Archive: 03/01/2007
Study: The color red impacts achievement
U.S. and Germany scientists have discovered the color red can affect how people function, keeping them from performing at their best on tests.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 01, 2007 |
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Why do birds migrate?
Why do some birds fly thousands of miles back and forth between breeding and non-breeding areas every year whereas others never travel at all?
Biology /
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Probing Question: What's killing the honey bees?
Far away from the snowdrifts outside our windows, spring is unfolding in California as the almond trees begin to bloom. Missing from the party are millions of honey bees typically trucked in to pollinate the ...
Biology /
Mar 01, 2007 |
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How can you strengthen thigh muscles at home?
Strengthening thigh muscles is one way of minimizing your chances of knee injury, says Mike Hahn, a Montana State University biomechanics researcher.
Mar 01, 2007 |
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Cassini Returns Never-Before-Seen Views of the Ringed Planet
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured never-before-seen views of Saturn from perspectives high above and below the planet's rings. Over the last several months, the spacecraft has climbed to higher and higher ...
Mar 01, 2007 |
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Hands-off shoe fitting
A new technology puts an end to the tedious business of buying shoes: Customers can now try on a variety of models in front of a virtual mirror without changing their shoes. They can navigate through the collection ...
Mar 01, 2007 |
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Mobile motivators
Whether you are learning a foreign language, training for the city marathon or want to lose five kilos – the digital motivator eCoach will help you to achieve your personal goals. The system runs on any cell ...
Mar 01, 2007 |
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New study rewrites evolutionary history of vespid wasps
Scientists at the University of Illinois have conducted a genetic analysis of vespid wasps that revises the vespid family tree and challenges long-held views about how the wasps’ social behaviors evolved.
Biology /
Mar 01, 2007 |
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Peruvian citadel is site of earliest ancient solar observatory in the Americas
Archeologists from Yale and the University of Leicester have identified an ancient solar observatory at Chankillo, Peru as the oldest in the Americas with alignments covering the entire solar year, according ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 01, 2007 |
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Hurricane can form new eyewall and change intensity rapidly
Hurricanes can gain or lose intensity with startling quickness, a phenomenon never more obvious than during the historic 2005 hurricane season that spawned the remarkably destructive Katrina and Rita.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 01, 2007 |
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Digger reveals Tiga's aqua secrets
Being claustrophobic and allergic to wasps on an island potholed with caves and swarming with giant wasps hasn't deterred UQ archaeologist Ian Lilley from his latest dig. Associate Professor Lilley has been ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 01, 2007 |
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AMD Demonstrates Accelerated Computing Solution that Breaks Teraflop Barrier
AMD today showcased a single-system, Accelerated Computing platform that breaks the teraflop computing barrier. Organizations are ultimately expected to be able to apply this technology to a wide range of scientific, ...
Mar 01, 2007 |
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Single genetic defect causes early heart disease
A team of researchers from the United States and Iran has identified a genetic mutation that causes early onset coronary artery disease in members of a large Iranian family. The genetic mutation leads to heart disease by ...
Mar 01, 2007 |
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Individuals and populations differ in gene activity levels, not just genes
Much like how a person's genetic code differs from other individuals, the level at which those genes are activated in the body differs from one person to another, scientists have learned. And though some of those differences ...
Mar 01, 2007 |
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Model simulates atomic processes in nanomaterials
Researchers from MIT, Georgia Institute of Technology and Ohio State University have developed a new computer modeling approach to study how materials behave under stress at the atomic level, offering insights that could ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 01, 2007 |
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