Solitons: Next wave in electronics?
May 01, 2006 |
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Harvard scientists have solved the puzzle of how to generate a special form of wave in small electronic devices, allowing the electrical equivalent of the pulses of light that carry signals through optical ...
The Sky is Falling
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 01, 2006 |
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Up on the Moon, the sky is falling. "Every day, more than a metric ton of meteoroids hits the Moon," says Bill Cooke of the Marshall Space Flight Center's Meteoroid Environment Office. They literally fall out ...
New Evidence Suggests Need to Rewrite Bronze Age History
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 01, 2006 |
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Separated in history by 100 years, the seafaring Minoans of Crete and the mercantile Canaanites of northern Egypt and the Levant (a large area of the Middle East) at the eastern end of the Mediterranean were never considered ...
Water running uphill a cooling idea
May 01, 2006 |
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A University of Oregon researcher has discovered a way to make water run uphill.
Study says coffee helps in persuasion
May 01, 2006 |
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Researchers in Australia say if you want to persuade anyone to agree with your line of thinking, serving coffee to that person may help.
First neutrons produced by DOE's Spallation Neutron Source
May 01, 2006 |
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One of the largest and most anticipated U.S. science construction projects of the past several decades has passed its most significant performance test. The Department of Energy's Spallation Neutron Source, ...
Scientists Find Closest Pair of Supermassive Black Holes
May 01, 2006 |
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Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) radio telescope have found the closest pair of supermassive black holes ever discovered in the Universe -- a duo of monsters ...
Networking: Is that bank's URL legitimate?
May 01, 2006 |
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Computer-security professionals at the weekend were working on what is being described as a just-emerging IT problem -- the kind which, if the pros are correct, potentially could imperil all e-commerce across ...
Study: Co-workers hide their best ideas
May 01, 2006 |
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Canadian scientists say if you ever asked colleagues for information and then suspected they pretended to be ignorant, you might have been right.
Iron oxide nanoparticles may help detect, treat tumors
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
May 01, 2006 |
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A new technique devised by MIT engineers may one day help physicians detect cancerous tumors during early stages of growth. The technique allows nanoparticles to group together inside cancerous tumors, creating masses with ...
Nanotubes act as 'thermal Velcro' to reduce computer-chip heating
May 01, 2006 |
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Engineers have created carpets made of tiny cylinders called carbon nanotubes to enhance the flow of heat at a critical point where computer chips connect to cooling devices called heat sinks, promising to help keep future ch ...
Shared theories on thought could lead to smart machines
May 01, 2006 |
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Machines can respond to simple electronic commands such as "stop," "start" and "grind," but they are not very good at figuring out complex orders or unstated common sense.
Station Crew Will Try Orbit Boost Again
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 01, 2006 |
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Russian experts will try again this Thursday to lift the International Space Station to a higher orbit to ease future rendezvous maneuvers and reduce the risk of collisions with orbiting debris.
U.S. obesity levels grossly underestimated
May 01, 2006 |
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A Harvard study suggests the prevalence of U.S. obesity has been greatly underestimated because people provide false information about themselves.
Men-women life expectancy gap narrows
May 01, 2006 |
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Women may have longer life expectancy than men but that gap in the United States has now narrowed to five years, the shortest in 50 years.
