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Scientists Identify Driving Forces in Human Cell Division
14/03/2010
ScienceDaily
If you can imagine identical twin sisters at rest, their breath drawing them subtly together and apart, who somehow latch onto ropes that pull them to opposite sides of the bed -- you can imagine what happens to a chromosome in the dividing cell. |
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Why Surprises Temporarily Blind Us
14/03/2010
ScienceDaily
Reading this story requires you to willfully pay attention to the sentences and to tune out nearby conversations, the radio and other distractions. But if a fire alarm sounded, your attention would be involuntarily snatched away from the story to the blaring sound. |
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Fossil Bird Eggshell Provides Source of Ancient DNA
12/03/2010
ScienceDaily
In a world first an international team of researchers, led by Dr Michael Bunce of Murdoch University, have successfully isolated ancient DNA from fossil eggshell remains of extinct birds. |
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