As scientists scramble to understand the ecological fallout, a massive research effort is ramping up.
They're looking to badger, and to make unpleasant for us what we love doing as scientists.
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As scientists try to understand this, the research is also driving forward some more fundamental questions about intelligence.
If we are hard-wired to be communal, as scientists claim, then we are also hard-wired to accept brands.
It continues to evolve around the edges, as scientists sharpen models and draw new links between interconnected natural systems.
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Now, as scientists venture forth into our DNA, they can't really be sure what they're going to bring back.
The nanotech buzz grew louder in the early 1990s as scientists discovered "carbon nanotubes, " soda straws of carbon just one or two nanometers wide.
As scientists understand the disease better, they will begin to treat it as any other chronic disease--such as diabetes or high cholesterol.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory was swarming with media this past week as scientists and journalists prepared for signs of the rover's landing.
Initially, the whole field of sirtuin science was called into question as scientists from other companies had difficulty reproducing the original experiments.
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If scientists want their views to be accorded the respect due to science, then they must speak as scientists, not as lobbyists.
As scientists try to figure out what's broken, failures are piling up.
This discovery could lead to new treatments for these women as scientists "switch off" the action of FGFR1, enabling Tamoxifen to work.
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Clearly, as scientists are so fond of saying, more research is needed.
As scientists understand the disease better, they will begin to treat it as any other chronic disease such as diabetes or high cholesterol.
The quest to engineer body parts has made big strides in recent years as scientists have attempted to grow more and more complex organs.
Patients will be followed for as long as 10 years as scientists try to figure out what individual gene variations mean to heart disease risk.
It also may serve as another warning: As scientists know, when they mess with genes to alter the destiny of cells, they may unleash the unexpected.
The Scientific Method struck a valiant blow against climate denialism in Germany this week, as scientists from around the globe gathered to sort out climate change facts from fiction.
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The H5N1 bird flu can be deadly to people, but as far as scientists know, it does not easily pass from person to person by way of respiratory droplets -- yet.
Mr Bush claims that Mr Hussein had ordered Iraqi scientists who co-operate with the inspectors to be killed, along with their families, and that Iraqi intelligence officers are posing as scientists.
This is a report of a single case, and as scientists, our goal is to confirm or refute research findings, and through this process, we also seek to fill in the missing details.
At the time, the government said the change would allow schools to bring in talented professionals such as scientists, musicians and university professors, plus experienced teachers and heads from overseas and the independent sector.
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Though Mr Shoemaker's career was diverse, it had a central theme: that some of the main events in the solar system's history were not gradual changes, as scientists once supposed, but sudden, violent catastrophes.
And that case has been bolstered yet again, as scientists studying images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, a satellite that takes pictures of the Martian surface from orbit using a variety of different tools.
Between now and April 28, watch live as scientists explore the unknown, potentially encountering shipwrecks, coral, fish, gaseous seeps, and fascinating ocean ecosystems, and prepare to witness active scientific exploration and discovery of America's underwater territory.
In Arkansas, known for the rich Fayettevile Shale reserve, a drilling moratorium on new injection wells has been established as scientists believe that the large number of earthquakes recorded in the region may been a result of fracking.
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But she says the lower yields of organic farms in any country could be greatly increased as scientists learn more about controlling insects and disease without chemicals, and find the right crops to suit a particular region's pests and climate.
This week held some truly unexpected breakthroughs as scientists in China figured out a way to create brain cells from human urine, and researchers at Rice University and CUNY developed batteries that are fueled by the dye from madder roots.
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