April 9, 2008
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On 2 of December, 1995 a spacecraft called SOHO (Solar & Heliospheric Observatory) was launched into space with the mission of studying the internal structure of the Sun, it’s extensive outer atmosphere and the origin of the solar wind which is a stream of ionized gas that blows continuously outward through the Solar [...]
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April 5, 2008
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Has you might imagine there are several sizes of black holes and this one besides being the smallest ever found still digests everything around him because of the huge gravitational force that even draws light into it.
The previous record holder would weight 6.3 Suns which isn’t much when we know black holes weighting [...]
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April 2, 2008
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A study has been published at Oxford Journals with the objective of determining the changes on the neural activities that are associated with risk taking decisions when aging.
Different areas of the brain when taking risk decisions are activated between young adults and older adults and also older adults display a significantly higher rate [...]
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April 1, 2008
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A new research suggests that rare gene mutations can increase the risk of schizophrenia.
Studies show that schizophrenics share some of the same kind of rare gene variations.
These kinds of genes modifications normally tend to gather around important genes that influence the brain development like the ones that control neuronal growth and migration.
The study [...]
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March 27, 2008
Brazilian palenontologists discovered a fossil in the coastal Mina Poty area at northeastern Brazil of a new marine crocodile specie that is 62 million years old which means that this reptile that belonged to the Dynosauridae group survived the extinction of dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
This specie was named Guarinisuchus munizi which means “Sea Warrior”. [...]
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March 27, 2008
It’s now a fact that humans have been around Europe since 1.2 millions years ago.
The human remains found at a cave near the city of Burgos are the oldest findings in Europe and come to prove that humans have been around in Europe for quite a long time.
Archeologists had already found evidence of human activity [...]
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March 24, 2008
Mikki Osterloo of the University of Hawai and co-workers found small depressions that appear to be filled with salt deposits. These deposits seem to be like the ones we have on Earth when the water evaporates which increases the probability that there was liquid water in Mars. Two hundred salt deposits smaller than 10 [...]
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March 23, 2008
When salt water mixes with fresh water at the river mouths it increases the water temperature by 0.1 degree Celsius (0.2 Fahrenheit). To harvest this energy scientists have developed a special membrane which is extremely expensive. The process only problem is the cost of the production of this membrane which is quite expensive but that [...]
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March 21, 2008
The explanation to the dinosaurs and other species extinctions still troubles today’s researchers.
There are two theories that explain the dinosaurs extinction. One is the theory that evolves a meteorite impact that happens 65 million years ago making the atmosphere not so suitable for life. Other is the one that comes from gigantic volcano eruptions that [...]
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March 12, 2008
The brain.oxfordjournals.org has published that music listening enhances recovery after a stroke.
This research is based in fifty four patients that completed the study out of sixty. The patients were separated into three groups, the control group, the music group and the language group.The language group is the group that instead of music listens to audio [...]
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