Physicists find way to 'see' extra dimensions
Feb 02, 2007 |
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Peering backward in time to an instant after the big bang, physicists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have devised an approach that may help unlock the hidden shapes of alternate dimensions of the universe.
Ocean Planets on the Brink of Detection
Feb 02, 2007 |
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Imagine a world with no land at all, merely the impenetrable depths of a seething ocean. Models of planet formation predict the existence of such worlds, even though our own solar system has none. Indeed, ...
Report: Human activity fuels global warming
Feb 02, 2007 |
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Today's release of a widely anticipated international report on global warming coincides with a growing clamor within the United States to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and prevent the potentially devastating consequences ...
Researchers find substantial wind resource off Mid-Atlantic coast
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 02, 2007 |
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The wind resource off the Mid-Atlantic coast could supply the energy needs of nine states from Massachusetts to North Carolina, plus the District of Columbia--with enough left over to support a 50 percent increase ...
Metals discovery goes against the grain
Feb 02, 2007 |
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Life in the laboratory is a stroll along the beach for two UQ researchers, after discovering metals bear exciting similarities to granular materials like sand.
To the Edge of Melting
Feb 02, 2007 |
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Picking a relatively simple system, SLAC scientists and their collaborators used advanced tools to see the very first instants of change in a solid brought to the edge of melting. Their results appear in the ...
Erupting mud volcano
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 02, 2007 |
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University of Aberdeen research supports the suggestion that the eruption of the Indonesian mud volcano Lusi, which has been erupting for more than 200 days, was caused by drilling for hydrocarbons.
Professor on the scent of the world's smelliest flower
Biology /
Feb 02, 2007 |
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A University of Sussex biochemist will brave the stench of the world's smelliest - and largest - flower, the Titan arum, when he gives a series of public lectures about the plant's special heat-producing properties.
Folded sediment unusual in Sumatran Tsunami area
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 02, 2007 |
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Sediment folding may have added to the exceptionally large tsunami that struck Sumatra on Dec. 26, 2004, according to an international team of geologists. "Tsunami models consider the rebound of the plate during the earthquake, ...
Brain's reward circuit activity ebbs and flows with a woman's hormonal cycle
Feb 02, 2007 |
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Fluctuations in sex hormone levels during women's menstrual cycles affect the responsiveness of their brains' reward circuitry, an imaging study at the National Institute of Mental Health, a component of the National Institutes ...
Common blood pressure drug reduces progressive muscle degeneration in mice
Medicine & Health / Medications
Feb 02, 2007 |
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Scientists supported in part by the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) and National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) have found ...
NASA Moon-Impactor Mission Passes Major Review
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 02, 2007 |
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NASA's drive to return astronauts to the moon and later probe deeper into space achieved a key milestone recently when agency officials approved critical elements of a moon impact mission scheduled to launch in October 2008. ...
Pills or papayas? Survey finds Americans want healthful foods, not more medicines
Medicine & Health / Medications
Feb 02, 2007 |
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If you thought Americans would rather pop a pill to treat illness than make major diet changes, think again. A new survey shows the vast majority would rather change their diets—including trying a vegetarian diet—than use ...
Boys learn better when creative approaches to teaching are used
Feb 02, 2007 |
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With the new school year just beginning, educational experts at the University of Western Sydney say boys can enjoy as much social and academic success as girls if educators employ creative approaches to teaching and learning.
Tiny 'gas-flow' sensor has industrial, environmental applications
Feb 02, 2007 |
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Researchers at Purdue University have shown how to create a new class of tiny sensors for applications ranging from environmental protection to pharmaceutical preservation.
