Archive: 04/01/2008
Desert power: A solar renaissance
What does the future hold for solar power? “Geotimes” magazine looks into more efficient ways of turning the sun’s power into electricity in its April cover story, “Desert Power: A Solar Renaissance.”
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 01, 2008 |
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Fear of messing up may cause whites to avoid blacks
Democratic consultant Donna Brazile brought home America’s reluctance to talk openly about race in a New York Times article that preceded the Barack Obama speech that now has the whole nation buzzing. In essence, she said ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 01, 2008 |
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Drug does not appear to reduce risk of heart attack or death following CABG surgery
Use of MC-1 (a naturally occurring metabolite of vitamin B6) before and for 30 days after coronary artery bypass graft surgery did not reduce the risk of heart attack or cardiovascular death, according to a JAMA study being ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Apr 01, 2008 |
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Music file compressed 1,000 times smaller than mp3
Researchers at the University of Rochester have digitally reproduced music in a file nearly 1,000 times smaller than a regular MP3 file. The music, a 20-second clarinet solo, is encoded in less than a single kilobyte, and ...
Apr 01, 2008 |
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Microwave your foods safely
For many consumers, microwaving has become the primary method of heating food, providing convenience and time savings. But a food-safety expert in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences says recent outbreaks of foodborne ...
Apr 01, 2008 |
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Researchers perform multi-century
Using state-of-the-art supercomputers, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory climate scientists have performed a 400-year high-resolution global ocean-atmosphere simulation with results that are more similar ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 01, 2008 |
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3-D images – cordless and any time
Securing evidence at the scene of a crime, measuring faces for medical applications, taking samples during production – three-dimensional images are in demand everywhere. A handy cordless device now en-ables ...
Apr 01, 2008 |
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Ready to go: mobile terahertz devices
Terahertz waves, which until now have barely found their way out of the laboratory, could soon be in use as a versatile tool. Researchers have mobilized the transmitting and receiving devices so that they can be used anywhere ...
Apr 01, 2008 |
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Rising prison population an undeclared national crisis
Nearly a month after a published study on increasing U.S. prison population revealed more than 1 in 100 American adults are behind bars, two University of Michigan professors are aiming to elevate the public debate on prison ...
Apr 01, 2008 |
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Octopus sex more sophisticated than arm-wrestling
For decades, scientists have viewed octopuses as unromantic loners, with mating habits nearly devoid of complex behavior. But new research from the University of California, Berkeley, has found that at least ...
Biology /
Apr 01, 2008 |
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Researchers purposely damage batteries to see how much abuse they can take
Researchers in the Power Sources R&D group at Sandia National Laboratories have been driving nails into batteries, heating them to extreme temperatures, overcharging them, and putting them into some of the ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Apr 01, 2008 |
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Integrating genetic information with breast cancer risk factors may help refine prognosis
Incorporating genetic information known as gene expression signatures with clinical and other risk factors for breast cancer may help refine estimates of relapse-free survival and predicted response to chemotherapy, according ...
Apr 01, 2008 |
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The bombardier beetle, power venom, and spray technologies
The bombardier beetle is inspiring designers of engines, drug-delivery devices and fire extinguishers to improve spray technologies, writes Andy McIntosh, from Leeds University, and Novid Beheshti, of Swedish Biomimetics ...
Apr 01, 2008 |
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Some migratory birds can't find success in urban areas, study finds
New research finds fresh evidence that urbanization in the United States threatens the populations of some species of migratory birds. But the six-year study also refutes one of the most widely accepted explanations of why ...
Biology /
Apr 01, 2008 |
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Scientists identify smallest known black hole
Using a new technique, two NASA scientists have identified the lightest known black hole. With a mass only about 3.8 times greater than our Sun and a diameter of only 15 miles, the black hole lies very close ...
Apr 01, 2008 |
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