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Scientists Offer New View of Photosynthesis

During the remarkable cascade of events in photosynthesis, plants approach the pinnacle of stinginess by scavenging nearly every photon of available light energy to produce food.Yet after many years of careful research into the exact mechanisms, some key questions remain about this fundamental biological process that supports almost all life on Earth.
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Corals: More complex than you?

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Science news // 30 April, 2007 08:05:29
 The humble coral may possess as many genes - and possibly even more - than humans do.

Superfluids could create a new class of ultra-sensitive rotation sensors

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Science news // 24 April, 2007 07:04:51
 By utilizing ideas developed in disparate fields, from earthquake dynamics to random-field magnets, researchers at the University of Illinois have constructed a model that describes the avalanche-like, phase-slip cascades in the superflow of helium.

Bucky's brother: the boron buckyball makes its debut

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Science news // 23 April, 2007 07:04:35
 A new study by Rice University scientists predicts the existence and stability of another "buckyball" consisting entirely of boron atoms.

Quantum Secrets of Photosynthesis Revealed

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Science news // 18 April, 2007 06:04:07
 Through photosynthesis, green plants and cyanobacteria are able to transfer sunlight energy to molecular reaction centers for conversion into chemical energy with nearly 100-percent efficiency. Speed is the key - the transfer of the solar energy takes place almost instantaneously so little energy is wasted as heat. How photosynthesis achieves this near instantaneous energy transfer is a long-standing mystery that may have finally been solved.

Purple Palm Trees on Alien Worlds?

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Science news // 17 April, 2007 07:04:23
 A team of NASA scientists led by a member of the Spitzer Science Center believe they have found a way to predict the color of plants on planets in other solar systems.

Where has all the antimatter gone?

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Science news // 11 April, 2007 07:04:08
 Scientists from the Universities of Liverpool and Glasgow have completed work on the inner heart of an experiment which seeks to find out what has happened to all the antimatter created at the start of the Universe. Matter and antimatter were created in equal amounts in the Big Bang but somehow the antimatter disappeared resulting in the Universe, and everything in it, including ourselves, being made of the remaining matter.

Examination of radiation left from birth of universe could alter theories

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Science news // 03 April, 2007 07:04:48
 Using relic radiation from the birth of the universe, astrophysicists at the University of Illinois have proposed a new way of measuring the fine-structure constant in the past, and comparing it with today.

A Mathematical Solution for Another Dimension

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Science news // 20 March, 2007 06:03:56
 Ever since 1887, when Norwegian mathematician Sophus Lie discovered the mathematical group called E8, researchers have been trying to understand the extraordinarily complex object described by a numerical matrix of more than 400,000 rows and columns.

Ice created in nanoseconds

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Science news // 19 March, 2007 07:03:05
 Sandia's huge Z machine, which generates temperatures hotter than the sun, has turned water to ice in nanoseconds.

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