Scientists crack 40-year-old DNA puzzle and point to ‘hot soup’ at the origin of life
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A new theory that explains why the language of our genes is more complex than it needs to be also suggests that the primordial soup where life began on earth was hot and not cold, as many scientists believe.
Evolutionary Accident Probably Caused The Worst Snowball Earth Episode, Study Shows
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For several years geologists have been gathering evidence indicating that Earth has gone into a deep freeze on several occasions, with ice covering even the equator and with potentially devastating consequences for life. ...
X-ray technology to shed new light on ancient stone inscriptions
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In an unusual collaboration among scientists and humanists, a Cornell University team has demonstrated a novel method for recovering faded text on ancient stone by zapping and mapping 2,000-year-old inscriptions ...
Cracking the Perception Code
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The brain may interpret the information it receives from sensory neurons using a code more complicated than scientists previously thought, according to new research from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and Cold ...
Fossil Fuels May Decrease Earth's Natural Capacity to Store Carbon
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Rising fossil fuel emissions may actually decrease the Earth's natural capacity to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, according to a newly published study--which means that the warming of Earth's climate could accelerate ...
Human cerebellum, cortex age in different ways
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Researchers have found that the two primary areas of the human brain appear to age in radically different ways. The cortex used in higher-level thought undergoes more extensive changes with age than the cerebellum, which ...
Caltech Scientists Create Tiny Photon Clock
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In a new development that could be useful for future electronic devices, applied physicists at the California Institute of Technology have created a tiny disk that vibrates steadily like a tuning fork while it is pumped with ...
TUNAMOS project uses magnetic nano-oscillator to solve limitations of integrated oscillators in wireless devices
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The project "TUnable NAno-Magnetic OScillators for integrated transceiver applications" aims at demonstrating the breakthrough concept spin torque in a nano-scale microwave integrated oscillator for application in wireless ...
Scientists weather a space storm to find its origin
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A team of researchers from the UK and France used SOHO, ACE and the four Cluster spacecraft to study a huge eruption on the Sun, tracing its progress from birth to when it reached Earth.
Busy Atlantic storm season predicted
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U.S. storm forecasters say they expect 11 to 14 tropical storms with most developing into hurricanes over the remainder of the 2005 Atlantic storm season.
Report finds online attacks shift toward profit
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IBM reported that virus-laden emails and criminal driven security attacks increased by 50 percent in the first half of 2005 - underscored by a significant rise in 'customized' attacks on the government, financial services, ...
Optoelectronic integration overcoming processor bottlenecks
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One of the biggest obstacles facing computer systems today is the problem of memory latency, the time a computer must wait to access the data stored in memory despite faster processor speeds. Two demonstrators ...
NASA to redesign space vehicles
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NASA engineers reportedly will abandon the basic space shuttle design in the next generation of U.S. spacecraft to make them safer and more powerful.
A new spin on silicon
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'Orbitronics' could keep silicon-based computing going after today's technology reaches its limits For about 40 years, the semiconductor industry has been able to continually shrink the electronic components on silicon ch ...
Apple Intros 'Mighty Mouse'
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Apple today introduced Mighty Mouse, its next generation mouse with several innovative new features that make using a Mac even more powerful and easy. Mighty Mouse features the revolutionary Scroll Ball tha ...
