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“The Nose Knows” — The Discovery Files
Bloodhounds, take notice! Thanks to researchers at Purdue University, law enforcement officers and forensic pathologists may soon have a new working tool to sniff out trouble–a device they can take to the scene for instant identification. Today’s mass…
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“True Blue Lizards” — The Discovery Files
In nature, putting the other guy first seems contradictory to an animal’s goals of survival and passing on its genes, so researchers have been trying to understand why the blue side-blotched lizard will step forward to battle an intruding aggressor, ev…
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“Virtual Virus” — The Discovery Files
Researchers at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois have put their high-powered supercomputers to work to complete the first simulation of a life form all the way down to its individual atoms, leading the wa…
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“Fossil Find” — The Discovery Files
Far above the Arctic Circle, paleontologists have discovered a new fossil species that bridges the evolutionary gap between land and sea animals–an animal that is both fish and tetrapod. The skeleton indicates that the animal could support its body …