<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.congoo.com/css/rss.css" type="text/css" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Science News - Congoo</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/feed/newschannelsfeed.aspx?chid=11&amp;catid=271</link><description>News Feed for - Science</description><item><title>Marine marvels found in the darkness of the deep</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96263449&amp;Channel_ID=11&amp;Category_ID=271</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T08:37:00</pubDate><description>A rich and surprisingly diverse array of marine animals has been discovered living in total darkness in the deepest parts of the Atlantic where no sunlight ever penetrates. They range from a giant octopus-like </description><source>The Independent</source></item><item><title>Restored machine to explore mysteries of Big Bang</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96180217&amp;Channel_ID=11&amp;Category_ID=271</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T06:49:00</pubDate><description>In this photo released by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009, scientists react in the CERN Control Center after successfully restarting the Large Hadron Collider, </description><source>SINA</source></item><item><title>Seakinetics Corporation Moves a Step Closer in Acquiring Land Parcel for Massive </title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96210635&amp;Channel_ID=11&amp;Category_ID=271</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T08:10:00</pubDate><description>Set_Cookie( 'test', 'none', '', '/', '', '' (Get_Cookie( 'test')) else _uacct sfHover hidePopUp(which) _cfscriptLocation makeRequest(url) sendtofriend(el) (!emailCheck('emailFriendfrom', forname)) (!alphaCheck('Friendfrom', </description><source>TradingMarkets</source></item><item><title>Large Hadron Collider back online</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96112291&amp;Channel_ID=11&amp;Category_ID=271</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T10:46:00</pubDate><description>The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is back online after successfully completing its first test since the 6bn project was suspended for vital repairs around 14 months ago. The European Organisation for Nuclear </description><source>V3.co.uk</source></item><item><title>Nanofibrous biologic laminates replicate the form and function of the annulus fibrosus</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96299584&amp;Channel_ID=11&amp;Category_ID=271</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T11:31:00</pubDate><description>Nature Materials 8, 986 (2009). doi:10.1038/nmat2558     Authors: Nandan L. Nerurkar, Brendon M. Baker, Sounok Sen, Emily E. Wible, Dawn M. Elliott &amp; Robert L. Mauck</description><source>Nature Materials</source></item><item><title>Artificial photosynthesis: Solar to fuel</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96299552&amp;Channel_ID=11&amp;Category_ID=271</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T11:30:00</pubDate><description>Nature Materials 8, 929 (2009). doi:10.1038/nmat2578     Authors: Andrea Listorti, James Durrant &amp; Jim Barber    Artificial photosynthesis is an appealing strategy for producing sustainable fuels, if </description><source>Nature Materials</source></item><item><title>A better world for science?</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96299534&amp;Channel_ID=11&amp;Category_ID=271</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T11:30:00</pubDate><description>Nature Materials 8, 917 (2009). doi:10.1038/nmat2582     Virtual worlds such as Second Life present an intriguing premise for scientific use. But are the benefits sufficiently clear for widespread uptake?</description><source>Nature Materials</source></item><item><title>Over 17,000 exotic new marine species 'discovered'</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96282270&amp;Channel_ID=11&amp;Category_ID=271</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T07:07:00</pubDate><description>LONDON: Scientists have discovered 17,000 exotic new species in a decade-long exploration which has also revealed their alien ways to eke out a living in the perpetual darkness of the deep ocean. Among </description><source>Times of India</source></item><item><title>Charles Darwin: Writing Origin 'like confessing a murder'</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96282110&amp;Channel_ID=11&amp;Category_ID=271</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T07:05:00</pubDate><description>For similar stories, visit the Interviews and Evolution Topic Guides What was it like, coming up with the idea that changed the world? Like confessing a murder. The emotional and physical struggle you </description><source>New Scientist</source></item><item><title>DNA replication: Cohesin on the fork</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96278446&amp;Channel_ID=11&amp;Category_ID=271</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T06:21:00</pubDate><description>Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 10, 814 (2009). doi:10.1038/nrm2810     Author: Kim Baumann    Sister chromatid cohesion ensures proper chromosome segregation and is mediated by the cohesin complex </description><source>Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology</source></item><item><title>Exploring protein fitness landscapes by directed evolution</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96278441&amp;Channel_ID=11&amp;Category_ID=271</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T06:21:00</pubDate><description>Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 10, 866 (2009). doi:10.1038/nrm2805     Authors: Philip A. Romero &amp; Frances H. Arnold    Directed evolution circumvents our profound ignorance of how a protein's </description><source>Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology</source></item><item><title>Corn Genome Sequencing Complete</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96014650&amp;Channel_ID=11&amp;Category_ID=271</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T06:44:00</pubDate><description>Scientists will develop real world applications from knowledge. Results of the Maize Genome Sequencing Project, the first comprehensive gene map of North American Corn, will be made available to the public </description><source>Nebraska Farmer</source></item><item><title>Final journey to the Hubble Space Telescope</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96265780&amp;Channel_ID=11&amp;Category_ID=271</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T04:18:00</pubDate><description>(Media-Newswire.com) - The news release you are looking for was removed from our index. Please use our search function to find the new location.