Stealth sharks may patrol the world's seas
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Several groups around the world have gained approval to develop implants that can monitor and control the behavior of a wide range of animals.
Souping Up Superfluidity Calculations
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“In quantum mechanics, very seldom do you solve exactly problems involving more than one particle,” explains Massimo Boninsegni, Canada Research Chair at the University of Alberta. Boninsegni and his colleagues, Nikolay Prokof’ev ...
Think solar not nuclear for the energy of the future, say UK scientists
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Solar rather than nuclear energy should be the UK government's priority in planning future energy production, according to scientists writing this week in the journal Nature Materials.
New twist in classical mechanics finds way around 225-year-old paradox
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In the rarefied sphere of classical mechanics, more can sometimes be elegantly less. In a paper that will be published March 1 in the proceedings of the Royal Society, two engineers at the Viterbi School of Engineering off ...
New nanotech process could increase computer memory
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A team of scientists from the Department of Physics at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, in collaboration with colleagues from the Argonne National Laboratory (USA) and the Spintec laboratory (Grenoble, ...
Physicist's algorithm simplifies biological imaging -- and also solves Sudoku puzzles
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Cornell physicist Veit Elser has been engrossed recently in resolving a pivotal question in biological imaging. So he hasn't had much time for brainteasers and number games.
World faces challenge as technologies lengthen life expectancies, biologist says
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In the 21st century, state-of-the-art anti-aging technologies may extend human lifespans at an unprecedented rate, bringing with them a host of social and economic challenges, says biologist Shripad Tuljapurkar of Stanford ...
Advance hastens practicality of superconductivity
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Nobody completely understands superconductors. So fathom how James S. Schilling, Ph.D., led a team that makes the phenomenon work better. Schilling, a professor of physics in Arts & Sciences at Washington Un ...
Commitment to marriage, emotional engagement key to wives' happiness
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A study by University of Virginia sociologists W. Bradford Wilcox and Steven L. Nock finds that the single most important factor in women's marital happiness is the level of their husbands' emotional engagement -- not money, ...
Scientists capture the speediest ever motion in a molecule
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The fastest ever observations of protons moving within a molecule open a new window on fundamental processes in chemistry and biology, researchers report today in the journal Science.
People Use Separate Brain Mechanisms to Make Ambiguous and Risky Choices
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Distinct regions of the human brain are activated when people are faced with ambiguous choices versus choices involving only risk, Duke University Medical Center researchers have discovered.
Sex: Why bother? Scientists probe evolutionary mysteries
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What advantage did sex offer when it first appeared and why does sex persist in modern organisms, stopping them from becoming asexual again? One University of Houston professor thinks he may have uncovered some new clues ...
Study: Bronze disk is astronomical clock
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A mysterious Bronze Age disk has reportedly been identified by a Hamburg, Germany, scientist as being one of the world's first astronomical clocks.
The Evolution Of Right And Left Handedness
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A study from the April issue of Current Anthropology explores the evolution of handedness, one of few firm behavioral boundaries separating humans from other animals. "The predominant right-handedness of humans has been noted ...
Study of 2004 Tsunami Disaster Forces Rethinking of Theory of Giant Earthquakes
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The Sumatra-Andaman earthquake of December 26, 2004, was one of the worst natural disasters in recent memory, mostly on account of the devastating tsunami that followed it. A group of geologists and geophysicists, including ...
