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New species of dinosaur from Alberta 7 May 2013 | 11:48 pm
Acrotholus audeti, a new species of pachycephalosaurid dinosaur, was identified from recently discovered and historically collected fossils from Alberta, Canada. The article describing the new species...
New device can extract human DNA very fast 6 May 2013 | 11:56 pm
Engineers have created a device that can extract human DNA in a simpler and more efficient way than conventional methods. They designed microscopic probes that dip into a fluid sample and apply an ele...
New species of small theropod discovered in China 6 May 2013 | 12:17 am
A new species of small fossil theropod have been discovered in northwestern China by a team of international researchers. In a paper published in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, the authors e...
A mid-level solar flare seen by NASA 4 May 2013 | 11:26 pm
A mid-level solar flare, peaking on 3 May, was seen by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. This flare was classified as an M5.7-class flare. M-class flares are the weakest ones. They can cause some spa...
A smarter way to make ultraviolet light beams 3 Dec 2011 | 12:56 am
Existing coherent ultraviolet light sources are power hungry, bulky and expensive. University of Michigan researchers have found a better way to build compact ultraviolet sources with low power consum...
Lava fingerprinting reveals differences between Hawaii's twin volcanoes 3 Dec 2011 | 12:53 am
Hawaii's main volcano chains - the Loa and Kea trends - have distinct sources of magma and unique plumbing systems connecting them to the Earth's deep mantle, according to UBC research published this ...
British butterfly is evolving to respond to climate change 3 Dec 2011 | 12:50 am
As global temperatures rise and climatic zones move polewards, species will need to find different environments to prevent extinction. New research, published today in the journal Molecular Ecology, h...
Biocompatible graphene transistor array reads cellular signals 3 Dec 2011 | 12:47 am
Researchers have demonstrated, for the first time, a graphene-based transistor array that is compatible with living biological cells and capable of recording the electrical signals they generate. This...
Researchers find some smartphone models more vulnerable to attack 3 Dec 2011 | 12:44 am
New research from North Carolina State University shows that some smartphones specifically designed to support the Android mobile platform have incorporated additional features that can be used by hac...
Archaeologists find new evidence of animals being introduced to prehistoric Caribbean 3 Dec 2011 | 12:41 am
An archaeological research team from North Carolina State University, the University of Washington and University of Florida has found one of the most diverse collections of prehistoric non-native ani...
