Archive: 05/01/2006
NASA seeks plans for education agreement
NASA says it is seeking proposals for a cooperative agreement notice, "Motivating Undergraduates in Science and Technology, or the MUST project.
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Discovery scheduled for important move
NASA officials say an important milestone for the upcoming Space Shuttle Discovery mission will occur May 12, when the shuttle is moved from its hangar.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 01, 2006 |
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Men-women life expectancy gap narrows
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.
May 01, 2006 |
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U.S. obesity levels grossly underestimated
A Harvard study suggests the prevalence of U.S. obesity has been greatly underestimated because people provide false information about themselves.
May 01, 2006 |
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Study: Co-workers hide their best ideas
Canadian scientists say if you ever asked colleagues for information and then suspected they pretended to be ignorant, you might have been right.
May 01, 2006 |
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Study: Does IQ drop as people age?
U.S. scientists are attempting to determine if perception deficits that accompany aging in many people are responsible for declines in IQ scores.
May 01, 2006 |
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Lots of options available to VoIP users
The Internet phone industry is growing at an exponential rate and today boasts more than 4 million users, more than doubling in the past year. But as the number of users increases, so does the number of providers.
May 01, 2006 |
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Nanotubes act as 'thermal Velcro' to reduce computer-chip heating
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 ...
May 01, 2006 |
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Scientists re-examine plants' role in global warming
Estimates of increased plant respiration in response to higher global temperatures may be somewhat overstated as they have not taken into account plants' ability to adjust to changing conditions, according to researchers ...
May 01, 2006 |
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Sandhill cranes make a comeback
Environmental successes can bring environmental problems and now once endangered sandhill cranes might again be hunted in Michigan.
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Scientists Find Closest Pair of Supermassive Black Holes
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 ...
May 01, 2006 |
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Polymer Nanotubes as Molecular Probes and DNA Carriers
By growing polymers on a porous aluminum oxide template, researchers at the Seoul National University in Korea have fabricated polymer nanotubes to which they can attach two different types of molecules. These new nanoscale ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
May 01, 2006 |
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The Sky is Falling
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 ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 01, 2006 |
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In Brief: Aussies might delay Telstra privatization
The planned privatization of Australian telecom major Telstra could be delayed due to regulatory uncertainties.
May 01, 2006 |
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Poll: Most prefer no job to being obese
The majority of U.S. men and women polled for Fitness magazine say they would prefer to be unemployed to being substantially overweight.
May 01, 2006 |
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