful in making fault-tolerant quantum computers.

Through the Looking Glass: Scientists Peer into Antarctica's Past to See Future Climate

Link Discovered Between Carbon, Nitrogen May Provide New Ways to Mitigate Pollution Problems

Aphids Evolved Special, Surprising Talents

La vraie couleur des dinosaures

Comme leurs descendants les oiseaux, les théropodes étaient pourvus de plumes colorées, selon une découverte de paléontologues britanniques et chinoi
Dans un gisement vieux de 100 millions d’années situé dans le nord-est de la Chine, une équipe de paléontologues ont exhumé les plumes fossilisées de théropodes.

Negating "Climategate": Copenhagen Talks and Climate Science Survive Stolen E-Mail Controversy Release of stolen messages

CLIMATE CLAMOR: Demonstrators in Copen­hagen at December rally in a call for action.

New large-clawed Jurassic dinosaur sheds light on elusive lineage

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