November 2009

How our skin helps us to listen

Senses from the skin also appear to affect how we perceive speech.

First Collisions in the LHC!

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The Large Hadron Collider has circulated two counter-rotating beams, and the CMS experiment recorded its first collision event.

Beam circulation and beyond: pre-Christmas LHC activities

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The Large Hadron Collider achieves its first circulation of proton beams this year.

hey, where are those galaxy clusters going?

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Further analysis with the WMAP data suggests that the cosmological dark flow is real.

Oceans can’t keep up with human emissions

Oceans are no longer absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere like they used to.

Blame the Mammoths

An analysis of dung fungus suggests that the disappearance of mammoths, mastodons, and other large animals likely caused dramatic changes in North American plant communities and fire frequency, not the other way around.

Update from Hobbiton

A statistical analysis of all of the LB1 fossils suggest that the "hobbit" fossils found in Indonesia were part of a hominin species that branched off from the human line some time in the past.

Conserving whales by collecting blow samples in the wild

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Pathogens in whales can be studied by gathering samples from their blows.

Astronomers spot ticking supernova time bomb

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Astronomers have spotted a potential Type Ia supernova in our own galaxy.

Tamiflu-resistant pandemic influenza H1N1 virus selected by prophylaxis

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Using sub-optimal levels of the antiviral drug seems to have given rise to a Tamiflu-resistant strain of H1N1 influenza in a Canadian family.