Qubits and Branes Share Surprising Features
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What do black holes and entangled particles have in common? Until about a year ago, physicists thought that the two entities existed in completely separate worlds. Then, in 2007, physicist Michael Duff from ...
Einstein was right: Unique stellar system provides 'laboratory' for testing relativity
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Researchers at McGill University's Department of Physics – along with colleagues from several countries – have confirmed a long-held prediction of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, via observations ...
Statins have unexpected effect on pool of powerful brain cells
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Cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins have a profound effect on an elite group of cells important to brain health as we age, scientists at the University of Rochester Medical Center have found. The new findings shed ...
Rubber 'snake' could help wave power get a bite of the energy market
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A device consisting of a giant rubber tube may hold the key to producing affordable electricity from the energy in sea waves.
Geologists push back date basins formed, supporting frozen Earth theory
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
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Even in geology, it's not often a date gets revised by 500 million years. But University of Florida geologists say they have found strong evidence that a half-dozen major basins in India were formed a billion ...
Woman aquires new accent after stroke
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A woman in southern Ontario is one of the first cases in Canada of a rare neurological syndrome in which a person starts speaking with a different accent, McMaster University researchers report in the July issue of the Canadian Jo ...
Looking for the Founatain of Youth? Cut your calories, research suggests
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Want to slow the signs of aging and live longer? New Saint Louis University research suggests cutting back on calories could be a promising strategy.
Mercury's surface dominated by volcanism and iron-deficiency
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
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Volcanism has played a more extensive role in shaping the surface of Mercury than scientists had thought. This result comes from multispectral imaging data gathered in January 2008 by MESSENGER, the latest ...
Parasite vaccines within reach
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Even though parasites are complex creatures, the mammalian immune response to them is surprisingly simple, leading University of California, Berkeley, researchers to predict that creating vaccines for parasitic ...
New antibiotic beats superbugs at their own game
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The problem with antibiotics is that, eventually, bacteria outsmart them and become resistant. But by targeting the gene that confers such resistance, a new drug may be able to finally outwit them. Rockefeller ...
Acidifying oceans add urgency to CO2 cuts
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
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It's not just about climate change anymore. Besides loading the atmosphere with heat-trapping greenhouse gases, human emissions of carbon dioxide have also begun to alter the chemistry of the ocean—often called the cradle ...
Researchers run rings round cell division
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A puzzle in the control of cell division, one of the most fundamental processes in all biology, has been unravelled by Oxford University researchers.
Visualizing atomic-scale acoustic wavesin nanostructures
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Acoustic waves play many everyday roles - from communication between people to ultrasound imaging. Now the highest frequency acoustic waves in materials, with nearly atomic-scale wavelengths, promise to be ...
Researchers discover new pathway for methane production in the oceans
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
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A new pathway for methane production has been uncovered in the oceans, and this has a significant potential impact for the study of greenhouse gas production on our planet. The article, released in Nature Geoscience, reveal ...
Coffee Grounds Perk up Compost Pile With Nitrogen
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Coffee grounds can be an excellent addition to a compost pile. The grounds are relatively rich in nitrogen, providing bacteria the energy they need to turn organic matter into compost.
