Zooming way in, technique offers close-ups of electrons, nuclei
Oct 01, 2008 |
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Providing a glimpse into the infinitesimal, physicists have found a novel way of spying on some of the universe's tiniest building blocks.Their "camera," described this week in the journal Nature, consists of a special "flaw" ...
New findings indicate HIV/AIDS pandemic began around 1900, earlier than previously thought
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Oct 01, 2008 |
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New research indicates that the most pervasive global strain of HIV began spreading among humans between 1884 and 1924, suggesting that growing urbanization in colonial Africa set the stage for the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
First detection of magnetic field in distant galaxy produces a surprise
Oct 01, 2008 |
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Using a powerful radio telescope to peer into the early universe, a team of California astronomers has obtained the first direct measurement of a nascent galaxy's magnetic field as it appeared 6.5 billion ...
When a light goes on during thought processes
Oct 01, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Thought processes made visible: An international team of scientists headed by Mazahir Hasan of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg has succeeded in optically detecting ...
Spotless Sun: Blankest Year of the Space Age
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 01, 2008 |
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Astronomers who count sunspots have announced that 2008 is now the "blankest year" of the Space Age.
The search for 'green' gold in the Amazon rain forest
Oct 01, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In a hunt for plants in the Amazon rain forest that have potential to be used for sustainable light-weight construction beams, electronic cases or other high-performance materials, Cornell ...
Canada's shores saved animals from devastating climate change 252 million years ago
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 01, 2008 |
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The shorelines of ancient Alberta, British Columbia and the Canadian Arctic were an important refuge for some of the world's earliest animals, most of which were wiped out by a mysterious global extinction event some 252 ...
Ring-cellphone concept combines style and basic functions
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 01, 2008 |
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Even though it's one of the tiniest cell phones you've probably ever seen, it would be difficult to lose this one. As its name implies, the "ring-cellphone" is worn on the finger, and includes all the components ...
Are we trading energy conservation for toxic air emissions?
Oct 01, 2008 |
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A team of Yale scientists has found that certain countries and some U.S. states stand to benefit from the use of compact fluorescent lighting more than others in the fight against global warming. Some places may even produce ...
Study shows hotels' Internet connections unsafe
Oct 01, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Travelers who use a hotel's Internet network risk the possibility of data theft, concludes a new study from Cornell's School of Hotel Administration.
Groundbreaking discovery may lead to stronger antibiotics
Biology /
Oct 01, 2008 |
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The last decade has seen a dramatic decline in the effectiveness of antibiotics, resulting in a mounting public health crisis across the world. A new breakthrough by University of Virginia researchers provides physicians ...
Cells that Avoid Suicide May Become Cancerous
Oct 01, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When a cell's chromosomes lose their ends, the cell usually kills itself to stem the genetic damage. But University of Utah biologists discovered how those cells can evade suicide and start down the path ...
Viking mice tell tales of British Isles
Biology /
Oct 01, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The humble house mouse can tell us a lot about the history of colonisation on the British Isles according to research published today in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological ...
Sensing the Energy: Calibrating the LCLS
Oct 01, 2008 |
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The Linac Coherent Light Source will generate X-rays 10 billion times brighter than any source before it. Being the first of its kind, the LCLS has presented engineers with a number of unique technical hurdles. ...
Water table depth tied to droughts in Great Plains
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 01, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Will there be another “dust bowl” in the Great Plains similar to the one that swept the region in the 1930s? It depends on water storage underground. Groundwater depth has a significant effect ...
