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Astronomers Eager to Add to Sky in Google Earth

September 8, 2007 – 11:56 pm

From Physorg.com.
Since Sky in Google Earth debuted two weeks ago to let the public explore the heavens from their computers, two University of California, Berkeley, astronomers have jumped in to populate Google’s sky with the most recently discovered heavenly objects.
This week, Google posted on its Web site another layer of information users can add to [...]

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Research Shows Bone Cells Controls the Regulation of Blood Sugar

August 10, 2007 – 8:00 pm

From Physorg.com.
Bones are typically thought of as calcified, inert structures, but researchers at Columbia University Medical Center have now identified a surprising and critically important novel function of the skeleton. They’ve shown for the first time that the skeleton is an endocrine organ that helps control our sugar metabolism and weight and, as such, is [...]

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How will an Open-Access System Improve Scientific Research?

July 26, 2007 – 1:28 pm

From Popular Science.
As science has become increasingly complex and interconnected, even the smallest a-ha instance demands that researchers spend the bulk of their time on grunt work—combing through relevant journal articles that are poorly annotated, begging colleagues for necessary materials (a biologist may need specific cell lines, for instance), and tracking down data sets. As [...]

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