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“The above research was published a few days ago in PLoS Biology. It is the research that I believe will be considered the most important in the field of psychology for 2008. It proves that birds, who don’t belong to source...

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“Ashleigh Griffin of the Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh reviews (Nature 454, 827; 2008) the book Women in Science, Engineering and Technology: Three Decades of UK Initiatives by Alison Phipps (Trentham Books: 2008. 184 pp. $16.99, £25.50). The source...

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“Although the need for communicating 3D data using simple and intuitive means extends to disciplines as diverse as biology, engineering sciences and the visual arts, none of the currently available molecular-visualization programs depicting potentially highly complex structures are compatible with source...

“If Kominis is correct, this is extraordinary news: it means a quantum sensor determines the macroscopic behaviour of magnetic sensitive birds.”

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“ The lithography techniques we rely on to give us the latest in electronics are getting more expensive and technically challenging with each new process shrink. A number of researchers are now looking into whether we can solve some of source...

“The free biology courses offered online through the University of Massachusetts' OpenCourseWare site are designed for students who are majoring in biology and for non-majors who want to take advanced biology courses. The courses are easy to download and include source...

“If it’s so great to be smart, why have most animals remained dumb?”

"They're made out of meat." "Meat?" "Meat. They're made out of meat." "Meat?" "There's no doubt about it. We picked up several from different parts of the planet, took them aboard our recon vessels, and probed them all the way more...

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