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Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Humans have the capacity to regenerate tissue after suffering an injury, but many animals have the ability to regenerate whole limbs after an amputation. A group of UK researchers decided to look into this ability in tadpoles, which can regrow a tail that has been severed. Their results proved to be somewhat counter intuitive—showing that a molecule previously thought to be harmful to cells is involved in the process. According to...

Brett Smith for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Understanding biological diversity has been the key to learning how ecosystems around the world function in a sustainable manner. A team of American and Australian scientists has taken this philosophy and applied it to a section of the ecosystem that has largely been ignored, the microbial communities that lie just below our feet. “We’ve been walking around on soil since the beginning of time and never really knew what was going...

SAN RAMON, Calif., Dec. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Mike Leon, a former Creative Director for the famed advertising agency J. Walter Thompson and an Art Director for Doyle Dane Bernbach, has joined AMF Media Group as the agency's new Creative Director. A two-time National Emmy winner, Mike's career has spanned more than 20 years and includes a well-known list of clients such as Volkswagen, IBM, Exxon, Ford Trucks, Proctor & Gamble, Sprint, AutoZone, and Bayer Chemical. Mike brings...

redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online While it has long been assumed plant and animal life took a long time to recover following the largest mass extinction to date, researchers from the University of Zurich have discovered new evidence to suggest they may have bounced back sooner than previously believed. The mass extinction in question took place at the end of the Permian geological period some 252 million years ago, and scientists had long believed it took roughly...

HAMILTON, N.J., Dec. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The premier networking and sourcing event for the chemical industry, InformEx USA, has expanded its educational offerings with more than 40 sessions being presented during the global chemical event, February 19-22, 2013, in Anaheim, CA. Addressing key areas of business development and market trends, the conference program will provide unprecedented insight and industry knowledge. (Photo:...

NEW YORK, Dec. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Dominican Republic has joined the group of countries participating in the prestigious international beauty contest with the addition of "Miss Dominican Nature" and will also participate in the "International Tourism Film Festival". The announcement was made by Dr. Garis Silega, president of the organization that will stage both events in New York City from December 4-7, 2013. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121218/NY31662 )...

[Watch Video: Paul Davies on the Origins of Life] Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online People have been trying to understand the origins of life on Earth through scientific means since the concept of science began and a pair of Arizona State University researchers suggests in a new report that we’ve been approaching the question incorrectly, almost from the beginning. In a paper titled, "The algorithmic origins of life,” Paul Davies and Sara Walker proposed...

WALTHAM, Mass., Dec. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- InnoCentive, Inc., the global leader in open innovation, crowdsourcing, and prize competitions, and Scientific American, the leading authoritative publication for science in the general media, today announced a partnership for the Scientific American Open Innovation Pavilion, an online hub where science enthusiasts will be able to help solve global scientific problems. Scheduled to go live in the Spring of 2013, the Scientific American...

NASA [ Watch The Video ] Careful observers of the new "Black Marble" images of Earth at night released this week by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have noticed bright areas in the western part of Australia that are largely uninhabited. Why is this area so lit up, many have asked? Away from the cities, much of the night light observed by the NASA-NOAA Suomi NPP satellite in these images comes from wildfires. In the bright areas of western Australia,...

Newly-released, full-length training video from Nova Polymers presents all the proper steps and procedures for painting NovAcryl®, the world’s leading substrate for ADA Braille and accessible room identification signage. Fairfield, New Jersey (PRWEB) December 06, 2012 A new training video that simplifies understanding how to paint NovAcryl®, the world’s leading substrate for ADA Braille and accessible room identification signage, is now available from Nova Polymers. Painting...