Physicists persevere in quest for inexhaustible energy source
Jun 01, 2006 |
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As gas prices soar and greenhouse gases continue to blanket the atmosphere, the need for a clean, safe and cheap source of energy has never seemed more pressing. Scientists have long worked to meet that need, ...
Government blocks wind farm plans
Jun 01, 2006 |
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The U.S. government has ordered work stopped on more than a dozen wind farms, saying the giant turbines might interfere with military radar.
Raiders of the lost dimension
Jun 01, 2006 |
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Ancient Chinese warriors are yet again helping scientists from the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and their collaborators unravel some of the mysteries of the natural world.
Chemists forge a new form of iron
Jun 01, 2006 |
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An international team of chemists has discovered a new and unexpected form of iron, a finding that adds to the fundamental understanding of an element that is among the most abundant on Earth and that, in nature, ...
Sleeping drug breaks man's 3-year coma
Jun 01, 2006 |
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A 28-year-old South African man who has been comatose since an accident three years ago is able to wake up with the unlikely help of a sleeping medication.
Droids on the ISS
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 01, 2006 |
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Six years ago, MIT engineering Professor David Miller showed the movie Star Wars to his students on their first day of class. There's a scene Miller is particularly fond of, the one where Luke Skywalker spars ...
Research studies risks of plastic chemical
Jun 01, 2006 |
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U.S. researchers say a chemical used in plastic products such as baby bottles and microwave cookware permanently altered genes in newborn lab rats.
Tide machines may be major power sources
Jun 01, 2006 |
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The Norwegian firm, Statkraft, has proposed creating underwater tide-harnessing machines to provide up to 3 percent of the European Union's electricity.
Promising new metamaterial could transform ultrasound imaging
Jun 01, 2006 |
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Using the same principles that help create a guitar's complex tones, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have developed a new material that holds promise for revolutionizing the field of ultrasound imaging.
Why we could all do with a siesta
Jun 01, 2006 |
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The Spaniards may have been right all along – a siesta after a hearty lunch is natural, new research suggests. Scientists at The University of Manchester have for the first time uncovered how brain cells or ‘neurons’ that ...
Tropical rain, magnetism have same physics
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 01, 2006 |
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U.S. scientists say they have found magnetism and the onset of intense tropical rainfall share the same underlying physics.
Floating pile of rubble a pristine record of solar system's history
Jun 01, 2006 |
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A small, near-Earth asteroid named Itokawa is just a pile of floating rubble, probably created from the breakup of an ancient planet, according to a University of Michigan researcher was part of the Japanese ...
Free radical cell death switch identified
Jun 01, 2006 |
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U.S. scientists say they've found a molecular pathway that might cause stroke, diabetes, heart and neurodegenerative disease and even the aging process.
Biobarcode Nanoparticles Enable Multiplexed DNA Detection
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jun 01, 2006 |
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Given that cancer is a disease that results from gene mutations, the development of high-throughput schemes for detecting specific DNA sequences would have a dramatic effect on cancer research, cancer detection, and the monitoring ...
Nano World: Nanotube toxicity exams differ
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jun 01, 2006 |
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How toxic carbon nanotubes are on cells apparently depends on what lab tests are used to examine them, experts told UPI's Nano World.
