This week's episode of Science Now highlights new primate fossil discoveries in Tanzania, the first screening method to detect the early presence of ovarian cancer, a polymer material that more efficiently utilizes solar energy and finally researchers head to Spain this summer to gather the most ...

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The Chemistry of Burgers This video, one in a six-part "Cheeseburger Chemistry" theme, uses the cooking of hamburgers to explain the structure of myoglobin, its role in making red meat red, the effects of heat on myoglobin's structure and meat's color, and the Maillard -- or browning ...

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Game Changer Research Aims to Forecast Tornadoes Tornadoes claim hundreds of lives and cause billions of dollars in damages in the United States. With NSF support, computer scientist Amy McGovern at the University of Oklahoma is working to find answers to key questions about tornado formation. ...

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Software being developed at the University of Michigan works like a stoplight to help manage the traffic created by wireless transmissions.

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Drug-Resistant Bacteria As disease-causing bacteria becomes increasingly resistant to antibiotics, scientists like Erin Carlson from Indiana University are turning to natural sources to find new medicines.

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3-D Proteins: Getting the Big Picture Proteins are the workhorses of cells. With support from NSF, University of Arkansas biochemist James Hinton has been researching the structure and function of proteins for decades. Back in the 1990s, he had a vision to study these huge protein structures in ...

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"Glows in the Dark," by Matt Misner, polymer science and engineering. Thin films of polymers find uses in many applications, ranging from microelectronics to protective coatings on displays. Sometimes, though, the polymer doesn't coat a surface well and it can de-wet, or break up, ...

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"Visualizing The Bible." The first illuminated bibles were produced in the early Middle Ages by monks who painstakingly detailed illustrations for their sacred verse. Chris Harrison, a doctoral student at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pa., and Christoph R?mhild of the ...

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Sea horses get their exceptional flexibility from the structure of their bony plates, which form its external armor. The plates slide past each other as the creature moves. Shown at left is an image from a micro CT-scan of the animal, revealing the sea horses skeleton, as well as its bony ...

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An artists conception of a small satellite galaxy being pulled into a super-massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. There is growing evidence that, several million years ago, the center of the Milky Way galaxy was the site of all manner of celestial fireworks. A pair of ...

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A thunderstorm looms over a soybean field at Tanguro Ranch in Mato Grosso, Brazil. This location was the primary field site of a study by researchers at Brown University of three soybean growing regions--the state of Iowa, Mato Grosso in Brazil and Buenos Aires in Argentina--that focused on the ...

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William Ausich (left), a professor in the School of Earth Sciences at The Ohio State University (OSU), and Christina O'Malley (right) study fossils of ancient aquatic sea animals called crinoids. Here, O'Malley, who completed this work to earn her doctoral degree, holds a modern crinoid. OMalley ...

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These colorful 350-million-year-old fossils are different species of an aquatic sea animal known as a crinoid. Geologists from The Ohio State University (OSU) discovered organic compounds sealed within the pores of these fossilized animal skeletons. The discovery of these fossils, which were ...

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Close up of the on-chip super absorber developed by engineers at the University at Buffalo (UB) which catches, and ultimately absorbs, each frequency of light at slightly different places in a vertical direction (as pictured), thus catching a "rainbow" of wavelengths. The ...

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Atomic model of rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus (RHDV) capsid. Simulations carried out using the Blue Waters petascale supercomputer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) have determined the structure of RHDV (belonging to the genus Lagovirus), which causes a ...

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