Poisonous volcanic gas caused world's largest mass extinction, study
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The research, published in the journal Geology, reveals vital clues about the mass extinction at the end of the Permian period, 250 million years ago, when mammal-like reptiles known as synapsids roamed the ea ...
First experiments on national ignition facility validate computer simulations on road to ignition
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Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have successfully conducted an important round of successful laser experiments at the National Ignition Facility (NIF), validating key computer simulations and theoretical ...
Poison + water = hydrogen. New microbial genome shows how
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Take a pot of scalding water, remove all the oxygen, mix in a bit of poisonous carbon monoxide, and add a pinch of hydrogen gas. It sounds like a recipe for a witch's brew. It may be, but it is also the preferred environment ...
David R. Smith Shares Descartes Award for Material that Reverses Light’s Properties
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David R. Smith, a physicist formerly at the University of California, San Diego, has been awarded the European Union’s Descartes Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research for developing at UCSD a new class of composite ...
Samsung Develops Largest Flexible LCD Panel
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Samsung Electronics announced that it has developed the world's largest transmissive TFT LCD (thin-film transistor, liquid crystal display), with sufficiently high resolution to display digital television ...
Oxygen in Ancient Atmosphere Rose Gradually to Modern Levels
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The history of life on Earth is closely linked to the appearance of oxygen in the atmosphere. The current scientific consensus holds that significant amounts of oxygen first appeared in Earth's atmosphere some ...
Super-fast quantum search achieved with individual atoms
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Researchers at the University of Michigan have been able to use a small quantum computer consisting of two atoms to do a super-fast data base search. This same system could someday be scaled to a much larger ...
Physicists measure 'long' distances with picometer accuracy
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A new laser-based method for measuring millimeter distances more accurately than ever before--with an uncertainty of 10 picometers (trillionths of a meter)--has been developed and demonstrated by a physicist ...
A first: Hydrogen atoms manipulated below surface of palladium crystal
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For the first time, scientists have manipulated hydrogen atoms into stable sites beneath the surface of a palladium crystal, creating a structure predicted to be important in metal catalysts, in hydrogen storage ...
Tropical Atlantic Cooling and African Deforestation Correlate to Drought, Report Scientists
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Against the backdrop of the Montreal Summit on global climate being held this week, an article on African droughts and monsoons, by a University of California, Santa Barbara scientist and others, which appears in the December ...
Taipei 101 may be causing earthquakes
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Experts disagree on whether Taipei 101, the world's tallest building in Taipei, Taiwan, might be the cause of earthquakes.
Facebook connecting more than students
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The Facebook, the fashionable online college social directory, may be connecting more than fellow classmates. With the growing popularity of the Web site, and the sometimes controversial content on student's profiles, schools ...
New species of diatom discovered
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Lake Superior has a new native resident. It’s been hanging around the shore for years, but until now it was regarded as an intercontinental drifter, not a homegrown local. So say Rebecca Bixby of the University of Georgia ...
Voyages to the Sun
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Humanity's epic voyages to the Moon are well known, the stuff of history. But what about voyages to the Sun? Though they do not involve human spacecraft, those voyages are no less epic. And on the occasion ...
Research Urges Drivers to Put Down the Cell Phone
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Many of us use our cell phones while driving. We try to be careful. We keep our eyes on traffic and try to maintain a safe distance from the car in front of us while we talk on the phone. There’s no harm, right? Two researchers ...
