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Solving Sudokus - Coloring by Numbers

Have you ever been trying to solve a Sudoku puzzle and been gripped by a sinking feeling that maybe you were stuck with a lemon? That maybe the puzzle you are struggling with actually has no solution at all? And, if you do find a solution, how can you be sure it's the only one? What if half an hour ago you had written 5 instead of 3---would you then have gone down a path to a completely different solution?
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UQ researchers discover some of the oldest forms of life

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Science news // 06 August, 2007 09:08:52
 University of Queensland researchers have identified microbial remains in some of the oldest preserved organic matter on Earth, confirmed to be 3.5 billion years-old.

UQ researchers discover some of the oldest forms of life

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Science news // 06 August, 2007 09:08:52
 University of Queensland researchers have identified microbial remains in some of the oldest preserved organic matter on Earth, confirmed to be 3.5 billion years-old.

Unique, Photosynthesizing Life-Form Discovered

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Science news // 26 July, 2007 07:07:28
 In the hot springs of Yellowstone National Park, a team of researchers partially funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) discovered a new bacterium that transforms light into chemical energy.

One species, many genomes

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Science news // 24 July, 2007 06:07:43
 Faster growth, darker leaves, a different way of branching - wild varieties of the plant Arabidopsis thaliana are often substantially different from the laboratory strain of this small mustard plant, a favorite of many plant biologists.

Researchers witness natural selection at work

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Science news // 17 July, 2007 07:07:45
 An international team of researchers has documented a remarkable example of natural selection in a tropical butterfly species that fought back - genetically speaking - against a highly invasive, male-killing bacteria.

Life Elsewhere in Solar System Could Be Different From Life as We Know It

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Science news // 08 July, 2007 06:07:30
 The search for life elsewhere in the solar system and beyond should include efforts to detect what scientists sometimes refer to as "weird" life -- that is, life with an alternative biochemistry to that of life on Earth -- says a new report from the National Research Council.

Satellite images reveal link between urban growth and changing rainfall patterns

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Science news // 03 July, 2007 09:07:50
 For the first time, scientists have used satellite images to demonstrate a link between rapid city growth and rainfall patterns, as well as to assess compliance with an international treaty to protect wetlands. The results have been published in two studies co-authored by Karen Seto, assistant professor of geological and environmental sciences and a fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University.

What Happened Before The Big Bang?

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Science news // 02 July, 2007 06:07:02
 New discoveries about another universe whose collapse appears to have given birth to the one we live in today will be announced in the early on-line edition of the journal Nature Physics on 1 July 2007 and will be published in the August 2007 issue of the journal's print edition.

NASA Satellite Captures First View of 'Night-Shining' Clouds

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Science news // 28 June, 2007 06:06:19
 A NASA satellite has captured the first occurrence this summer of mysterious iridescent polar clouds that form 50 miles above Earth's surface.

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