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Water cranks up the heat in chillies

2011-12-20T16:30:29Z

Scientists on Wednesday said they had solved a puzzle over why some wild chilli plants yield red-hot fruit but others have fruit which is mild.

The answer lies in exposure to water, they reported in the British journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

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Tiny water flea has more genes than you

2011-02-03T16:31:13Z

A tiny, translucent water flea that can reproduce without sex and lives in ponds and lakes has more genes than any other creature, said scientists who have sequenced the crustacean's genome.

Daphnia pulex, named after the nymph in Greek mythology who transforms into a tree in order to escape the lovestruck Apollo, has 31,000 genes compared to humans who have about 23,000, said the research in the journal Science.

Often studied by scientists who want to learn about the effects...

Slipher, Vesto Melvin

2010-11-29T14:43:08Z

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Hermann Joseph Muller

2010-11-29T14:43:05Z

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Prodynorphin

2010-11-30T13:48:43Z

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Fossils Common to Indiana

2010-11-02T14:44:21Z

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Feathered Dragons - Transition from Dinosaurs to Birds

2010-11-02T23:52:50Z

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Top Environmental Policy Management Programs

2010-11-02T14:23:03Z

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Are We Living Inside a Black Hole?

2010-11-02T13:31:39Z

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Did a Theoretical Physicist Already Predicts the End of LOST?

2010-10-27T07:26:15Z

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State Colleges in Indiana

2010-10-25T11:39:30Z

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Studying the Sex Secrets of a Snail Parasite

2010-10-26T21:30:14Z

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Accelerated Rate of Gene Gain and Loss in Primates

2010-10-22T10:02:13Z

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KISSing Galactic Cousins Break the Mold

2010-10-26T20:48:25Z

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Bus-sized boa slithers into record books

2010-04-16T17:17:11Z

Stunned scientists have found the fossilised remains of the world's greatest snake -- a record-busting serpent that was as long as a bus and snacked on crocodiles.

The boa-like behemoth ruled the tropical rainforests of what is now Colombia some 60 million years ago, at a time when the world was far hotter than now, they report in a study released on Wednesday.

The size of the snake's vertebrae suggest the beast weighed some 1.1...

Brain Center May Link Addiction, Mental Illness

2010-10-23T19:03:13Z

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Did dinosaur-killing asteroid ignite an oily tinderbox?

2010-10-19T15:10:38Z

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Ancient Asteroid Impact Coated Earth in Blanket of Beads

2010-10-25T20:50:52Z

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Latest: Did dinosaur-killing asteroid ignite an oily tinderbox?

2010-10-19T15:10:33Z

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Did dinosaur-killing asteroid ignite oily tinderbox?

2010-10-19T14:18:50Z

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Modeling urban road networks

2010-10-19T14:17:47Z

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Dinosaurs suffered climate change too

2010-10-16T08:02:01Z

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Indiana New Coach Football

2010-12-07T17:01:30Z

Kevin Wilson, left, is introduced by Indiana University Athletic Director Fred Glass as the new Indiana football coach during a news conference in Bloomington, Ind., Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

Dalai Lama

2010-05-23T17:00:30Z

The Dalai Lama speaks to the media while wearing an Indiana University visor during a news conference in New York, Thursday, May 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

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Laptops Spying on Students

2010-03-30T13:18:53Z

Indiana University professor Fred H. Cate testifies during a Senate hearing in Philadelphia, Monday, March 29, 2010. Experts invited to speak debated whether secret video recordings should fall under the federal wiretap statute. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Copyright 2010 Indiana University on October 12, 2009, Indiana University professor Elinor Ostrom is pictured. Ostrom was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences today along with Oliver Williamson, a professor from John Edwards speaks at Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind. Edwards, who has acknowledged a federal inquiry into his campaign funds, said in a statement obtained by The Associated Press on Sun...