Closest Look Ever at the Edge of a Black Hole
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have taken the closest look ever at the giant black hole in the center of the Milky Way. By combining telescopes in Hawaii, Arizona, and California, they detected structure at ...
Fermilab physicists discover 'doubly strange' particle
Sep 03, 2008 |
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Physicists of the DZero experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have discovered a new particle made of three quarks, the Omega-sub-b (Ωb). The particle contains ...
Next stop: The fourth dimension
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How did the universe come to be? What is it made of? What is mass? Can science prove that there are other dimensions? We may have answers soon.
Invisibility undone: Chinese scientists demonstrate how to uncloak an invisible object
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Harry Potter beware! A team of Chinese scientists has developed a way to unmask your invisibility cloak. According to a new paper in the latest issue of Optics Express, the Optical Society's (OSA) open-access journal, certai ...
Trichoplax genome sequenced -- 'rosetta stone' for understanding evolution
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Yale molecular and evolutionary biologists in collaboration with Department of Energy scientists produced the full genome sequence of Trichoplax, one of nature's most primitive multicellular organi ...
Zen training speeds the mind's return after distraction, brain scans reveal
Sep 03, 2008 |
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Experienced Zen meditators can clear their minds of distractions more quickly than novices, according to a new brain imaging study.
New probe could aid quantum computing
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(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT researchers may have found a way to overcome a key barrier to the advent of super-fast quantum computers, which could be powerful tools for applications such as code breaking. Ever since ...
Cell division study resolves 50-year-old-debate, may aid cancer research
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A new study at Oregon State University has finally resolved a controversy that cellular biologists have been arguing over for nearly 50 years, with findings that may aid research on everything from birth defects and genetic ...
Warmer seas linked to strengthening hurricanes
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
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The theory that global warming may be contributing to stronger hurricanes in the Atlantic over the past 30 years is bolstered by a new study led by a Florida State University researcher. The study will be ...
Bad sign for global warming: Thawing permafrost holds vast carbon pool
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Permafrost blanketing the northern hemisphere contains more than twice the amount of carbon in the atmosphere, making it a potentially mammoth contributor to global climate change depending on how quickly it thaws.
Hearing restoration may be possible with cochlear repair after transplant of human cord blood cells
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According to an Italian research team publishing their findings in the current issue of Cell Transplantation (17:6), hearing loss due to cochlear damage may be repaired by transplantation of human umbilical cord hematopoietic stem c ...
New research challenges long-held assumptions of flightless bird evolution
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Large flightless birds of the southern continents – African ostriches, Australian emus and cassowaries, South American rheas and the New Zealand kiwi – do not share a common flightless ancestor as once believed.
Substance found in fruits and vegetables reduces likelihood of the flu
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Mice given quercetin, a naturally occurring substance found in fruits and vegetables, were less likely to contract the flu, according to a study published by The American Physiological Society. The study also found that stressful ...
Amateur Astronomers See Perseids Hit the Moon
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 03, 2008 |
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One, the old-fashioned way: Find a dark place with starry skies and count the meteors streaking overhead. Two, the new way: Find a dark place with starry skies and then completely ignore the meteors. Instead, ...
Loneliness undermines health as well as mental well-being
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 03, 2008 |
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Feeling connected to others is vital to a person's mental well-being, as well as physical health, research at the University of Chicago shows.
