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It’s easy to to be impressed when you walk the halls of museums by the quality and quantity of specimens on display, but it is only a fraction of what institutions like the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University and other comparable institutions have in their collections. This year, the Academy celebrates its 200th anniversary and to mark the occasion, has created a year-long exhibit titled The Academy at 200: The Nature of Discovery

A galaxy cluster with the distribution of dark matter marked by purple overlay. Credit: NASA, ESA, E. Julio (JPL/LAM), P.

Image courtesy of iStockphoto/adventtr More than 382,000 people with kidney disease in the U.S. are on dialysis, a painful procedure that can wreak havoc on blood vessels due to constant jabs from large needles. During dialysis, a patient’s blood is filtered out of their body and through a machine that performs the work normally done by the kidneys.

A series of graduate student conversations with leading women biologists, at the Women in Science Symposium at Cornell April 2-3.

The surface waters of the Arctic Ocean may be releasing "significant" amounts of methane into the atmosphere, researchers reported yesterday in the journal Nature Geoscience . [More]

Genomes are complicated. Even the concept of a “gene” isn’t as straightforward as you might expect.

In the past few months, you might recall warnings of incoming pieces of the sun. Called coronal mass ejections (CMEs), these energetic solar-storm particles can trigger amazing displays of auroras .

When predicting something that science will never do, it’s wise to recall the French philosopher Auguste Comte. In 1835 he asserted that science will never figure out what stars are made of

A slightly used car. Image: Flickr/JoiseyShowaa cc license Ted Williams entered the final two games of the 1941 season batting .39955. If he d sat them out, the average would ve been rounded up to .400, making him the only MLB player in the modern era to bat the milestone

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For day 2 of Experimental Biology, I found an interesting poster on a new chemical, found in slime mold, that might have therapeutic potential for breast cancer treatment! Enjoy! We are always looking for new cancer treatments. Each type of cancer is different, from breast cancer to lung cancer or pancreatic, and there are also different subtypes of cancers within each type of cancer. Your breast cancer can be estrogen receptor positive or negative, and this can drastically effect what kind of treatments may work best.

This is an installment in the On My Shelf series reviews about books demonstrating anthropology in practice. Book details follow the post

It’s tough to pick a familiar face out of a crowd--but focusing on a known voice in a noisy room is easy. And a new study scanned volunteers’ brains to look at how we solve the so-called cocktail party problem.

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Interviewer: So, how powerful are you? Could you …say… destroy the Earth? Tick: Destroy the Earth?