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Can you rescue a rainforest?

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Half a century after most of Costa Rica's rainforests were cut down, researchers from the Boyce Thompson Institute took on a project that many thought was impossible - restoring a tropical rainforest ecosystem.
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Researchers unravel the secrets of spider silk's strength

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News // 25 March, 2008 12:10:00
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The strength of a biological material like spider silk lies in the specific geometric configuration of structural proteins, which have small clusters of weak hydrogen bonds that work cooperatively to resist force and dissipate energy, researchers in Civil and Environmental Engineering have revealed.

Is graphene the new silicon?

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Technology news // 23 March, 2008 07:54:00
 Graphene, a single-atom-thick sheet of graphite, is a new material which combines aspects of semiconductors and metals.

Spring is Aurora Season

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Astronomy news // 18 March, 2008 08:11:00
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Spring is aurora season. For reasons not fully understood by scientists, the weeks around the vernal equinox are prone to Northern Lights. Canadians walking their dogs after dinner, Scandinavians popping out to the sauna, Alaskan Huskies on the Iditarod trail—all they have to do is look up and behold, green curtains of light dancing across the night sky.

Ocean May Exist Beneath Titan's Crust

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Science news // 19 March, 2008 07:33:00
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft has discovered evidence that points to the existence of an underground ocean of water and ammonia on Saturn's moon Titan. The findings, made using radar measurements of Titan's rotation, will appear in the March 21 issue of the journal Science.