Musicians use both sides of their brains more frequently than average people
Oct 02, 2008 |
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Supporting what many of us who are not musically talented have often felt, new research reveals that trained musicians really do think differently than the rest of us. Vanderbilt University psychologists have found that professionally ...
Counterintuitive physics may help everyone drive home quicker
Oct 02, 2008 |
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If you're trying to drive to a destination as quickly as possible, you might think that knowing the traffic conditions would help you choose the quickest route for yourself. Traffic reports and new GPS technologies ...
Flexi display technology is now
Oct 02, 2008 |
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Rigid television screens, bulky laptops and still image posters are to be a thing of the past as new research, published today, Thursday, 2 October, in the New Journal of Physics, heralds the beginning of a technological revolu ...
Models of Eel Cells Suggest Electrifying Possibilities
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Oct 02, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers long have known that great ideas can be lifted from Mother Nature, but a new paper by researchers at Yale University and the National Institute of Standards and Technology takes ...
When seeing IS believing
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 02, 2008 |
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New research published in the journal Science explains why individuals seek to find and impose order on an unruly world through superstition, rituals and conspiratorial explanations by linking a loss of control to indivi ...
Coastlines could be protected by 'invisibility cloak'
Oct 02, 2008 |
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Scientists at the University of Liverpool have tested an 'invisibility cloak' that could reduce the risk of large water waves overtopping coastal defences.
Space voyaging rock reveals insight into detecting life on other planets
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 02, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Intelligent life from other planets would be able to tell that Earth is inhabited if they had come into contact with a space voyaging piece of Orkney rock, scientists have revealed.
Scientists explore putting electric cars on a two-way power street
Oct 02, 2008 |
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Think of it as the end of cars' slacker days: No more sitting idle for hours in parking lots or garages racking up payments, but instead earning their keep by providing power to the electricity grid.
'Little bang' triggered solar system formation
Oct 02, 2008 |
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For several decades, scientists have thought that the Solar System formed as a result of a shock wave from an exploding star—a supernova—that triggered the collapse of a dense, dusty gas cloud that contracted ...
NASA Spacecraft Finds the Sun is Not a Perfect Sphere
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 02, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists using NASA’s RHESSI spacecraft have measured the roundness of the sun with unprecedented precision. They find that it is not a perfect sphere. During years of high solar activity ...
CSIRO's UltraBattery goes global in the auto sector
Oct 02, 2008 |
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The CSIRO-invented UltraBattery is set to have a global impact on greenhouse gas emissions after Japan's Furukawa Battery Company, which has already begun production of the UltraBattery, and US manufacturer, East Penn, today ...
This is your grid on brains
Oct 02, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Managing power networks in the future may involve a little more brain power than it does today, if researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology succeed in a new project that ...
Arctic sea ice hits second-lowest extent, likely lowest volume
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 02, 2008 |
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Arctic sea ice extent during the 2008 melt season dropped to the second-lowest level since satellite measurements began in 1979, reaching the lowest point in its annual cycle of melt and growth on Sept. 14, ...
HP HDX 18t Notebook Is Now Available
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 02, 2008 |
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HP has just recently announced their HDX 18t Premium Series laptop. HP's HDX 18t is powered by Intel´s latest Core 2 Duo or Core 2 Quad processor. The HDX 18t is equipped with up to 8GB of RAM, NVIDIA GeForce ...
New study on properties of carbon nanotubes, water could have wide-ranging implications
Oct 02, 2008 |
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A fresh discovery about the way water behaves inside carbon nanotubes could have implications in fields ranging from the function of ultra-tiny high-tech devices to scientists' understanding of biological processes, according ...
