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21st Dec 2009

Soggy Super-Earths and Deep Sea Volcanoes


Ben Valsler
A wild Koala

In this NewsFlash we hear about a breakthrough in cancer genetics, how Jason the submersible caught a deep sea volcano exploding and the discovery of a very watery super-earth.  Plus, the evolution of the Koala, what our memory for dance moves tells us about human cognition, and the important differences between leg bones and skull bones!

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Tracking genetic changes in cancer

The first comprehensive analyses of cancer genomes have been published in the journal Nature this week. The research, led by teams at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, has been called “truly groundbreaking” by Cancer Research UK.  What’s so exciting about this work is not just that they cat...

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Deep Water Submarine Volcanoes: First Eruption Footage

For the first time, scientists have caught on camera an erupting underwater volcano. The spectacular footage shows enormous glowing bubbles of lava, 1m across, bursting into the Pacific Ocean and lava flowing across the sea floor over 1km below the surface. It’s a type of volcanic eruption – calle...

(c) Anynobody

Wet World - Planet made of Water

Over the last few years astronomers have discovered over 400 planets outside our solar system. Most of these are large gas giant planets similar to Jupiter or Uranus and most of them orbit close to their parent stars. This probably reflects the fact that planets of this type are much easier to ...

(c) The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. DVD-ROM, 2002. ISBN 3936122202. Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH.

Cultural difference between left and right

The way we remember dance moves reveals the incredible flexibility of the human brain, according to research published in Current Biology this week. Daniel Haun of the Max Planck Research Group for Comparative Cognitive Anthropology studied the way that different cultures remember dance moves, insp...

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Why koalas took to eucalyptus

Koalas, those dozy, lovable emblems of Australia, look like teddy bears but being marsupials are only very distantly related to real bears. A new study sheds light on the little-known evolution of koalas, revealing that the their ancestors didn’t have the specialised teeth and jaws that would have a...


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(c) Didier Descouens

Why Skull Bone is Special Bone

Ian McKay discusses the differences between the bone in our limbs and our skull...




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