More Solid than Solid: A Potential Hydrogen-Storage Compound
Apr 02, 2008 |
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One of the key engineering challenges to building a clean, efficient, hydrogen-powered car is how to design the fuel tank. Storing enough raw hydrogen for a reasonable driving range would require either impractically ...
Black hole found in enigmatic Omega Centauri
Apr 02, 2008 |
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A new discovery has resolved some of the mystery surrounding Omega Centauri, the largest and brightest globular cluster in the sky. Images obtained with the Advanced Camera for Surveys onboard the NASA/ESA ...
New fish has a face even Dale Chihuly could love
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Apr 02, 2008 |
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A fish that would rather crawl into crevices than swim, and that may be able to see in the same way that humans do, could represent an entirely unknown family of fishes, says a University of Washington fish ...
Is DNA repair a substitute for sex?
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Apr 02, 2008 |
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Birds and bees may do it, but the microscopic animals called bdelloid rotifers seem to get along just fine without sex, thank you. What’s more, they have done so over millions of years of evolution, resulting ...
Scientists reshape Y chromosome haplogroup tree gaining new insights into human ancestry
Apr 02, 2008 |
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The Y chromosome retains a remarkable record of human ancestry, since it is passed directly from father to son. In an article published online today in Genome Research scientists have utilized recently described genetic variat ...
'Astro-comb' helps search for Goldilocks planet
Apr 02, 2008 |
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Harvard scientists have unveiled a new laser-measuring device that they say will provide a critical advance in the resolution of current planet-finding techniques, making the discovery of Earth-sized planets ...
Darwin told us so: Researcher shows natural selection speeds up speciation
Biology /
Apr 02, 2008 |
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In the first experiment of its kind conducted in nature, a University of British Columbia evolutionary biologist has come up with strong evidence for one of Charles Darwin’s cornerstone ideas – adaptation to the environment ...
Bon MOT: Innovative atom trap catches highly magnetic atoms
Apr 02, 2008 |
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A research team from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Maryland has succeeded in cooling atoms of a rare-earth element, erbium, to within two millionths of a degree of ...
Promising new nanotechnology for spinal cord injury
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Apr 02, 2008 |
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A spinal cord injury often leads to permanent paralysis and loss of sensation below the site of the injury because the damaged nerve fibers can't regenerate. The nerve fibers or axons have the capacity to grow again, but ...
Brain DNA 'remodeled' in alcoholism
Apr 02, 2008 |
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Reshaping of the DNA scaffolding that supports and controls the expression of genes in the brain may play a major role in the alcohol withdrawal symptoms, particularly anxiety, that make it so difficult for alcoholics to ...
Hypnosis - the key to unlocking the delusional mind?
Apr 02, 2008 |
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Researchers at Macquarie University have developed an original new approach to the study of delusions, using hypnosis to temporarily create typical delusional beliefs in otherwise non-delusional people.
'Focused' Solar Explosions Get Hotter
Apr 02, 2008 |
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A NASA-funded researcher has discovered that solar flares -- explosions in the atmosphere of the sun -- get much hotter when they stay "focused".
Researchers confirm dead zone off Texas coast since 1985
Apr 02, 2008 |
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Researchers at Texas A&M University have confirmed for the first time that a “dead zone” has existed off the Texas coast for at least the past 23 years and will likely remain there, causing potential harmful effects to marine ...
Were Assyrian rulers the forefathers of today's CEOs?
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 02, 2008 |
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Tel Aviv University archaeologists find ancient Jerusalem may be a model for today's corporations.
CO2 emission reduction assumptions overly optimistic, says study
Apr 02, 2008 |
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Reducing global emissions of carbon dioxide this century is going to be more challenging than society has been led to believe, according to a new research commentary article appearing April 3 in Nature.
