Music moves brain to pay attention, study finds
Aug 01, 2007 |
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Using brain images of people listening to short symphonies by an obscure 18th-century composer, a research team from the Stanford University School of Medicine has gained valuable insight into how the brain sorts out the ...
Scientists Make Flexible, Polymer-Based Data Storage
Aug 01, 2007 |
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The future of the electronics industry is believed by many to lie in organic materials – polymers that conduct electricity. Because they are ultra lightweight, flexible, and low-cost, they may lead to a whole new class of ...
Electricity from body heat
Aug 01, 2007 |
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Making calls from a cell phone with no battery, using just the warmth of your hand? Perhaps that’s no more than a pipe dream right now. But new circuits are already making it possible to harness body heat ...
Ultraclean Combustion Technology For Electricity Generation Fires Up in Hydrogen Tests
Aug 01, 2007 |
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An experimental gas turbine simulator equipped with an ultralow-emissions combustion technology called LSI has been tested successfully using pure hydrogen as a fuel – a milestone that indicates a potential ...
The memory of water is a reality
Aug 01, 2007 |
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A special issue of the journal Homeopathy, journal of the Faculty of Homeopathy and published by Elsevier, on the “Memory of Water” brings together scientists from around the world for the first time to publish new data, ...
Using a magnet to tune a magnet
Aug 01, 2007 |
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An international research team, led by scientists at the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN), has found a way to switch a material’s magnetic properties from ‘hard’ to ‘soft’ and back again – something ...
Automation of Nanotech Manufacturing May Be Ahead
Aug 01, 2007 |
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In an assist in the quest for ever smaller electronic devices, Duke University engineers have adapted a decades-old computer aided design and manufacturing process to reproduce nanosize structures with features ...
Coelacanth fossil sheds light on fin-to-limb evolution
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Aug 01, 2007 |
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A 400 million-year-old fossil of a coelacanth fin, the first finding of its kind, fills a shrinking evolutionary gap between fins and limbs. University of Chicago scientists describe the finding in a paper ...
'Asian Brown Cloud' Particulate Pollution Amplifies Global Warming
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Aug 01, 2007 |
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Scientists have concluded that the global warming trend caused by the buildup of greenhouse gases is a major contributor to the melting of Himalayan and other tropical glaciers. Now, a new analysis of pollution-filled ...
MIT team cooks up simple fuel recipe
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MIT student Jules Walter has seen firsthand the impact of deforestation in his native Haiti: Nearly 98 percent of the island's forests are gone, and more trees are being cut down every year.
Scientists find why red beans and rice can be nauseating
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People cry foul when fowl is undercooked, but what about red beans and rice? Scientists have discovered how lectins, a family of proteins believed to be a natural insecticide that is abundant in undercooked legumes and grains, ...
Concern Increasing About Opportunity Rover
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 01, 2007 |
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Rover engineers are growing increasingly concerned about the temperature of vital electronics on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity while the rover stays nearly inactive due to a series of dust storms ...
Purdue 'milestone' a step toward advanced sensors, communications
Aug 01, 2007 |
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Engineers at Purdue University have shown how to finely control the spectral properties of ultrafast light pulses, a step toward creating advanced sensors, more powerful communications technologies and more ...
Researchers find gene for left-handedness
Aug 01, 2007 |
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An international group of scientists, led by a team from the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics at Oxford University, have discovered a gene that increases an individual’s chances of being left-handed. A report of the ...
Researchers find family of 'on switches' that cause prostate cancer
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Researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center have discovered how genes turn on the switch that leads to prostate cancer.
