Science & Technology
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<p>When it came to eating, an upright, 2 million-year-old African hominid had a diet unlike virtually all other known human ancestors, says a study led by the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany and involving the ÀÏ¾ÅÆ·²è.</p> - <p>The California condor is chronically endangered by lead exposure from ammunition and requires ongoing human intervention for population stability and growth, according to a new study led by the University of California, Santa Cruz, and involving the ÀÏ¾ÅÆ·²è. </p>
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<p>Companies paying celebrities big money to endorse their products may not realize that negative perceptions about a celebrity are more likely to transfer to an endorsed brand than are positive ones, according to a new ÀÏ¾ÅÆ·²è study.</p>
<p>Celebrity endorsements are widely used to increase brand visibility and connect brands with celebrities’ personality traits, but do not always work in the positive manner marketers envision, according to Margaret C. Campbell of CU-Boulder Leeds School of Business, who led the study.</p>
<p>It no secret that Mars is a beaten and battered planet -- astronomers have been peering for centuries at the violent impact craters created by cosmic buckshot pounding its surface over billions of years. But just how beat up is it?</p>
<p>Really beat up, according to a CU-Boulder research team that recently finished counting, outlining and cataloging a staggering 635,000 impact craters on Mars that are roughly a kilometer or more in diameter.</p>- &±ô³Ù;±è&²µ³Ù;Ìý&±ô³Ù;/±è&²µ³Ù;
<p>For the first time, a consortium of researchers organized by the National Institutes of Health, including a ÀÏ¾ÅÆ·²è professor, has mapped the normal microbial makeup of healthy humans.</p> - <p><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/AS1yTo10e_A" width="560"></iframe></p>
<p>It no secret that Mars is a beaten and battered planet -- astronomers have been peering for centuries at the violent impact craters created by cosmic buckshot pounding its surface over billions of years. But just how beat up is it?</p> - &±ô³Ù;±è&²µ³Ù;Ìý&±ô³Ù;/±è&²µ³Ù;
<p>A team led by the ÀÏ¾ÅÆ·²è looking for organisms that eke out a living in some of the most inhospitable soils on Earth has found a hardy few.</p>
<p>A new DNA analysis of rocky soils in the Martian-like landscape on some volcanoes in South America has revealed a handful of bacteria, fungi and other rudimentary organisms called archaea, which seem to have a different way of converting energy than their cousins elsewhere in the world.</p> - &±ô³Ù;±è&²µ³Ù;Ìý&±ô³Ù;/±è&²µ³Ù;
<p>An international research team led by the ÀÏ¾ÅÆ·²è has generated the first laser-like beams of X-rays from a tabletop device, paving the way for major advances in many fields including medicine, biology and nanotechnology development.</p> - &±ô³Ù;±è&²µ³Ù;Ìý&±ô³Ù;/±è&²µ³Ù;
<p>ÀÏ¾ÅÆ·²è students and faculty have been selected to develop a remotely operable, robotic garden to support future astronauts in deep space.</p>
<p>The project is one of five university proposals selected to participate in the 2013 Exploration Habitat (X-Hab) Academic Innovation Challenge led by NASA and the National Space Grant Foundation.</p>
<p>ÀÏ¾ÅÆ·²è Professor Andrew Hamilton, doggedly determined to go where no man has gone before, continues to fascinate the public with his stunning and scientifically sound visualizations that take viewers into the guts of black holes.</p>