Category Archives: Science

Life lessons from Hawking

Posted on January 6, 2012 by CNP Webmaster

As Stephen Hawking turns 70, six life lessons you should learn from him By Elizabeth Flock, Washington Post, January 6, 2012 Physicist, cosmologist and obsessor of black holes Stephen Hawking turns 70 Sunday, despite a diagnosis of Lou Gehrig’s disease … Continue reading →

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Meeting for Integrative Biology

Posted on December 29, 2011 by CNP Webmaster

This story is taken from Sacbee / PR Newswire Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology to Convene Annual Meeting Published Thursday, Dec. 29, 2011 CHARLESTON, S.C., Dec. 29, 2011 — Scientists will present research on marine biodiversity, climate change, animal … Continue reading →

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More confusion on animal evolution

Posted on December 25, 2011 by CNP Webmaster

  600-Million-Year-Old Microscopic Fossils Upend Evolution Theory VOA News, December 23, 2011 Photo: AP This composite of microscope images shows fossil animal embryos – discovered in China – that have opened a window on an early and poorly understood stage … Continue reading →

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Autistic children have excess brain cells

Posted on November 9, 2011 by CNP Webmaster

Study: Autistic Children Have More Brain Cells By Alice Park Wednesday, November 9, 2011 There’s growing evidence that the brains of autistic children are very different from the brains of other youngsters. Now a new study that found an excess … Continue reading →

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New anti-cancer vaccine

Posted on November 7, 2011 by CNP Webmaster

A vaccine that can kill cancer By Karin Kloosterman November 06, 2011 Israeli company formulates a drug that ‘trains’ the immune system to seek and destroy malignant cells that have already invaded the body. Cancer cells. As we get older, … Continue reading →

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Platypus helps understand evolution

Posted on October 21, 2011 by CNP Webmaster

Platypus sheds light on evolutionary theory Anna Scrivenger | Thursday, October 20th, 2011 at 10:06 am Missing link between birds and mammals: the platypus of eastern Australia Arguably Australia’s weirdest animal, the platypus, is at the centre of a new … Continue reading →

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Nobel laureate grateful for Israeli upbringing

Posted on October 12, 2011 by CNP Webmaster

The scorned scientist who became a Nobel laureate By Abigail Klein Leichman, Israel 21C  October 10, 2011 Danny Shechtman’s rigorous Israeli upbringing gave him the tenacity to keep him on a prize-winning scientific course despite ridicule from colleagues. Photo by … Continue reading →

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Israeli chemist wins Nobel in chemistry

Posted on October 5, 2011 by CNP Webmaster

Israel’s Daniel Shechtman wins 2011 Nobel Prize in chemistry Professor at Haifa’s Technion wins Israel’s tenth Nobel for his discovery of patterns in atoms. By Asaf Shtull-Trauring, Haaretz and Reuters Tags: Israel Nobel Technion Daniel Shechtman, October 5, 2011   … Continue reading →

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