Rice's single-pixel camera takes high-res images
Oct 02, 2006 |
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For all their ease and convenience, there are few things more wasteful than digital cameras. They're loaded with pricy microprocessors that chew through batteries at a breakneck pace, crunching millions of ...
The Branes Behind String Theory
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“The thing about our universe,” says David Lyth, a professor at Lancaster University in the United Kingdom, “is that it is not completely uniform. This has been a bit of a puzzle to cosmologists.” He explains that there are ...
Alaskan storm cracks giant iceberg to pieces in faraway Antarctica
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 02, 2006 |
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A severe storm that occurred in the Gulf of Alaska in October 2005 generated an ocean swell that six days later broke apart a giant iceberg floating near the coast of Antarctica, more than 8,300 miles away. ...
Researchers Create Improved Magnetic-Semiconductor Sandwich
Oct 02, 2006 |
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Researchers at Ohio University have created an improved magnetic semiconductor that solves a problem spintronics scientists have been investigating for years.
Thermal imaging shatters arousal gender gap myth
Oct 02, 2006 |
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A new McGill University study that used thermal imaging technology for the first time ever to measure sexual arousal rates has turned the conventional wisdom that women become aroused more slowly than men on its head.
Stellar vampires unmasked
Oct 02, 2006 |
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Astronomers have found possible proofs of stellar vampirism in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae. Using ESO's Very Large Telescope, they found that some hot, bright, and apparently young stars in the cluster ...
Intelligent Nanoscale Bioreactors for Drug Delivery
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Oct 02, 2006 |
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In a powerful demonstration of how to build a multifunctional, smart nanoscale drug delivery system, researchers at the University of Basel have created a drug-loaded nanocontainer that targets specific cells and releases ...
Scientists find 40 new species in Amazon
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Oct 02, 2006 |
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An international team of scientists risked their lives to discover 40 new species of plants and animals in a recent exploration of the Amapa region of Brazil.
Scientists study men who pay for sex
Oct 02, 2006 |
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British researchers say nearly half of the men who pay for sex already have a partner.
Alternative energy: A new way to take a bite of sunlight
Oct 02, 2006 |
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Flash those pearly whites in a dazzling smile and you showcase a natural light collector mechanism hidden inside the internal structure of dentin - the hard, bone-like material that forms the main part of teeth.
Nobel Prize for Medicine: Silence is golden for US laureates (Update 3)
Oct 02, 2006 |
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Two US scientists, Andrew Fire and Craig Mello, on Monday won the Nobel Medicine Prize for discovering how to silence malfunctioning genes, a breakthrough which could lead to an era of new therapies to reverse ...
Researchers demonstrate how white blood cells cannibalize virus-infected cells
Oct 02, 2006 |
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Researchers at the Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute (VGTI) at Oregon Health & Science University have demonstrated how certain white blood cells literally eat virus-infected cells while fighting disease at the microscopic ...
Record ozone loss during 2006 over South Pole
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 02, 2006 |
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Ozone measurements made by ESA's Envisat satellite have revealed the ozone loss of 40 million tons on 2 October 2006 has exceeded the record ozone loss of about 39 million tons for 2000.
Mars journey: Unsolved technical problems
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 02, 2006 |
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A U.S. scientist says human missions to Mars face technical challenges well beyond those faced during the exploration of the moon.
L.A. billboards say AIDS a 'gay' disease
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Oct 02, 2006 |
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Stunning passersby, billboards have sprung up around Southern California declaring, "HIV is a gay disease," adding the tag line "Own It; End It."
