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- Coral itself may play important role in regulating local climate: Coral chemicals protect against warming oceans
- Uncovering the tricks of nature's ice-seeding bacteria
- Older siblings' cells can be passed from female dogs to their puppies in the womb
- The reins of Casimir: Engineered nanostructures could offer way to control quantum effect
- Gilding the gum tree: Scientists strike gold in leaves
- Natural compound can be used for 3-D printing of medical implants
| Posted: 23 Oct 2013 01:52 PM PDT Australian marine scientists have found the first evidence that coral itself may play an important role in regulating local climate. They have discovered that the coral animal -- not just its algal symbiont -- makes an important sulfur-based molecule with properties to assist it in many ways, ranging from cellular protection in times of heat stress to local climate cooling by encouraging clouds to form.  |
| Uncovering the tricks of nature's ice-seeding bacteria Posted: 23 Oct 2013 11:11 AM PDT New discoveries could impact applications ranging from artificial snowmaking to global climate models.  |
| Older siblings' cells can be passed from female dogs to their puppies in the womb Posted: 23 Oct 2013 09:56 AM PDT Researchers have found that microchimerism, a condition where some people possess a small number of cells in their bodies that are not genetically their own, can be passed from a female dog to her offspring while they are still in the womb. Microchimerism most often occurs when a mother gives birth to a child. In some cases, cells from that child are left in the mothers' body and continue to live, despite being of a different genetic makeup than surrounding cells. Researchers have identified evidence that those cells can then be passed on to other children the mother may give birth to at a later time.  |
| The reins of Casimir: Engineered nanostructures could offer way to control quantum effect Posted: 23 Oct 2013 09:56 AM PDT You might think that a pair of parallel plates hanging motionless in a vacuum just a fraction of a micrometer away from each other would be like strangers passing in the night -- so close but destined never to meet. Thanks to quantum mechanics, you would be wrong.  |
| Gilding the gum tree: Scientists strike gold in leaves Posted: 23 Oct 2013 07:13 AM PDT Eucalyptus trees -- or gum trees as they are known -- are drawing up gold particles from the earth via their root system and depositing it their leaves and branches.  |
| Natural compound can be used for 3-D printing of medical implants Posted: 23 Oct 2013 07:13 AM PDT Biomedical engineering researchers have discovered that a naturally-occurring compound can be incorporated into three-dimensional printing processes to create medical implants out of non-toxic polymers. The compound is riboflavin, which is better known as vitamin B2.  |
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