Archive: 11/02/2006
Scientists investigate unusual ocean conditions along the U.S. West Coast
For two years in a row, ocean life along the U.S. West Coast has suffered from the delayed appearance of conditions that normally support a highly productive marine environment. Instead of the usual upwelling of cold, nutrient-rich ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 02, 2006 |
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VLA Discovers Giant Rings Around Galaxy Cluster
Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope have discovered giant, ring-like structures around a cluster of galaxies. The discovery provides tantalizing new information ...
Nov 02, 2006 |
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Earth: The Lone Pale Blue Dot?
A recent photo from the Cassini spacecraft shows the mighty planet Saturn, and if you look very closely between its wing-like rings, a faint pinprick of light. That tiny dot is Earth bustling with life as we ...
Nov 02, 2006 |
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Icelandic swarms may provide hints on ecosystems
Wisconsin ecologists have ventured into remote parts of Iceland to explore a startling phenomenon in which trillions of gnat-like bugs periodically rise up to form hovering swarms so thick they resemble waves ...
Biology /
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Scientists: New phylum sheds light on ancestor of animals, humans
Genetic analysis of an obscure, worm-like creature retrieved from the depths of the North Atlantic has led to the discovery of a new phylum, a rare event in an era when most organisms have already been grouped into major ...
Biology /
Nov 02, 2006 |
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Z machine melts diamond to puddle
Sandia’s Z machine, by creating pressures more than 10 million times that of the atmosphere at sea level, has turned a diamond sheet into a pool of liquid.
Nov 02, 2006 |
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Chronic stress affects attention by altering neuronal growth in the brain
Anxiety and depression can make a person feel as if he’s battling his own brain, complete with wounds and scars. Traumatic events — war, divorce, the death of a loved one — can trigger these disorders, and ...
Nov 02, 2006 |
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Nantero Announces Routine Use of Nanotubes in Production CMOS Fabs
Nantero, Inc., a nanotechnology company using carbon nanotubes for the development of next-generation semiconductor devices, has resolved all of the major obstacles that had been preventing carbon nanotubes from being used ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Nov 02, 2006 |
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Neuron Cell Stickiness May Hold Key to Evolution of the Human Brain
The stickiness of human neurons may have been a key factor in why the human brain evolved beyond the brains of our primate relatives. In a study comparing the genomes of humans, chimpanzees, mice and other vertebrates, researchers ...
Nov 02, 2006 |
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Political-Genetic Theory Is Studied
(AP) -- Politics may not be in the blood, but it could be in the genes. That's the theory a team of political scientists and geneticists is trying to prove with extensive studies of twins, genes and brain scans.
Nov 02, 2006 |
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Robotic Boat Geared to Simplify Life for Scientists
Though it looks like a miniature yellow catamaran, a craft designed by professors and students at Rowan University is not your father’s toy boat.
Nov 02, 2006 |
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Funnel in the eye: Signal focusing increases photosensitivity
In poor light the eyes of mice react like some digital cameras: they reduce their resolution while at the same time increasing their sensitivity. Specialists in the retina focus the information of several light sensor cells ...
Nov 02, 2006 |
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Researchers invent 'flashy' new process to turn soy oil, glucose into hydrogen
Anyone who's overheated vegetable oil or sweet syrup knows that neither oil nor sugar evaporates--oil smokes and turns brown, sugar turns black, and both leave a nasty film of carbon on the cookware. Now, a University of ...
Nov 02, 2006 |
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U of T home to first molecular printer in Canada
Think of it as a miniscule dot-matrix printer that uses biological ink. Students and faculty at the University of Toronto’s Institute for Optical Sciences (IOS) will have access to the Nano eNabler, the first benchtop molecular ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Nov 02, 2006 |
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Next energy technologies may mimic nature
New technologies will play a major role in providing the world's growing population with the energy it will need in the coming decades--that was one of the messages of the MIT Museum's second of three "Soap Box" events devoted ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Nov 02, 2006 |
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