</description><source>Media Newswire</source></item><item><title>Popular Science and Popular Mechanics Magazines Honor Kepler</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96267244&amp;Channel_ID=11&amp;Category_ID=271</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T02:53:00</pubDate><description>Artist's concept of Kepler in the distant solar system. Image credit: NASA/JPL NASA's planet-hunting Kepler space telescope has earned the 2009 Best of What's New Grand Award from Popular Science and </description><source>Jet Propulsion Laboratory</source></item><item><title>New fossils reveal a world full of crocodiles</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=95993457&amp;Channel_ID=11&amp;Category_ID=271</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T02:15:00</pubDate><description>A flesh model of the head of PancakeCroc (above) and its fossil lower jaw are seen in an image courtesy of National Geographic. PancakeCroc was a fish eater with a 3-foot-long, pancake-flat skull. It </description><source>People's Daily Online</source></item><item><title>Extreme particle acceleration in the microquasar Cygnusâ??X-3</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96263954&amp;Channel_ID=11&amp;Category_ID=271</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T01:32:00</pubDate><description>Extreme particle acceleration in the microquasar Cygnusâ??X-3     Nature advance online publication 22 November 2009. doi:10.1038/nature08578     Authors: M. Tavani, A. Bulgarelli, G. Piano, S. Sabatini, </description><source>Nature</source></item><item><title>First test for record solar plane</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=95977264&amp;Channel_ID=11&amp;Category_ID=271</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T00:41:00</pubDate><description>The prototype of a solar-powered plane destined for a record round-the-world journey has made its first trip across a runway. On Thursday, the plane covered at least 2km at speeds of up to five knots </description><source>Digital Silence</source></item><item><title>Gene mutation 'key to glioma brain cancer growth'</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96270987&amp;Channel_ID=11&amp;Category_ID=271</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T08:07:00</pubDate><description>A mutated gene, called IDH1, could be the key to the development of some types of glioma brain tumour. The latest study, by US firm Agios Pharmaceuticals, has revealed that the mutation leads to hugely </description><source>Sify</source></item><item><title>Awards honour science and social welfare innovations</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96291377&amp;Channel_ID=11&amp;Category_ID=271</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T08:20:00</pubDate><description>VietNamNet Bridge  The annual KOVA Awards were presented yesterday, November 22, to three groups, four individuals and five students, in recognition of their outstanding contributions to society in 2009. </description><source>VietNamNet Bridge</source></item><item><title>Dark galaxy may be crashing into Milky Way</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96228051&amp;Channel_ID=11&amp;Category_ID=271</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T07:43:00</pubDate><description>New calculations by a team of astronomers have indicated that a dark galaxy may be crashing into our own Milky Way. In 2008, a cloud of hydrogen with a mass then estimated at about 1 million suns was </description><source>Sify</source></item><item><title>Student experiment with pets to win school science fair</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96261601&amp;Channel_ID=11&amp;Category_ID=271</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T07:15:00</pubDate><description>(McClatchy-Tribune Informa) Mission Valley Elementary Science Fair winners:  Third grade:  First place -- Tatum Aigner  Second place -- Colton Turner  Third place -- Travis Reinecke  Honorable Mention </description><source>Individual.com</source></item><item><title>Solar power technology takes its next step</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96299622&amp;Channel_ID=11&amp;Category_ID=271</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T11:31:00</pubDate><description>SRS Energy has created 'sole power' tiles, which are coated with thin-film flexible photovoltaic cells. The roof tiles are a dark blue colour to maximise the absorption of sunlight, and will be available </description><source>Nanotechnology News</source></item><item><title>454 Life Sciences expands sequencing portfolio</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96299015&amp;Channel_ID=11&amp;Category_ID=271</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T11:21:00</pubDate><description>454 Life Sciences, a Roche company, announced at the recent Association of Molecular Pathology Annual Meeting in Florida a series of developments that expand the company's sequencing portfolio. The company </description><source>Laboratorytalk</source></item><item><title>Firstscience Science Fact of the Day - 23 Nov 2009</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96231804&amp;Channel_ID=11&amp;Category_ID=271</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T10:03:00</pubDate><description>Nostradamus wrote 942 quatrains (4 line long poems) in his lifetime which he organised into centuries. Many people believe that he could predict the future and that these poems contain cryptic information </description><source>Firstscience.com</source></item><item><title>Science &amp; the Public: PCBs: When green paint isnâ??t â??greenâ??</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96286298&amp;Channel_ID=11&amp;Category_ID=271</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T08:02:00</pubDate><description>NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 22. It seems we're literally painting the air -- from the Great Lakes to Antarctica -- with persistent pollutants. Including at least one whose safety has never been studied. Last year, </description><source>Science News Online</source></item></channel></rss>