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Did Earth's Twin Cores Spark Plate Tectonics?

dsc.discovery.com — The driving mechanism for plate tectonics has long been a mystery to geologists. Now a new theory purports to have the answer: Our planet has two inner cores.More… (General Sciences)

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Broken 'Big Bang' collider to be restarted in June

dailymail.co.uk — Broken 'Big Bang' collider to be restarted in JuneMore… (General Sciences)

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Scientists See Brain Aging Before Symptoms Appear

newsroom.ucla.edu — UCLA scientists have used innovative brain-scan technology developed at UCLA, along with patient-specific information on Alzheimer's disease risk, to help diagnose brain aging, often before symptoms appear. Published in the January issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, their study may offer a more accurate method for tracking brain aging.More… (General Sciences)

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Scientists Discover Why People Better With Faces Than Names

telegraph.co.uk — The reason why some people are better with faces than names has been identified by scientists and it appears to be due to their higher levels of a special "socialising" hormone called Oxytocin.More… (General Sciences)

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A device that mimics one of nature's key transport machines.

physorg.com — To help protect its genes, a cell is highly selective about what it allows to move in and out of its nucleus. Yet that choosiness is regulated by just a thin barrier, perforated with tiny transport machines called nuclear pore complexes: protein-coated holes surrounded by flimsy, unfolded protein strands.More… (General Sciences)

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Dino 'graveyard' reveals first Asian triceratops

newscientist.com — The first big discovery has already emerged from China's huge new fossil site. In China's Shandong province, the 2-metre-long skull of a close relative of the famed horned dinosaur triceratops has been unearthed. It marks the first evidence that the group, called ceratopsids, ever lived outside western North America.More… (General Sciences)

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How Flying Reptiles Rose

cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com — How did a giant flying reptile get off the ground? It's not a simple question: A computerized analysis of pterosaur fossils and modern-day bird bones shows that the biggest pterosaurs couldn't simply lift off into the air like a bird, because their hind legs were too weak.More… (General Sciences)

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