Give them a little booze, and fruit flies get rowdy. After too much alcohol, they’ll stagger and, eventually, pass out. But for a select few flies, alcohol’s effects are much weaker. Now, scientists have identified the genetic mutation responsible for this difference.
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In one of the early discoveries of the current “silicon electrophotonics era,” scientists from Hitachi, Ltd. in Tokyo have built a light-emitting transistor (LET) that transfers, detects and controls an electrical signal all on a single nanometer-sized chip. Using a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate, the group could optically connect the LET ..
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“For years ‘lost’ tapes recording data from the Apollo 11 Moon landing have been stored underneath the seats of Australian physics students. Last week, up to 100 tapes, clearly marked “NASA Manned Space Center”, turned up after a search in a dusty basement of a physics lecture hall at Curtin University of Technology in Perth.”
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Visitors to the Vatican will soon be able to descend into an ancient world of the dead, a newly unveiled necropolis that was a burial place for the rich and not-so-affluent during Roman imperial rule.
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You are brushing your teeth, then house gets struck by lightning and the charge enters your mouth and exits your butt. All because of the rubber shoes.
Who else is going to start brushing thier teeth in rubber shoes?
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Swiss researchers have discovered the 100,000-year-old remains of a previously unknown giant camel species in central Syria.
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The expansion of the universe over most of its history has been relatively gradual. The notion that a rapid period “inflation” preceded the Big Bang expansion was first put forth 25 years ago. The new WMAP observations favor specific inflation scenarios over other long held ideas
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This history-rich Hudson River community has yielded a museum’s worth of 18th-century military artifacts over the decades, from musket balls to human skeletons. But a colonial soldier’s daily lot wasn’t all fighting and bloodshed. They had their share of down time, and that’s where the sutler came in, offering for sale two of the few diversions.
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Magnitude 4.2, depth 0 miles.
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