Science news articles about 'plethora'

  • Luggage Lost and Luggage Found

    ... or for the not so good—the RFID chips in our newest passports, which are terribly insecure and emit a plethora of personal data. Most commonly, though, RFID is being used to track our stuff, like the ...
  • Clue to mystery crustacean in parasite form

    ... for over a century. No one has ever found an adult of these puzzling crustaceans, despite the plethora of these larvae in plankton, leading generations of marine zoologists to wonder just what y- ...
  • "Perfect Storm" in Food Prices Caused by Many Factors

    A plethora of factors have conspired to create the worst food crisis in a generation—and make it unlikely prices will shrink any time soon. Part of Global Food Crisis: A Special News Series.
  • SOHO discovers its 1,500th comet

    ... falls to pieces, leaving a long trail of fragments. Thanks to SOHO, astronomers now have a plethora of images showing this process. "It's a unique data set and could not have been achieved in any ...
  • Biology enters 'The Matrix' through new computer language

    ... genome was sequenced less than 10 years ago, researchers have been able to access a dizzying plethora of genomic information with a simple click of a mouse. This digitizing of genomic data—and its ...
  • Biology enters 'The Matrix' through new computer language

    ... genome was sequenced less than 10 years ago, researchers have been able to access a dizzying plethora of genomic information with a simple click of a mouse. This digitizing of genomic data—and its ...
  • Playing Games With Science: Magic Pen

    [Via Diggy Games] Welcome to Magic Pen. This fascinating little game displays a delightful plethora of physics principles in action. The object of Magic Pen -- as in some similar games, like Crayon ...
  • Giant honeybees use Mexican waves to repel predatory wasps

    ... , and to efficiently safeguard the colony's resources (keeping losses and expenses to a minimum), a plethora of defensive tactics has evolved in giant honeybees, both "aggressive" and "docile" ...
  • Jefferson scientists deliver toxic genes to effectively kill pancreatic cancer cells

    ... for which only a minority of patients qualify. We are in great need of translating the plethora of molecular information we know about this disease to novel therapeutic ideas." Pancreatic cancer is ...
  • Rainforest fungus makes diesel

    ... gas composition of G. roseum, we were totally surprised to learn that it was making a plethora of hydrocarbons and hydrocarbon derivatives. The results were totally unexpected and very exciting and ...
  • Modern day scourge helped ancient Earth escape a deathly deep freeze

    ... research has found evidence demonstrating hot and cold cycles in the Cryogenian period, says a plethora of papers has been published and much debate has been devoted to the Snowball Earth theory ...
  • Global warming linked to European viral epidemic

    ... of 'mast', plant seeds from oak and beech trees, that forms the voles' staple diet. This plethora of food results in increases in the vole population and warm summers raise the chances that people ...
  • Scientists Find a Missing Link

    Paleontologists have excavated a plethora of feathered dinosaurs in China over the past few years have, but none of those dinosaurs had feathers like this. Scientists examining a news specimen of the ...
  • What if Oregonians decline to address climate change?

    ... the state overall and to individual households likely include some overlapping expenditures, a plethora of financial in-state and out-of-state consequences not yet considered because of lack of data ...
  • Is it really only our kidneys that control blood pressure?

    ... part of the nervous system, which directly controls the kidney. They also update us on a plethora of new findings supporting a role of the nervous system in controlling blood pressure long term. But ...

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