Engineers create 'optical cloaking' design for invisibility
Apr 02, 2007 |
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Researchers using nanotechnology have taken a step toward creating an "optical cloaking" device that could render objects invisible by guiding light around anything placed inside this "cloak."
It's never too late to get it back! Aging interrupted
Apr 02, 2007 |
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Much research has shown that reduced calorie intake can increase health and longevity. Professor Stephen Spindler (University of California) and his collaborators* have discovered that reducing calorie intake later in life ...
Nanobubbles exist, and are more stable than previously thought
Apr 02, 2007 |
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When William Ducker, a professor at the University of Melbourne in Australia started experiments on so-called nanobubbles that form as a gas state on the boundary between liquid and gas, he fully expected to ...
Cannabis could hold the key to ending multiple sclerosis misery
Apr 02, 2007 |
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Researchers investigating the role of cannabinoids - chemical substances contained within cannabis – in the treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS), have found they could significantly enhance therapy, not only by reducing nerve ...
Examination of radiation left from birth of universe could alter theories
Apr 02, 2007 |
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Using relic radiation from the birth of the universe, astrophysicists at the University of Illinois have proposed a new way of measuring the fine-structure constant in the past, and comparing it with today.
Researchers Synthesize Brightest Fluorescent Particles Ever
Apr 02, 2007 |
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Clarkson University Physics Professor Igor Sokolov and his team have discovered a method of making the brightest ever synthesized fluorescent silica particles.
Why the Rich Get Richer
Apr 02, 2007 |
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A new theory shows how wealth, in different forms, can stick to some but not to others. The findings have implications ranging from the design of the Internet to economics.
China's earliest modern human
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 02, 2007 |
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Researchers at WUSTL and the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) in Beijing have been studying a 40,000-year-old early modern human skeleton found in China and have determined ...
Researchers find possible caves on Mars
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 02, 2007 |
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Applying techniques used to scope out caves on Earth to probe the possibility of caves on Mars is paying off.
First impressions: Computer model behaves like humans on visual categorization task
Technology / Computer Sciences
Apr 02, 2007 |
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Computers can usually out-compute the human brain, but there are some tasks, such as visual object recognition, that the brain performs easily yet are very challenging for computers. The brain has a much more ...
Diamonds are forever... diverse
Apr 02, 2007 |
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A post-doctoral fellow at McGill University has discovered that diamonds may well be forever, but their origins are not necessarily as clear-cut as commonly believed.
Novel experiments on cement yield concrete results
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Apr 02, 2007 |
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Using a brace of the most modern tools of materials research, a team from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and Northwestern University has shed new light on one of mankind’s older construction materials—cement.
Flexible electronics could find applications as sensors, artificial muscles
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Apr 02, 2007 |
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Flexible electronic structures with the potential to bend, expand and manipulate electronic devices are being developed by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and the ...
'Self-healing' house in Greece will dare to defy nature
Apr 02, 2007 |
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A high-tech villa designed to resist earthquakes by ‘self-healing’ cracks in its own walls and monitoring vibrations through an intelligent sensor network will be built on a Greek mountainside.
Are all males liars and cheaters? Yes -- if they're crayfish!
Biology /
Apr 02, 2007 |
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Intimidation and threats are common throughout society, whether it’s in the school playground, sporting arena or boardroom. Threatening behaviour is equally widespread among non-human animals. Individuals ...
