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Saturday, December 22, 2012

ScienceDaily: Top Science News

ScienceDaily: Top Science News


Bats may hold clues to long life and disease resistance

Posted: 21 Dec 2012 08:41 AM PST

The genes of long-living and virus resistant bats may provide clues to the future treatment and prevention of infectious diseases and cancer in people, researchers have found.

Hawaiian Islands are dissolving from within, study says

Posted: 21 Dec 2012 08:40 AM PST

Most of us think of soil erosion as the primary force that levels mountains but geologists have found that Oahu's mountains are dissolving from within due to groundwater.

Origin of life: Hypothesis traces first protocells back to emergence of cell membrane bioenergetics

Posted: 20 Dec 2012 11:35 AM PST

A coherent pathway -- which starts from no more than rocks, water and carbon dioxide and leads to the emergence of the strange bio-energetic properties of living cells -- has been traced for the first time in a major hypothesis article.

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